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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle class educated Catholics make up the largest portion of Trump supporters.

As usual, Catholics thinking they can control others.

So over their garbage behaviors. Trump Trains screaming, go after kids wearing masks screaming?

Tell me again how good god-fearing Catholics think their behavior is Christian? Not to mention child abuse over and over again. [/quote]

On the Trump point, do you have a source?  Catholics split almost evenly with a slight edge to Biden in the 2020 election (52/47) and Protestant/Other Christian went 60/39 to Trump.  I wonder what the race breakdown looks like, but it's reasonable to guess that white protestants went even more heavily to Trump.

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2020/exit-polls/presidential-election-exit-polls/[/url]

Main point being, US Catholics are hardly monolithically Republican, although some people do believe this.  If you randomly pick a Catholic out of the bin they are as likely to support Biden as Trump.  Of course the fact that any Christian could vote for Trump bogles the mind.

Also not clear where you get the idea that Catholics are disproportionately anti-mask.[/quote]

Who appointed you to judge the lives, private religious beliefs and interior lives of over a billion people?  [b]Where is your outrage at groups who think marriage between a middle aged man and a 14 year old girl is normal and acceptable?  Where is your outrage about FGM?  Where is your outrage about the millions of girls all over the world aborted just for being girls.[/b]

Face it. You don’t like what you perceive to be the Catholic Church because it’s beliefs (to the very limited extent you understand them) make you uncomfortable. Something inside you (you can call it natural law) realizes that the Church is right, and you can’t tolerate subjecting yourself to self-examination and being confronted with the probability that many beliefs you hold are objectively wrong and in some cases evil. Further, what authority do you have to judge the Catholic Church?  Are you Catholic?  Do you claim to be a victim of abuse?  If not, what’s it to you what the Church doesn’t do?  Why is one group of alleged victims grounds to vilify the Church while you ignore other classes of proven victims without a thought. The vast majority of persons who attack the Church for alleged abuse really don’t care about the abuse or its victims. They want to deprive the Church of its moral authority, to get rid of that nagging sense that the way they live their life is inconsistent with who they were created to be. What they can’t change is that the Church’s moral authority doesn’t come from the Popes, or the bishops, or the priests, or the religious. It comes from God (if you’re inclined to believe in one) and/or from the two millennia of thought, prayer, meditation, analysis, discussion and debate of Catholic philosophers and theologians. By what authority, even human authority, do you claim the right to dispute such brilliant minds, especially when you have not even studied their teachings to know how they arrived at their conclusions?
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Why would you assume that anyone outraged over the Catholic sex abuse scandal is not also outraged over the bolded?

(Also, the Church deprived itself of moral authority.)[/quote]

Well, let’s just say that posters with the vapors over alleged scandals regarding the Church are far more common than those bringing up similar issues with others.

As to your second assertion, as explained in multiple prior posts, the administration of the Church is not the Church. Further, no one, catamite, bad manager or other can deprive the Church of its moral authority. That authority does not derive from them and it does not depend on them. It is divine in origin and reflected in centuries of wisdom. [/quote]

Just because you believe something to be true or divine doesn’t make it so. I’m sorry your worldview is so narrow and your soul so desperate that you will excuse and overlook the most deplorable of crimes just to keep your fragile world in tact. [/quote]

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