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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The attonated text of the Trump press conference causing controversy today
(Curse you, paywalls.)
And the Pope is Catholic. That's non-news.
edited 27th Jul '16 3:05:33 PM by Elle
Trump is doing terribly with Catholics, and its getting worse.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-driving-catholic-voters-toward-clinton/?ex_cid=538fb
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.
Leviticus 19:34I'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.” ~ CyranI 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
Leviticus 19:34This is probably a conversation to take to the religion thread, but I've certainly heard more than one person call him too liberal.
Leviticus 19:34It'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.
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)