Such a sexy dress, he made Mike fail his masturbation pact.

"Didn't half give me the horn!"

Look up Derek and Clive discussing the death of the Pope for more details.

A man under a tent with the words prove me wrong written on it while arguing against gun control getting shot was definitely the definition of asking for it.

What you’re missing is that evangelicals think the Catholic Church is demonic.

Worse yet: people who want their sub-literate, selective interpretation of the Bible to be law.

Some years ago I would have laughed at the idea that the pope could be on any side of this but the wrong side. Then I found out just how stupendously, stupidly evil evil can get. I'm not laughing now.

I mean, the DoD literally threatened exactly that

Again? I don't think they'll let Vance in now.

Lots of folks are calling him turbulent

Where’s James Donald Bowman when you need him?

I thought they were reactionaries in the "bring back the 1950's" sense, but they really want to bring back the 1500's. Mike is going to post his theses on supply side economics and neocon warfare on the front door of the St Louis Cathedral in NOLA.

Yeah, I don't think many catholics realize how close they are to the top of the list after Muslims, gays, and trans people. Atheists might be ahead of Catholics but honestly it might be a wash. Protestants seriously hate them, I got fed a steady drip of anti-Catholic sentiment as a baby Calvinist here in BC.

I'm not Christian (or religious), but I wouldn't classify the US evangelicals as Christians. Maybe some kind of neo Christians or something, but they've drifted very far from the concepts of that religion.

As for Mormons, I don't even know what they are, some kind of wacky fan fiction that isn't canon by anyone's measure, so they're definitely in their own category.

Yeah a lot of u.s Christians don’t consider Catholics as Christians but more like a Jew or Muslim. No joke.

Believing that there are intermediaries between a person and the deity is complete anathema to any kind of Muslim (well, there used to be some veneration of Sufi saints, but they didn't pray for them to intercede). The Jewish religion is also strictly monotheistic, honors its prophets but doesn't ask them for help.

Catholics are not real Christians because they worship Mary and saints.

All non-Protestant Christians (Orthodox, Coptic, Nestorian, etc) ask Mary and the saints for a kind word to the Guy Upstairs. Some Protestants even do it, though in a toned-down way compared to Roman Catholics. And it's not quite worship, more veneration, though extreme RC manifestations of the cult of Mary might be an exception. Not that fundies can handle nuance. They're people who don't believe communion involved actual wine, that material wealth is a reward from God (with contorted fanfic trying to explain away the proverb of the camel and the eye of a needle), that having any sort of images or things of beauty in a church is idolatry (another belief shared with extremist Muslims), that the King James Bible is God's inerrant word (despite its dodgy sourcing, occasionally shoddy translation, and obolete English usage that fundies don't understand) and that their weird 19th-century heretical fractally schismatic sect somehow preserves the practices of the early Christians.

Yeah I got that from time to time growing up. And as mentioned elsewhere, treating Catholics as not really American. Also got called a devil worshipper about it sometimes.

I left the church over several fundamental issues including women's rights and queer rights, but I'm still partial to it even though I'm pagan these days. I still can't fucking stand Baptists.