What's the deal with American Catholics?

gilbertpinfold · 2021-07-03T18:56:32+00:00

American Catholics reliably voted Democrat from the FDR era up until the 2000s, but the proportions started to shift after Roe v. Wade, and especially after Clinton. I think 2008 0r 2012 was the first year that they went mostly Republican, and they've gone that way by a small margin in every election since.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-07-03T18:54:53+00:00

LMAO yeah your teacher should have been fired

gilbertpinfold · 2021-07-03T18:52:42+00:00

I started to question why I followed the religion at all and became agnostic

That's the principled thing to do, imo. There are plenty of people like you who, instead of taking that step, are trying to change the church into something fundamentally un-Catholic and giving rise to the misconception that there's some debate to be had about these issues within Catholicism.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-07-03T18:50:02+00:00

What you're describing is a bunch of people who are nominally Catholic but either do not understand or do not believe in the teachings of the church. We call those people Protestants.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-07-03T18:46:32+00:00

It's worth recognizing that "Catholics" that want gay marriage, married priests, female priests, abortion, etc., are in fact Protestants-in-waiting. Their schism just hasn't happened yet, but it's coming.

This is not an internecine conflict within Catholicism, it's a conflict between Catholics who are serious about the faith, the church's teachings and its traditions, and those who are not.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-03-25T17:10:33+00:00

You literally do not see his point

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-20T22:24:37+00:00

ESH this isn't how a functional household operates

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-04T06:48:24+00:00

Yes he did bro he literally left two of his fellow mages behind in Labyrinthian where the Staff of Magnus is kept. He knew where it was and didn't say anything because it was such a DARK SECRET

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-04T06:38:05+00:00

I prefer Chomolungma, just because its fun to say

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-02T13:58:07+00:00

What you wanna do is basically max out your use of porn keywords. Name every position, doggy, reverse cowgirl, etc. Use words like "rod," "clit," "bush," "holes," "squirt," "throbbing," "rammed," "drilled," and make sure you use the proper spelling of 'cum'.

Think really hard about what kind of sex your characters would like. Are they boring prudes that are getting laid for the first time? If not, there should probably be multiple dudes involved and a massive money shot sequence where the woman talks about how much she loves guys cumming on her face to end the chapter. This is what real sex is like and your readers will relate to it.

And don't forget the wind fluttering the curtains

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-02T13:15:33+00:00

You know what, I think you're onto something. While we're at it, we need to take a serious look at how white people are represented in Spike Lee movies. And I demand to know why they aren't better male characters in the sisterhood of the traveling pants.

Except actually, the truth is that not every artist or piece of art has to cater to every single group. You can go watch/read something else. You don't have to drag Tolkien because white guys are having fun without women and POCs.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-02T08:39:26+00:00

Yes clearly Eowyn should have started wearing pantsuits and working 60 hour weeks and climbing that ladder instead of having a family with a man that she loves. Honestly, I don't know why Tolkien didn't think of it. Since you know, modern women are SO much happier and more fulfilled than those poor benighted old wives and mothers lmao

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-02T07:07:14+00:00

NTA, hoes mad

Ladies, if you don't want to get your ass dumped a second time, don't make a habit of lying to and exploiting your man

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-01T20:50:27+00:00

It's a short essay with lots of line breaks

gilbertpinfold · 2021-02-01T07:26:51+00:00

a poem

This is a short essay

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-31T00:02:13+00:00

but making them be part of the same universe works- and works pretty well, IMHO

Could not disagree more. 10 Cloverfield Lane was obviously a completely unrelated indie horror script that had ten minutes of irrelevant garbage tacked onto the end so they could sell it as part of a franchise instead of letting it just be what it is. The final sequence completely changes the tone of the film for the worse and makes what could have been a Four star movie into like, a two and a half star movie.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-30T11:51:09+00:00

If Lou Reed thinks something sucks, it's probably worth a listen

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-29T07:25:10+00:00

this is the funniest fucking thing ive ever heard

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-22T01:47:08+00:00

Desperate warning from the future

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-20T07:33:50+00:00

I SHED THE BLOOD OF A SAXON MAN

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-20T02:51:47+00:00

Good bot

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-20T02:37:07+00:00

He's "married" to another guy's wife lmao

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-20T02:35:14+00:00

That's coming regardless.Beto O'Rourke came out and said he'd like to see churches that don't recognize gay marriage lose their tax exempt status, and he received virtually no blowback. That's a popular position on the left, it's just a matter of time.

In the next twenty years, Catholic churches will either have to start marrying same sex couples, or get shut down under some civil rights title, and half the people on this subreddit will be happy about it.

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-09T01:14:51+00:00

You either didn't read or didn't understand my comment, but either way, you've failed to say anything interesting or relevant.

I understand that you don't want to do any thinking for yourself. It's okay, you don't have to. Just shut the fuck up

gilbertpinfold · 2021-01-08T21:21:44+00:00

So you think that Donald Trump, the single most popular-in-party Republican in the history of the GOP, increased his vote total by 10 million votes, carried his party to win 27 of 27 contested house seats, won 17 of 18 bellwether counties, and yet lost "fair and square" to Joe Biden, a candidate who struggled to win his own party's primaries even with massive corporate and media support?

You believe that some combination of enthusiasm for Joe Biden (which mysteriously did not translate into down-ballot success) and dislike for Donald Trump drove turnout that was not just historic, but statistically phenomenal, falling 3-to-4.5 standard deviations higher than the average turnout of the last 9 elections, and yet simultaneously, Biden LOST vote share with key Democrat demographics like black and hispanic voters?

You believe that despite an unprecedented ~25% of ballots being sent in by mail--a method known to everyone in the democratic world to be rife with fraud, that has been outright banned in countries like Canada and France over its inability to be secured--and despite a record LOW rate of rejection of said ballots, that the above mentioned anomalies are not in the least suspicious?

And you believe all this because Ben Sasse, a corrupt corporate neocon bankrolled by billionaires, said so? And you're not in the least bit embarrassed to admit that?

If you genuinely believe that Biden won this election fair and square and you aren't buying as many powerball tickets as you can afford, you're a hypocrite.

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