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GOP and leadership is clearly anti-Catholic.
Link to tweet
OC375
(810 posts)had someone he worked with in the past that said Catholicism was a cult. He was of course was an evangelical magat.
mountain grammy
(28,975 posts)but she went ahead and voted for Romney anyway because "Obama isn't a Christian"
Maninacan
(271 posts)Knew an evangelical and they did not count Catholics as Christian.
angrychair
(12,201 posts)This guy is an idiot and his reasons for hating Catholics is more about evangelicals teaching that it's a cult.
I ripe on Catholics, especially as a survivor of SA, that they spent decades and decades hiding the SA of children by priests and some layman as a church policy and still try to this day by fighting mandatory reporting laws.
SocialDemocrat61
(7,504 posts)What they did is inexcusable.
However, ordinary catholics were not responsible. Plus there are a lot of good democrats who are catholic such as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and AOC.
OC375
(810 posts)That use to be a thing.
Cha
(318,669 posts)Who is a Force For Good.
No wonder Nazi Fascist Assholes want to Hate on Catholics.
wnylib
(25,771 posts)Cha
(318,669 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 13, 2026, 08:41 PM - Edit history (1)
doesn't seem to like him.. as in he knows what he is
wnylib
(25,771 posts)BlueKota
(5,288 posts)We need more people like him.
Cha
(318,669 posts)LeftInTX
(34,180 posts)Just curious.
I don't picture most millennials going to Mass.
Joaquin Castro used to be my congressman. (He's Gen X) I don't think he goes to church.
I know Biden and Pelosi do.
SocialDemocrat61
(7,504 posts)
LeftInTX
(34,180 posts)OC375
(810 posts)As they say... I may be crazy, but I didn't drive myself here.
BlueKota
(5,288 posts)No sexual abuse in our parrish that I was aware of but lots of beatings and humiliations took place. I have been in therapy for years because of it.
I don't go to church anymore, but I still believe in a lot of the teachings. I don't blame God or the faith, for what happened, just the twisted individuals who committed the wrong doing and those who covered for them.
peggysue2
(12,513 posts)Goes way back.
Idolatry, the Pope, the original Latin Mass, Saints, all of it. Can't tell you how many times I heard this hate growing up as a Catholic kid.
I have plenty of problems with The Church but I despise this bigotry of Catholics or any other faith.
But from other so-called Christians? It's absolutely obscene.
And no, America is NOT a Christian nation.
OC375
(810 posts)Bigotry had a large role in the movie, from a great many angles and perspectives.
One of the main disputes in the movie was too many Catholics coming to New York and competing for resources. The "Nativist" party descriptions of Catholic immigrants are nearly identical to what is said today in the immigration space. Humans have short memories when they want to, and every few generations we like to reaffirm it.
FWIW - I think our country is starting to resemble 1970's and 1980's Belfast. Still, even my Hibernian brothers and sisters mostly got their acts together. Now it's a tax haven for American businesses. The world is a funny place.
BlueKota
(5,288 posts)Though not to the extent that Black and Jewish people were.
Wednesdays
(22,442 posts)"'Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion' was an 1884 U.S. presidential campaign phrase that severely damaged Republican candidate James G. Blaine, contributing to his loss to Democrat Grover Cleveland. Uttered by Rev. Samuel D. Burchard, it attacked the Democratic Party as being allied with drinking (rum), Catholicism (Romanism), and Southern rebellion."
Srkdqltr
(9,681 posts)niyad
(131,925 posts)appropriated them.
Srkdqltr
(9,681 posts)niyad
(131,925 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,995 posts)DBoon
(24,927 posts)The early christians did not like the debauchery associated with Saturnalia, so they made it a solemn holy day.
niyad
(131,925 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,087 posts)The Romans knew very little about the Germans, and what they did think about them was mostly contempt. There's no evidence they "lifted" anything from Germanic peoples. Romans were quite capable of inventing their own religious beliefs.
It's all a racket! We've been Rick Rolled!
muriel_volestrangler
(106,087 posts)You're confusing the English word with the Christian festival. Tell someone Italian that Easter comes from an unknown Germanic festival, and they'll look at you like you're loony.
Torchlight
(6,740 posts)Imagine it looks great on a t-shirt!
Mme. Defarge
(9,005 posts)3_Limes
(497 posts)So it may be a wash.
DBoon
(24,927 posts)2na fisherman
(307 posts)He was called this by Trump after he apparently became too disloyal to him. He is the Federalist Society/Opus Dei operative who helped stack the Supreme Court in Trump's favor. But now it seems as though Leo is leaving MAGA to follow Opus Dei and make more money handling dark money for other Christo fascist goals anticipating the demise of Trump and arranging for different leaders to further institutionalize the Christian agenda of Project 2025.
Blue Full Moon
(3,407 posts)That Pope Francis ex communicated, Maria Vigano.
RainCaster
(13,648 posts)They are caught up in the notion that TSF will bring about "the end times". Netenyahu is now spewing that shit as well. This is a cult and they will follow him into hell both literally and figuratively.
LeftInTX
(34,180 posts)However, many are supportive of immigrants.
If ICE forces immigrants to have abortions, then you will have it!
debm55
(59,870 posts)RainCaster
(13,648 posts)There are enough others believing that stuff...
Nigrum Cattus
(1,294 posts)They can't agree on most anything.
That's because it's all made up fairy tales !
https://christianeducatorsacademy.com/how-many-christian-denominations-are-in-the-us-you-wont-believe-the-answer/
Mblaze
(999 posts)With a Catholic crusader meme. Deus Vult
King_Klonopin
(1,371 posts)I am a proud Catholic.
The republican/conservative movement has NEVER swayed me.
I have always seen them for what they are.
I have always held them in contempt as being just like the Pharisees whom Jesus detested and railed against.
So many are self-righteous, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, blind guides who are all bluster and pretense.
Their purpose is veiled but it cannot be hidden -- judgment, power, control, division, dominance...
never truth, humility, compassion, mercy, grace, or love which are the things most preached about by Jesus.
"You will know them by their fruits." -- Matthew 7:16
"They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders;
but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
They do all their deeds to be seen by men.
BUT woe to you, scribes and Pharisees (and republicans), hypocrites!
They love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues.
Because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves,
nor allow those who would enter to go in.
You traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte,
you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Blind guides
You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law,
justice and mercy and faith
Blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
You cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.
You are like white-washed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
You are sons of those who murdered the prophets."
(excerpts from Matthew 23:4-31)
Boomerproud
(9,267 posts)I'm trying to find a liberal parish but it's becoming more difficult. Pope Leo better watch his back because there are Cardinals who are undermining him just like Francis.
keep_left
(3,208 posts)...that has been constructed by these maniacs (EWTN, Relevant Radio, Ave Maria Radio/Ave Maria anything, as well as numerous regional and local media groups--e.g. St Michael Broadcasting in MN). EWTN's "news" show, The World Over, is often even worse than Fox News when it comes to issues of fairness, accuracy, and guest balance. Raymond Arroyo, anchorman for The World Over, apparently has a Rolodex a mile wide and an inch deep when it comes to his favored guests. The show often features the same three radtrad "experts", day after life-sucking day.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218176316#post3
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220873174#post5
King_Klonopin
(1,371 posts)At least half the Catholics here are old-school dems. You don't see any Trump stickers on cars after Mass!
Most priests here grew up in Mass, so they lean left. . . except when it comes to abortion, of course.
BlueKota
(5,288 posts)I have always felt they are the false prophets.
King_Klonopin
(1,371 posts)BlueKota
(5,288 posts)maxrandb
(17,401 posts)The ONLY stories that are acceptable to "highlight" are ones where a certain demographic, or group is "leaving the Democratic Party".
Front page news in this Orwellian shitshow are ONLY;
"Are Jews Leaving the Democrat (sic) Party?"
"Have Dems lost young black and Hispanic males?"
"Soccer Mom's leaving the Democrat(sic) Party"
"How Dems lost white women"
If the story is unfavorable to Retrumplicans, it must be phrased as:
"Polls show Democrats still unpopular with Catholic Voters, even though Retrumplican rhetoric can be "perceived" by some as anti-catholic."
ck4829
(37,631 posts)betsuni
(29,015 posts)weeping into a tub of ice cream while binge watching rom-coms all alone on Saturday night (the cat ran away and became an Independent).
And just what's so terrible about the Democratic Party? These stories are usually vague or misinformed grievances, sources probably the author's cat.
mountain grammy
(28,975 posts)ck4829
(37,631 posts)pwb
(12,622 posts)was a way to get out of training for an hour
Evangelicals don't know about Jesus, he is in the second half of the Bible and finishing a book is hard for them.
They hate the Catholic Church because they concentrate on the New Testament and Jesus Teachings.
Jesus is woke to these evangelical freaks.
BlueKota
(5,288 posts)who became a priest told a bunch of Evangelicals who were trying to argue with him about religion during lunch.
Bettie
(19,612 posts)Democrats.
The ones that are Republicans are not nice people. At. All. They gravitate to the Republicans, not because of religion, but because of their hatred and fear of those who don't think like them.
The one thing all Republicans have in common is that they hate something much more than they love anything.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,005 posts)wishstar
(5,824 posts)plus all the conservative Supreme Court Justices were raised Catholic.
blm
(114,583 posts)Huge difference.
Kingofalldems
(40,238 posts)Norrrm
(4,851 posts)Franklin (and Billy) Graham say Mormons are not Christians
According to them, Catholics are not Christians either.
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/october-2012/can-an-evangelical-christian-vote-for-a-mormon/
"We need something like what Jerry Falwell did in the 1980s. We need a moral majority-made up of Christians, Jews, Mormons, Catholics and many others of faith-to come together to take a stand for our religious freedoms and rights."
https://web.archive.org/web/20150222160421/https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/october-2012/can-an-evangelical-christian-vote-for-a-mormon/
Kingofalldems
(40,238 posts)JI7
(93,521 posts)so unlikely they will leave.
maxsolomon
(38,580 posts)99.9% of Repuke Catholics (like my Westside Cincy relatives) will never hear what this Fundy clown thinks about them.
Conservative Fundies have always whinged about the RCC but THEY ARE CRAZIER BY FAR. As crazy, or MORE crazy, than the Momos.
They're all cults - all Monotheisms.
B.See
(8,326 posts)I think (in practice at least) the GOP has long been anti-Catholic, ever since their ideological kinsmen/Klansmen donned robes and pointy hoods to terrorize Catholics (and Jews) back around the 1920's (if not before).
They're just less inclined to disguise the sentiment these days.
ChicagoTeamster
(839 posts)Not every Pope was well liked by the American public nor was every Evangelical leader but Catholics and other mainline protestant denominations never tried to ban other denominations from practicing their faith.
This is the Lenten season for Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Evangelicals make up approximately 20% of the US population but extremists like Pete Hegseth's pastor and Trump's child raping faith advisor Robert Morris hate the current Pope and the previous Pope for their messages based in Christ's love which contradict the white supremacist hate they preach.
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Prairie Gates
(7,989 posts)Fucking shitbag, that one.
LeftInTX
(34,180 posts)Bush knew how to integrate himself in the Latino community.
Several of my in-laws are Latino evangelicals. They voted for Trump in 2016. Now they hate him. It's immigration.
However, their change in stance didn't impact the 2024 election.
valleyrogue
(2,682 posts)if it weren't for traditional protestants, there wouldn't be these crackpots who twist the Bible and the Book of Revelation based on whacko nonsense by a Scotsman who came up with these notions after he fell off a horse and hit his head. If it weren't for John Nelson Darby's beliefs about things that aren't in the Bible (the Rapture) or made up interpretations of apocalyptic literature (the Book of Revelation), there wouldn't be the charismatic and Pentecostal groups that have infested Christianity over the past two centuries. If it weren't for crackpots like Rousas J. Rushdoony, who further misinterpreted the Bible for political ends, Doug Wilson wouldn't be around to pollute public discourse.
Wilson is a psychopath, just like his idol Rushdoony.