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[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel ya. It was a long process for me to realize that my Catholic family actually does not give a shit about the poor (just get a job), the sick (why do I care if they don't have health insurance?), the oppressed (slavery was actually good for black people because they learned useful skills!), the hungry (defund WIC!), the dying (assisted suicide will cause them to go to hell), wellbeing of children (defund public schools, 10k dead in Gaza, no more school lunches, take your pick), the nuclear family (200k families displaced in Gaza), the stranger (dirty immigrants), etc, etc, etc.

The list honestly goes on and on and on and it is such a shame.

[–] clutchmatic@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Their attitude, however, is not a result of Catholicism or general Christianity. Their attitude towards the weak and poor in society is just American.

[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, this is true. They say God comes first, but when they started making fun of the Pope with stupid Trumpian name-calling, I knew they had put their political party affiliation above religion