Just throwing this out there for non-religious people who often seem confused by certain current events:
American evangelicals nearly universally have zero interest in what a pope has to say on a subject. By and large, they give the Pope's opinion the same weight as, say, the Dalai Lama's, which is to say, none whatsoever.
I mention this because I see things like "Trump says X but the pope says Y. How will his base react?" His base couldn't care less.
@InkomTech Fair point, and I hope you're right! If the margin is razor thin, it wouldn't take many defectors before he starts costing elections.
I only wanted to explain to some people that telling an Assemblies of God person that the Pope thinks they're wrong isn't the "gotcha" they think it might be. They simply won't care.
@tek and there’s a degree of fuckeduppedness deep in Mormon country. Mormons have been SO gung ho about Mittens for _years_. He was ‘first Mormon president’ material. So so gung ho. And yet a ton of Mormons literally hate him now because they chose to side with Trump.
Blows my mind.
@InkomTech Oh, I'm sure! Along those lines, I remember when the GOP liked John McCain.
Don't even get me started on Jesus.
Tekniquelly correct
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