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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
So this has been going on for a long time.
Clinton needs to push this hard. The man is a traitor.
Oh really when?
The attonated text of the Trump press conference causing controversy today (Curse you, paywalls.)
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And the Pope is Catholic. That's non-news.
edited 27th Jul '16 3:05:33 PM by Elle
The Gamefaqs Politics board is flooded with Trump supporters.
No. They're just flooded with trolls.
Granted, that's not much of a difference
Trump is doing terribly with Catholics, and its getting worse.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-driving-catholic-voters-toward-clinton/?ex_cid=538fb
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Yay?
Though I'd inject a ray of hope into the thread.
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Oh.
YAY!
belongs to the hurricane
It wouldn't surprise me that Trump is doing poorly with devout christians. There was an article a while back stating that Utah - the mormon state- has very low Trump support. He's so much of an asshole that it's impossible to ignore.
I mean, it's not like he's insulted a widely popular Pope and constantly been spewing crap about an ethnic group that makes up a large portion of the country and happen to be largely Catholic...
edited 27th Jul '16 3:25:53 PM by Elle
And "to hell with the poor and vulnerable" tends to play poorly with Catholics and Mormons.
The article noted that he's doing poorly with white Catholics as well.
edited 27th Jul '16 3:28:23 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
According to a poll once, Trump was/is considered the least religious candidate.
Having said that, I doubt there are many demographics that like Trump.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
A procrastination in of itself
I'd be curious to see the divide within Protestantism, I know that most US Protestant churches are exstreamists but you also have some very liberal ones, I'd assume that the liberal ones back the Dems.
edited 27th Jul '16 3:32:10 PM by Silasw
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
The big denominations, like the Baptists, are quite diverse from what I gather.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
I mean, Protestant basically means "miscellaneous", so there's probably a lot of them.
Currently, the protestant church I'm going to talked about a few political issues, but what they've been saying is akin to "calm down, God is in control" and began accusing people too worried about politics to prosperity doctrine on a social level. They did tell their members to be active, voting citizens in their community, though.
edited 27th Jul '16 3:39:39 PM by Protagonist506
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
I guess that explain why my dad (who is Catholic) supports Trump-he also hates Pope Francis.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
"Mainline" churches like the Lutherans and Episcopalians tend to be center-right to center-left.
United Earth
What's there to hate? The man single-handedly saved the Catholic Church from ruin!
They probably think he's too liberal.
That'd explain why my church keeps giving sermons on accepting and loving people, regardless of differences. I'm glad that other Catholics aren't supportive of Trump either.
If that's not sarcastic, I hardly think that's accurate; the Catholic Church has hardly been on the brink of anything lately.
Arrow-ninja'd. I know Francis is liberal.
edited 27th Jul '16 4:27:53 PM by Elle
This is probably a conversation to take to the religion thread, but I've certainly heard more than one person call him too liberal.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
It's funny because for all his talk about being more tolerant of LGBT+ persons, the Church hasn't made that many strides in terms of action rather than words. Although, considering just how slowly the Catholic Church can be in changing to the times, that alone may mark him as a nearly John Paul I level radical.
United Earth
The RCC wasn't on the brink of anything, it was in a ditch, slowly sinking into the mud, burning goodwill and losing respect. He pulled it out of the gutter, but it'll take a long time time before its good name is restored.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Background reading: Washington Post article on Trump's Russian connections
(written pre-RNC)