Thursday, October 24, 2013

McKay Coppins and Hunter Schwarz — How The Pope Could Tear Apart The Religious Right

Conservative Christians revolt against the new pope’s new tone.
This is bigger than most people yet suspect, but the Christianist Right gets it loud and clear. Pope Francis is not their guy. 

It's also becoming clear that neither is Francis a neoliberal. And we are just in the first weeks of his tenure.

BuzzFeed Politics
How The Pope Could Tear Apart The Religious Right
McKay Coppins and Hunter Schwarz

3 comments:

Matt Franko said...

The Dems already have the 'economic justice' cohort of Christendom in the US locked up. Throw in the evo-atheists and the other religions and they have it locked...

The only way the GOP wins is if they can scalp a few % from this economic justice Christian cohort in the general by running on a 'compassionate conservative' theme in the general...

I don't see the Pope affecting this with his economic proposals for a world that is one big soup kitchen where most everyone is poor and threaten the 1% with the hell doctrine to coerce them into throwing a few alms to fund the soup kitchens .... this is the Paul Ryan/Newt Gingrich vision too...

... its all in the GOPs court on who they end up running... if they run a "43% Romney" with his sidekick "soup kitchen Ryan" or facsimile again next time, they lose...

rsp,

Matt Franko said...

Here:

"white Catholics have been a pillar of Hillary Clinton’s voter coalition in her big-state victories to date and are likely to be an important factor in the outcome of tomorrow’s primary. Recent state polls suggest that Clinton enjoys a huge lead among white Catholics in Pennsylvania, and that is likely one of the reasons she has been consistently ahead. "

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/catholics-in-pennsylvania/

Christendom in the US is ALREADY divided politically between the life/values/economic cohorts... the Pope isn't going to change this in any meaningful way just as his predecessors had no such ability either imo...

rsp,

Matt Franko said...

Ha from the article:

"And when Francis seemed to suggest that salvation was possible for atheists as long as they lived moral lives, Christian Broadcasting Network reporter David Brody tweeted, “Say what? Catholics please explain this… Evangelicals are NOT kosher with this.”

Revealing!