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I Love Jesuits. If you haven't 'friended' Fr Martin yet, do it- he has the greatest posts.
Jesuits are Jesus' seal team. They are by lightyears the brightest guys in the room. I and many like me would never even be Catholics without them- because the other hierarchy can be at times sadistic and ignorant, justifying their meanness in the name of moral piety, when they completely misunderstand basic public policy. The diocesese hierarchy has always been a few degrees dimmer than the Jesuits.
Take Abortion for instance. The religious right has always used it as a political football and bright line. Republicans are the good guys and democrats the 'baby killers' because of abortion politics.
Yet under Democratic Administrations abortion statistics always decrease because they are much more strategic and clever about reducing unwanted pregnancy in the first place and incentivizing women, whom they tend to respect much more, into wanting to carry children to term.
Abortion statistics also go down under Democratic priorities, principles and regimes because they understand the connection between poverty and abortion, education and abortion and women's rights and abortion and make laws and policies that favor bringing life into the world, whereas Republicans
just want to demonize women and criminalize them, as if they got pregnant by themselves.
Generally speaking Cardinals want to shout moral proclamations whereas Democratic politicians
tend to want to find solutions. Cardinals are in that regard not more pious, just dumber. To add insult to the injury that they cause by polarizing rather than letting facts inform the discussion they punish dissent rudely.
Jesuits are smart. They are educators. They run universities. They understand the nuances of policy
and factors influencing it.
It is small minded ignorant, rude and incorrect that one must be a Republican to be a good Christian or a good Catholic. And to punish dissent is more than ignorant- it is saddistic. One can be a great theologian and a lousy Christian and there are a few Cardinals in that boat.
Saint John of the Cross said 'the road to hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops' and now i see why.
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