“For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church (Rome), on account of its more powerful preeminence." Irenaeus of Lyons
I really encourage anyone who has questions, doubts, objections to the Catholic Church to just read the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Or you can go online and listen to the Catechism in a Year.
You might remain unconvinced. However, you will actually understand what you are disagreeing with. Right now you are just attacking a caricature of what you think we are.
You will be pleasantly surprised that Mary is mentioned a moderate amount and discussed in a very measured way.
It should confuse everyone. It's why nobody takes MAGA Christian faith seriously. It's insane to pretend to care for migrants and then elect someone who has build an entire political empire on demonization and dehumanization of migrants. It makes your gospel look small and stupid
The Christian right created a horrific situation, which is impacting their friend and now they want to point the finger instead of looking in the mirror.
You are the reason your friend is behind bars, @JoelWBerry.
You!
You created and promoted a culture of cruelty targeting immigrants. When this was pointed out to you, you callously said people needed to just follow the law.
You did not care.
You had no compassion.
You did not see their humanity.
You did not feel for their families.
Now, you want to blame others because your chickens have come home and of course, you run to the familiar.
The policies of the right-wing government that I support is actually the liberals fault.
What!?
Is it too much to ask you for remorse?
How about repentance?
If you can't find some integrity, at least have some shame.
What happened with immigration enforcement is that ICE stopped going aggressively after the foreign gang members and rapists populating the Communist-run inner cities, because feral leftists kept trying to commit suicide by cop and creating PR problems for the administration in an election year.
But ICE still wants to keep its numbers up so the President can make good on his promises.
So what do they do? They go after the low-hanging fruit: people who aren't hiding, who won't resist, who have families and jobs, and who can be picked up on paperwork irregularities.
A good way to keep the numbers up, sure, and the law's the law. But we're still left with hordes of hostile foreigners taking over American cities, terrorizing Americans, and acting as a source of free votes for the commies running these sanctuary cities. A major problem that still needs to be fixed.
Everyone has been telling these tools that ICE is not going after the worst of the worst but hard working families.
They didn't care.
They said we had toxic empathy.
Now, that it happened to one of their friends, they have the nerve to come here talking about, "Can you believe ICE is going after low hanging fruit?"
I JUST CANNOT!
They saw ICE hanging out at immigration hearings, Home Depot parking lots, schools-- FREAKING SCHOOLS.
They noticed nothing.
Now, they are shocked because fellow evangelical tool, who dug a pit for his own demise has fallen into the pit that he dug.
These people are truly nauseating.
This is the inevitable outcome of the "toxic empathy" hustle.
The move is discouraging Christians from caring about anyone outside of selfish motivations ("I like that guy.")
Not only is this morally vacuous, but if you don't care about anyone until you're impacted, you're going
Evangelicals: We are a Christian nation and need a Christian government!
America: Okay support programs that feed the hungry like Jesus said.
Evangelicals: It's not the government's job to be Christian.
PICK A LANE
Attended my local Church here and the priest was Indian, there were female altar servers, Protestant music and the majority of the parishioners were migrants.
I left Mass in a state of deep anger and will probably never go back to that parish ever again. I despise all of it.