Comments on: Giving Christians Their Due–Which Even Christians Won't Do

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:17:27 +0000

In reply to Eric. I am not sure what you are referring to specifically, but if you mean, are there Catholics who believe in taking in and caring for immigrants and refugees rather than abusing and expelling them, a narrow majority are pro-immigrant (a third even enthusiastically) which is in agreement with the Pope. Those who break with the Pope are the fascist conservative Catholics. And when you are far to the right of the Pope, you're a pretty hard core reactionary at that point. But that is nearly half of all Catholics.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:57:39 +0000

I came on this article reading another one. What do you think of the situation today? Catholics in America still ignore the Pope, so that’s the same. But is there any hope on this issue today?

By: Fred B-C

Fred B-C — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:18:29 +0000

In reply to wangerobo. Of course, what is not up for debate is the involvement of the Anglican and Catholic churches in "Indian" schools and the mass graves associated there. All because of an idea of civilizing the savage.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:00:36 +0000

In reply to LykeX. Awesome. Thanks!

By: LykeX

LykeX — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 13:08:46 +0000

In reply to otrame. On that note, I'll just drop this link. Sometimes it's good to be reminded that the raving lunatics aren't the whole story.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:32:12 +0000

In reply to wangerobo. Uh, you do know that's a scam, right? There is no International Common Law Court of Justice sitting in Brussels. Just some crazy dude in Canada.

By: otrame

otrame — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:32:35 +0000

I read Fred Clark's Slacktivist blog every day, because he reminds me that not all Christians are small-minded, cruel, bigoted, anti-intellectual fascists. This is obviously true, but we tend to pay more attention to those that scream the loudest and say the most outrageous things, and thus end up with the wrong impression. Fred insists he is an Evangelical Christian. He is a very liberal, decent, kind-hearted Evangelical Christian. Of course, most Christians aren't as liberal as he is, but he does provide a nice counter-balance. And he writes very well. He is an example of the disconnect you mention between the more thoughtful Christian and the upper echelons of the church hierarchies.

By: wangerobo

wangerobo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:24:07 +0000

In reply to wangerobo.

Never mind. I should have checked Snopes first. Sorry.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/popebenedict.asp

By: wangerobo

wangerobo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:43:59 +0000

Richard Carrier: “so now the Catholic leadership has joined the Catholic laity in ignoring everything the Pope says…one wonders if at some point they’ll even forget they have a Pope”

Well duh, no frking wonder! Haven’t you seen the problems popes and and church leaders have been up against lately? They are accused by the International Common Law Court of Justice sitting in Brussels of being part of a Satanic cult, The Ninth Circle. This cult and its elite membership, including Queen Elizabeth and her husband, are accused of child rape, child sacrifice, mutilation and cannibalism. The court found Pope Ratzinger guilty and a week later he was the first pope in 600 years to step down. They found the royals of the Netherlands guilty and the queen abdicated. No blogger I’ve read has had the courage to unravel this madness. Got courage?!

http://iclcj.com/?m=201407 This is the Court’s latest. Read their archives.

And here is the courageous Kevin Annett’s site. http://itccs.org/ It will will have links to inform you why the 800 children’s skeletons were found in a septic well in Ireland… and why you haven’t heard anything more about it! Curious about that?

…n the name of god…

By: stacyturner

stacyturner — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:56:57 +0000

Great post.