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🚨 Why So Many Protestants Are Done with the Modern Papacy
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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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People have a soft spot for liberation theology, despite it never actually accomplishing liberation.
I will not condemn liberation theology, even if its efficacy may not be the greatest, and even if there are only about 5 of them left. I will point out that whenever there was a conflict involving any kind of progressive social movement within catholicism, the church always sided with the people trying to stamp them out. The catholic church would rather side with genocidal protestants than socialist catholics and it has shown this repeatedly.
And if we are to look at the legacy of liberation theology and so forth, why not look to the history of black protestant churches in the struggle against white supremacy? Why does one matter but the other does not?
I firmly believe its cultural cringe and this site being majority from protestant dominated cultures, same as with the opposition to stated atheism.
I don't think anyone here is going to defend the historical record of the Catholic church. I think it'd be hard to find people who would say the church is a net positive force as it stands today.
What I see is a combination of people posting some decent takes from the pope on one single issue, and then laughing at the horrible right-wing reactions that result. The focus is on even the Catholic church outflanking almost the entire U.S. political class from the left.
I'm not disagreeing with you here, other than it's not 'cultural cringe', as I despise that particular framework. It is a vestigial contrarian impulse, not born out of any particular historical examination.
It's 'trolling' but trolling doesn't actually build anything.
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