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Y'all raised in normal places have no idea how much the average Evangelical thinks the Catholic church is straight up Satanic. My parents swore up and down when I was a kid that Pope JP2 was entirely evil to the core, as were all Catholics other than JFK, ironically.
Maybe 98.5% of Faux News viewers didn't bat an eye at this, and took yet another Big swig of the Kool-aid. This is an absolutely normal perspective for American Evangelicals.
You wanna hear something that’ll absolutely destroy whatever little faith in humanity you may have left?
I once knew a guy who knew for a fact that Southern Baptist was the only true Christian religion. His reasoning? And he was absolutely dead serious when he said this and for him is was 100% a mic drop moment:
“Because his name was John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”
This was something his aunt had said to him years ago, which I guess underscored its infallibility. He was by far the dumbest person I had ever met, and I’ve met a lot of dumb people.
Oh, my friend, I've met modern slaves and child brides. Faith in humanity ceased to be a whole category of emotion I can hold onto decades ago.
The real irony is that this is a running joke from non-Baptist sects, but Baptists sometimes buy into it, and not to drag this down a pedantic road, but there is a whole thing about Baptists claiming some unbroken line of baptism as a practice back to JtB.
They're all like that. They memorize some glib one-liner and think by doing so they know more than scientists, historians, doctors. It's what happens when you say to narcissists, "Yes, you ARE speaking for/to God!" You create ignorant monsters.
When I was a teenager in the '90s, my mom's church did a six-week series of lessons on Wednesday nights about how the Catholic church only pretends to be Christian, followed by another series of lessons about how the Pope meets all of the criteria to be the Antichrist.
As Jesus said, "Love your neighbor, but only if he believes in me in exactly the same way you do."
Aw, my Mom would have LOVED that. I think she just had talk radio and a few random books from the local Christian book store to push her into that corner.
Wait, there was a secret John Paul the 3rd??? No wonder they thought he was evil!!!
LOL, sorry, my bad. I just remembered that he was Polish, I forgot which number JP he was.