#Vance wading into spat between #Trump and the #Pope is only turning the heat up…
“It would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic church and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy”
- Trump is a dictator acting without checks or balances.
- launching an illegal war is not merely ‘public policy’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/jd-vance-defends-trump-pope-leo-spat
If war is now considered to be outside of the confines of morality by modern politicians then we are in a very dangerous place indeed.
This is absolutely why we need more history and philosophy taught in schools.
But…
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them”
I get that some religious folks find #Trump’s Jesus/Pope cosplaying highly disrespectful…but I would argue these things are worse:
1) targeting civilians in an illegal war (killing innocent women and children)
2) raping and sexually assaulting women and children
3) having innocent men, women and children kidnapped off US streets and put into prison camps
Vance's problem with the Pope is that the Pope DOES stick to matters of morality.
@BlueDot @JugglingWithEggs Yup.
***At the very least***, there are plenty of Catholic Church adherents in the military. Is the Pope supposed to ignore their existence?
Yup…no one is buying the line that the robes and glowing lights coming out of his hands are medical in any way.
I get that some religious folks find Trump’s Jesus cosplaying highly disrespectful…but I would argue these things are worse:
1) targeting civilians in an illegal war (killing innocent women and children)
2) raping and sexually assaulting women and children
3) having innocent men, women and children kidnapped off US streets and put into prison camps
He probably thinks he’s advocating for the separation of Church and State or more importantly he wants others to think that’s what he’s doing, but I find his wording clunky in the extreme.
Trump and Vance are also literally using Project 2025 to copy and paste policy from…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kevin-roberts-project-2025-opus-dei
US VP says politicians can pretend god supports military action, but religious people can't tell politicians to follow religious insyruction in rhe Christian nationalist movement where rule by religious pretenders is insisted on.
@JugglingWithEggs How can JD Vance be a catholic and somehow be under the impression that the Catholic church has ever stuck "to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic church"?
Either you ignore the Pope, which is fine, or you don't, and then you give him power. They have not ignored him, so they give him power.
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