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Trump Condemned by New York Catholic Leaders Over Image of Himself as Pope (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You seem to paper over the fact that the Church coming out against Hitler put the lives of many clergy at risk and invited a hateful wrath. The Church did not oppose Nazism because they had some insight that years later the Nazis would lose. They did it because it was the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That's some great retconning from the church if that's their actual stance. :)

"We didn't oppose the fascists when the moment came because we heard they were going to lose, but trust us, we were really on the side of good all along."

To be fair, this is exactly what the Catholic church does and is good at, convincing people that they were on the side of good all along and white washing their history to remain relevant.

It's staggeringly effective at every level. They've been doing it for almost 2000 years. I don't know of any other religion or cult that has managed to stay relevant for that long outside of the Catholic church, so they're doing something right, even if what they're doing "right" is actually quite wrong.