I am a Catholic and I object to the “devout” label too. He’s a jerky, douchey Catholic, illustrating the absolute worst aspects of any faith. He is simply a bully using religion to justify his bullying.
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This is unfortunate, yet consistent behaviour for this jaghoff from Pittsburgh.
Last year he was telling the scientists to stay out of the climate change debate, stating it is a political issue.
Now he’s telling the Pope to stay out of US domestic political affairs as well.
Notice that he’s insisting it is not an important issue now.
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Oh, but they CAN get away with it for as long as they like. The motivations for “tough” interviews is not to bring sanity to the debate, but to generate ratings and perpetuate Roger Ailes’ neocon views. What we can read into this is that Ailes wants Santorum out of the race.
Don’t attribute their actions to anything noble. The pretty news readers and faux journalists are following the carefully-prepared script to further the propaganda - part of the message is their own insistence that they’re the only ones being fair and balanced. The utterly fake and gentle sparring is kabuki theater. You will never see Chris Wallace conduct a truly hard-hitting interview like Mike Wallace could.
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Yeah, well, your mother!
I’ve known too many caring and compassionate Catholics not to be offended by him.
This guy at best was a lousy senator. Not one accomplishment. What a loser. I really find his stance on social and environmental issues in the 21st century unconscionable. I can’t even watch or listen to him - but that goes for the entire slate of candidates. Bunch of scum bag panderers
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Well, you might get away with, but you’ll eventually become irrelevant!
Well, FOX is not running out of R-candidates soon, so they can slap a few of them around to create the illusion that it is a real news network.
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Isn’t… isn’t the Pope supposed to be infallible to a devout Catholic?
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When actually standing on infallibility, yes; they don’t do that very often, and Francis hasn’t (yet) on climate change.
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Sure we can, the Pope is wrong sometimes and the fact that the Church evolves proves that. This Pope is an improvement towards reality like no other but that doesn’t mean that he is all the way there or has some God-like righteousness. He does still represent the church and is smart enough to go about his teachings in baby steps. He is heading towards a goal and attempting to lead the flock there with him but has to avoid mutiny along the way.
I don’t think that Pope Francis is totally forthcoming with his beliefs and how could he be when they conflict with the real world around him. He is bound by his religion in degrees, like it or not. If he went full progressive he wouldn’t be the leader any longer, so to have an impact he must measure his guidance and restrict it to what his people can handle as it is taught to them.
Pope Francis uncensored would be a true awakening and departure from Catholicism as its known today IMO.
and don’t forget birth control. None of my Catholic friends with only 1 or 2 children want to talk about birth control.
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Runaway Greenhouse Effect.
Highly possible, given the highly damaging methane trapped in the Permafrost in Siberia and other northern forests.
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And Santorum states that the wedge issues he uses as Talking Points are more important than Climate Change.
Even if there was only a 25% chance of most scientists being correct on Climate Change, why would a Republican voter take that chance? For his family? For his community? For his nation?
For his world?
If there was ever evidence that the so-called “crazy FOX-addled relative” popping up at family dinners is really a sociopath, this is it.
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Do they want to talk about the Duggars, the anti-birth control method?
With or without birth control, its a scary picture for Catholics. I guess they are saying, only have sex for procreation and that is how you control births?
That is a temptation that most of mankind will fail every time and a setup for sin.
Why can’t Catholics just pick a number, pray for that number and have the family size that they pray for then still have relations without worry? There always has to be the temptation that forces simple man/woman to be more superhuman than they were cut out to be.
The master plan sucks.
I will submit this quote from the Bard of Avon:
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
Now, I’m not saying that Santorum is the Devil, as I don’t really believe in such a creature. Nonetheless, the sentiment fits here, I think.
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Does it seem that Fox is attempting to winnow the field of poser candidates before the debates by toughening up the interviews? Carly Fiornia, now Santorum, haven’t been getting softball softball questions.
Santorum isn’t running for the nomination. He’s running for the money. He knows he has zero chance. He plans to pocket at least half the dough his campaign collects, and most likely more. He will say whatever idiocy he thinks will encourage idiots to contribute. Like the rest of the clowns in the GOP clown car, he doesn’t really believe anything that he says. He’s making a nice dollar because his target audience lives in a GOP bubble and has no clue that they are constantly voting against their own interests,
You know, I asked my climate-change-denying father-in-law that just a couple weeks ago. He kept insisting that he hadn’t seen enough evidence, that the evidence was contradictory, etc. etc.
As it happens, part of my job is doing scientific literature searches to find the most academically rigorous evidence on various topics, so I told him I’d be happy to do the research for him–all he had to do was tell me what level of evidence he was looking for.
He finally admitted that it didn’t matter what I found, he wasn’t going to change his mind.
It felt like progress.
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I disagree somewhat. I think many in the GOP base are willing to vote against their own interests, so long as those votes promise to hurt “The Other” even more than they are hurting themselves. Sure, this new policy might cause me to have to downsize into a smaller home. But if it lands a black person having to sleep under a bridge, great!!
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TPM…Wallace and Kelly aren’t being fair or ethical in these bits. They’re just setting wingnuts up to defend themselves when its needed. Santorum said some dumb stuff that doesn’t set well with how he promotes himself. So he goes on FOX and gets the “hard hitting” Wallace who threw him softballs dressed up in hard ball skin that set up all the walk back and revisionism Santorum needed to get back on track. That’s all this is.
Same for Kelly. She didn’t interview the Duggers. She set them up to lie and dodge what they did. She masqueraded as a “tough” journo when all she really was doing was crisis management.