Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.
They’ve been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren’t Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it’s bots or wumao. Human beings can’t possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.
I thought your name was ironic, lmao.
Didn’t the Rerum Novarum strictly reject socialism? Affirms the right to private property? Or was it the one time the pope was fallible?
Its one of the foundational documents of modern Catholicism how could you not have read the part where the pope says worker unions ok, but socialism is bad?
Look, they are what I, when I was a Catholic, would describe as a ‘bad Catholic’. Many liberal Catholics operate the same way, with a perverse attachment to the Church as it could be instead of seeing the Church as it has been and continues to be, that isn’t to say that good things don’t come out of the Church (hospitals, nursing homes, monasteries, etc), just that they are better the further they are away from the central worship and money-making operation. When I was a rigorous Catholic (10-15) I was a very conservative Catholic because I read the doctrine, listened to the scripture, and understood the scripture and how it ought to be interpreted.
If was during my confirmation when I was continuing my theological study, when I stumbled upon Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche and other metaphysical philosophers and it struck me that not only was my understanding of Catholicism incredibly shallow, but it confirmed my increasing suspicion that everyone else’s understanding of Catholicism was also, if not more, shallow. Upon reading, especially people like Hume and Kant, it became clear that not only did I not actually have very rigorous grounds for what I believed, but that in order to be a ‘good Catholic’ you had to be a ‘bad person’ and that ‘bad Catholics’ were constantly having to deal with this juxtaposition, fighting against the structure of a Church that wants their money, but doesn’t actually want them or their ideas.
It wasn’t that they were ‘bad Catholics’ it’s that they were ‘good people’ attempting to be ‘Catholics’. That’s when I rejected the entire thing and tried to start from scratch to the best of my abilities. It’s been a long road and I still don’t know where I will end up ideologically, but I do know that I will not make the mistake of seeing ‘what could be’ for ‘what is’.
