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[–] 33 points 7 months ago (8 children)

US Christian’s don’t give a fuck about the pope. Probably most aren’t Catholic anyway. And even some of US Catholics (likely in the south and midwest) don’t give a fuck what the pope says either.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    There’s an evolving strain of US Catholicism, exemplified by weirdos like JD Vance, who like the aesthetic of Catholicism (especially the Deus Vult thing) without really caring about any of the actual Catholic beliefs. It’s more like they have a childish misunderstanding of Catholicism as just being a more serious Christian. Which is not uncommon a misunderstanding in the south/Midwest, oddly enough - the desire for fundies to create a coalition to fight abortion in the 70’s/80’s really ended a lot of the more typical anti-Catholicism of the south.

    Similar to the “American Orthodox,” which is the same idea with more of a Russian flavor.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    American Protestantism was a huge mistake

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think wha you meant to say is that American conservatism was a mistake. Not like Luther had any idea when was nailing his 99 thesis’s to the door that centuries later American conservatives would be so unscrupulous that they would weaponize the ignorance of the congregations to build an unholy malicious political coalition.

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