No, no, I believe you. And no worries; I'm as much at fault for leaving anonymous commenting enabled. (I mean, it's not like anyone who doesn't already know me reads this lj...) I think the RC Church is starting to be split along the same fault lines as is the Episcopal/Anglican Church. Only in the RC case it's internal and largely organic, while in the E/AC case, it's fundies coming in from outside and actively trying to destroy an entire denomination because it's "too" liberal.
When I was a crazy Pentecostal they told me that the Catholics had a prophesy that the next pope would be evil. How cool would that be? Especially if people recognized that. I wonder how much influence the RC church actually has on people's votes and things. They take credit for boning Kerry, but I think Kerry boned Kerry.
Oh Kerry definitely boned Kerry. That's what you get for sucking Karl Rove's cock when you're supposed to be running against everything he stands for.
But everything I've seen leads me to believe the RC church has a *lot* of influence on people's votes. If I'm remembering correctly, the Vatican didn't even have an embassy in the States until the '70s, but when the pope visited D.C. in '08 I had to take a 45-minute detour on my way home because they shut down the streets outside of his embassy. That shit doesn't happen for any other foreign dignitaries, to the best of my knowledge.
Plus, they stay at their embassy residences, not across from the freaking Vice President's residence.
And I hate to say this, but I think the Pentecostals might be on to something. I mean, you can't get much more evil than a member of the Hitler Youth who "accidentally" pardons Holocaust deniers while running an organization that excommunicates members for offering mercy abortions to nine year old rape victims (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?hpw) but not her stepfather, who raped her.
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on 2009-04-14 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2009-04-16 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2009-04-17 12:56 am (UTC)But everything I've seen leads me to believe the RC church has a *lot* of influence on people's votes. If I'm remembering correctly, the Vatican didn't even have an embassy in the States until the '70s, but when the pope visited D.C. in '08 I had to take a 45-minute detour on my way home because they shut down the streets outside of his embassy. That shit doesn't happen for any other foreign dignitaries, to the best of my knowledge.
Plus, they stay at their embassy residences, not across from the freaking Vice President's residence.
And I hate to say this, but I think the Pentecostals might be on to something. I mean, you can't get much more evil than a member of the Hitler Youth who "accidentally" pardons Holocaust deniers while running an organization that excommunicates members for offering mercy abortions to nine year old rape victims (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?hpw) but not her stepfather, who raped her.
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on 2009-04-21 10:27 pm (UTC)