And Catholics are still a very significant voting block for Republicans (of course quite a few are likely single issue but they specifically might take the pope’s views a bit more seriously as well than more liberal Catholics)
Many Catholics currently feel politically lost, as weird as that is. You have so many "Catholics" running around DC, but few of them can or will regurgitate any of the teachings of the Church, Biden being the most recent prominent example.
Many are hopeful that JD Vance might finally fill that gap, but atheists and Evangelicals will probably keep their alliance growing rather than permit traditional Catholicism to have a revival politically.
Koran gets a bad rap, but some parts of the bible are just horrific.
Had it been a modern day manuscript it would have been seen as a post-hoc rationalization of genocidal domination of one tribe over others.
Of course then come the game of 'dont take it literally and its all a metaphor something something'
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202...
"When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.
If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you."
The choice that is offered between slavery and genocide. This is going to be downvoted (already has) but I am just quoting the Bible.
You probably can thank Christian Zionism and sola scriptura for people forgetting about Jesus while talking about the OT endlessly.
Both of those heresies truly derive from a sense of individual automony and authority, placing the individual nearly equal with God
Israel is actively destabilizing the region. They are even caught helping funding HAMAS.
pstuart•3h ago
And this, my friends, is one of the many reasons why I spend too much of my time tracking the bat shit crazy stuff these religious nut cases go on about -- because they're waging a holy war today against non-believers.
It must be emphasized: these people would be fine with exterminating non-believers. I would like to be wrong about this, but I've seen enough to know that a sizeable amount would relish the chance.
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arter45•1h ago
This is pretty crazy especially when you consider that "No one knows the day or hour when these things will happen". Jesus is saying that not even the angels know when the world is going to end, and now a bunch of people not only say they know when this will happen, but even go so far as to say that you can cause such an event by bombing countries and somehow advancing that plan? It's not just a matter of just vs injust war, it feels more like an attempt from a group of people, who claim to believe in God, to try to force God's hand and speed up the process.
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wqaatwt•38m ago
One might have assumed that being an immoral degenerate and a hardcore Christian of any type at the same time might have been incompatible, but alas.