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I doubt many are Catholic. J.D. Vance would be an option, tho.
by frm88 7mo ago
I doubt many are Catholic. J.D. Vance would be an option, tho.
- the_af 7mo agoDon't know about the leadership, but a quick googling tells me about 25% of the US military identify as Catholic. That's not nothing...
- School-Cotton 7mo agoMy guess is the vast majority of those are Hispanic Americans who have been Catholic since birth, and not part of the modern far-right Catholic conversion movement (like Vance).
- petesergeant 7mo agoMAGA antipope is only a matter of time
- bregma 7mo agoTrump for pope! I hear he's going to be looking to do something new in a few years.
- water_badger 7mo agowell, ~21% of americans are catholic
- embedding-shape 7mo ago"are Catholic" is so fuzzy though. "identify as" and "practices" are wildly different experiences, at least on the receiving end. I'm sure that percentage is mostly consisting of "identify as" rather than "practicing".
- water_badger 7mo ago100,000 people joined the catholic church in america this week. At this point I don't think anything other than the church retains the ability to present a coherent moral or metaphysical intellectual framework to people who care about that kind of thing. I would be very surprised if the united states is not majority catholic in ~100 years
- empath75 7mo agoThere is nothing more catholic than not practicing catholicism.
- bluGill 7mo agoFor this purpose identify is enough - as anyone who identifies will be horrified even if they otherwise don't care about the church. Many non-Catholics (including non-Christians) are also horrified even though they otherwise don't care about what the pope says at all.
- ImPostingOnHN 7mo agoI don't think supporters of the current US president would be horrified. They already support his anti-christian behavior, and seem more interested in being part of that group than they are in the religion itself. More likely he would just assert that the Pope isn't actually the Pope, and thus any excommunications are void, and his supporters would roll with it. Some of them already believe this. Any words, true or false, which make them feel better to believe. That's religion, right? He is their true religion.
- tekla 7mo agoI'm confused as to why you think one of the most popular religions on Earth would not be a decent chunk of the American military.
- frm88 7mo agoI pledge ignorance. Yeah, sorry should have looked that up before posting. I was always under the impression, North America tended towards other faiths, like Baptism or Mormon.
- lukan 7mo agoIf you take this argument that general, then I would say Islam is also one of the most popular religions on earth but well, very lowly reprecented in the US army (below 0.4 percent) https://soldiersangels.org/the-diversity-of-our-service-members/ https://soldiersangels.org/the-diversity-of-our-service-memb... History is why catholics are at 20%. Which is a significant force and a dangerous game to alienate them.
- sonotathrowaway 7mo agoWait until you find out how many Latino people serve in the military.
- ks2048 7mo agoWait until you find out how many Latinos aren't catholic. (Yes, it's a lot, probably most, but in some LATAM countries Catholics are now outnumbered by evangelicals).
- redwood 7mo agoLatinos (~20% of the military) plus the very military-forward Italian and Polish American communities plus countless others... what a ridiculous statement
- joezydeco 7mo agoA significant number of SCOTUS judges are Catholic. Start there, since they enabled this.
- I-M-S 7mo agoBiden was Catholic, yet not even him sponsoring a genocide was enough to warrant an excommunication.
- CobrastanJorji 7mo agoHe was denied communion on one occasion, though it was for his stance on abortion (he didn't support making it a crime).
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