Among evangelical hardliners it's not an uncommon belief that the Pope is the Anti Christ, so...

For many christians, "christianity" is a social club they strongly belong to, not an actual religion. They don't give a fuck about what the bible is actually trying to convey, they just use the bible as a tackboard to pin their own beliefs and desires onto.

I suspect you think you're being satirical but as an American myself, I can guarantee there's a significant amount of Americana saying exactly this.

Many Christians: "Oh my god! This Jesus was a commie socialist woke antifa!"

Except the Epstein files...

Unfortunately multiple countries are in the process of dismantling their universal healthcare systems because reich-wingers want to emulate the USA

Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it's not really universal.

From experience in Australia: dental isn't included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it's not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for "elective" surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.

What's worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then... (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it's a fucking stupid system)

List goes on.

It's WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.

Right. There's been more than a few bad eggs on that throne lately. Occasional hope, but then back to hate.

Down with the red sox! Down with the cubs! Down with the pope!!

/s

I was actually surprised to find out LDS (mormons) are several times wealthier than the Catholic Church on paper.

Their total revenue is around $30 billion a year. They could, in theory, pay for an entire states medical costs like Utah that spends about $18 billion a year.

Spefically pointed to your comment though, the Catholic Church is already the biggest private healthcare provider in the world. It operates roughly twenty percent of healthcare facilities in the world.

protestants, including evangelicals, are not catholics and do not follow the pope

According to a 2024 Gallup survey, approximately 69% of the U.S. population—about 235 million out of 340 million people—identify as Christian.[1] A plurality of Americans identify as Protestant (45%), followed by Catholics (22%). Smaller Christian groups include members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1.5%), Eastern Orthodox Christians (0.5%), and other Christian denominations (0.4%).[1]

Everyone should just die of diseases in the street. Hysterical!

Not all of them. But far too many of them for sure.

You hate to see pedophile-on-pedophile violence like this.

To be fair, church-owned hospitals are pretty much closest thing to universal healthcare USA currently has. Government chipping in with their own universal healthcare would relieve a lot of cost, paperwork and trouble from the church.