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Yeah I considered that . My

Flavius — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:16:33 +0000

Yeah I considered that . My atheism was preceded by years of Chesterbelloc, Mauriac, Bloy , Greene, Bernanos and Dostoyevsky. Mixed with a dash of C.S. Lewis as in :

Apprentice

"Good news , sire . That pair I've been attempting to maneuver for months, I finally got them into bed together ¨

Screwtape:

¨You fool ! When will you learn that lust can turn into love?¨

I developed great respect for the ¨Commonweal ¨ Catholics I got to know when we were in that walk - up behind the Divinity School. And for their assurance their Savior would of course have saved that woman.

As for the bolshy BVM. Should it actually turn out to matter, surely if she were born ¨ free of sin ¨- and "full of grace " she ´d be indulgent of a sophomoric joke. Wouldn t she.

Wouldn´t she ?

Every wannabe conservative

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:28:00 +0000

In reply to I strongly disagree, Michael.

Every wannabe conservative superhero wears a Culture War cape, but Bannon doesn't strike me as a true believer. Faith is just a weapon in his arsenal.

Holy Kurosawa, Batman. The

moat — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:39:13 +0000

In reply to Have you forgotten Unforgiven

Holy Kurosawa, Batman. The nostalgia for lost identity kept alive through acts of ritual violence is not just for guys with fake Scottish accents anymore.

Have you forgotten Unforgiven

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:52:11 +0000

In reply to I agree. For Buchanan,

Have you forgotten Unforgiven, or "How the West was Won"? Buchanan's from the former, neat trappings, but that old style's been deconstructed, much as Blood Meridian tore what heart was supposed to be in it out and tossed it on a pile of decaying corpses. None since The Magnificent Seven has the myth been trampled so bad.

I agree. For Buchanan,

moat — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:22:07 +0000

In reply to Fair point, but I'd say that

I agree. For Buchanan, culture is like the Highlander, there can only be one.

Fair point, but I'd say that

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:21:00 +0000

In reply to A while ago, you pointed out

Fair point, but I'd say that Buchanan really favors "Western culture," which is a euphemism for white skin. Naturally, he understands western culture as Judeo-Christian, but it's the European pigmentation that's most important to him. For instance, he's much more afraid that America will be destroyed by (Christian) Latino immigrants than by radical Islamists.

Jake Tapper had an

rmrd0000 — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:53:58 +0000

In reply to Source of Trump's Power: Christian Nationalism

Jake Tapper had an interesting exchange with Conservative pastor Greg Locke about Stormy Daniels on Twitter. Locke was casting stones at hooker Stormy Daniels. Tapper reminded Locke of the way Jesus dealt with a crowd ready to stone a prostitute. Locke ignored the meaning of the Biblical passage.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-right-wing-preacher_us_5ab9a945e4b008c9e5fa8b8e

The current Vatican openly

rmrd0000 — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:11:45 +0000

In reply to p.s. it's actually kinda

The current Vatican openly criticizes Conservatives Catholics for siding with hate.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/06/541877769/vatican-addresses-catholic-trump-supporters

Pope Francis is siding with the student marchers

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/europe/pope-palm-sunday-tells-youth-to-speak-out/index.html

Like the so-called Evangelicals who are willing to make a deal with the Devil, Conservative Catholics have lost their way.

p.s. it's actually kinda

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:33:35 +0000

In reply to Yeah, papists were evil, like

p.s. it's actually kinda ironic because conservative Catholics now don't have a problem with Luther Calvin et. al., rather they can see what went wrong with the church getting too elitist, the only Protestant that bother them is the multi-culti eliteness of the modern liberal Episcopal church with it's wimmins and gays and immigrants and all that...

Oh, I should throw in that the anti-papist thing in the U.S. was also fed mightily in the 19th century by the anti-immigrant breeding hordes from Ireland, Poland, etc. by the WASP ruling class. They grew more inclusive, as it were, as time went on, you just had to be a WAS, the P part was no longer required. BIG IRONY: eventual use of birth control is what made them acceptable, hah!

Edit to add: Comes to mind: Father Coughlin helped with the assimilation! So did Joe McCarthy! Communism is godless, ya know.

Yeah, papists were evil, like

artappraiser — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:16:54 +0000

In reply to "Christian nationalists" also

Yeah, papists were evil, for a half millenia or so, like Jews were for a millenia or so.

But what happened is conservative Catholics like Bannon now side with the Judeo-Christian family values thing, that's been brewing since Vatican II multi-culti invasion and takeover of the good ol timey ways.

Similar with Jews, there are your good ones and your bad ones now. Owing partly to new interpretations of Book of Revelation and Israel and the like.

It's all still a plan, Stan, written by God in a book. They just got some things wrong in the past about what the book said, but they've got that straight now....