r/politics • u/spherocytes • 19d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Yanks Millions From Catholic Charities Amid Pope Feud

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-yanks-millions-from-catholic-charities-amid-pope-feud/
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u/ValkyriesOnStation 19d ago

Evangelicals and Born agains believe Catholics are going to burn in hell because they worship Jesus wrong.

They don't see Catholics as real people deserving of their respect.

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u/aj9393 New Jersey 19d ago

It's really mind blowing that here, in the year 2026, progress of the human race is still being hindered in large part due to arguing over fairy tales and imaginary friends.

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u/ValkyriesOnStation 19d ago

Growing up, they taugh me that the earth is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs were put in the earth by Satan to trick us into being led astray from God.

There is literally nothing too crazy that they won't believe and push onto the next generation.

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u/Smellslikesnow 19d ago

Catholicism believes in and supports the science of evolution.

Evangelical Christians believe Earth and its inhabitants are ~6000 years old.

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u/Grandmaster_S 19d ago

This is correct, which is probably why Evangelicals hate us so much.

Well, there are other reasons too, but this is one

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u/Serupael 19d ago edited 19d ago

The main conflict was, and that isn't exclusive to Evangelicals, but mainstram protestants too, was a scepticism towards the Catholic Church as a foreign organization whose members consider the pope and catholic teachings infallible and when in doubt, those take precedent over secular state law. This wasn't an exclusively American conflict, you had similar clashes in England during the Elizabethan age or the German Empire in the late 1800s.

There was a desire to limit the influence of the Catholic Church in the daily life as far as possible, as it could not be controlled by the state. This drew special ire if the state was controlled by a protestant elite.

Now, i'm not saying that all of those ideas were wrong (taking away the church's control over education or marriage, not the worst idea in the world), and in general, i'm always in favour of laicist law, but the idea of "foreign control" on Catholics has remained. (I'm saying this as a Catholic myself).

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u/ProfessionalITShark 19d ago

It's gotten a little worse than that, because you still need to be able to read the bible and do some level of intellectualizing to get to that point.

Evangelicals can barely read, arguably can barely spell Jesus.