• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    On one hand I’ve seen catholics reject the poor on a lot of topics, really basically all of them. But yeah the American Civil religion seems to be developing a strong cult of Trump. What concerns me is the bishops joining that cult.

    It’s also weird because I’m so used to American fascists being super fucking protestant, and these ones kinda still are, they’re just like the bastard children of Calvinism and Franco era Spanish catholicism.

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      3 hours ago

      The protestant denominations in the populist movements really fundamentally hate Catholics and consider them unsaved pagans. That group is being used and is going to be cut out soon enough.