'A threat to democracy': William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics

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I have some cognitive dissonance here.

Not all Christians are the same and that should be made clear. It is the same problem of who has the right one and the hundreds of different views and opinions that there are. We tend to paint with a broad brush when, in fact, generalizing is a distortion.

Evangelicals are Protestants. The ones that I have met and talked to in the past retain a grudge and have a strong disdain for Catholics, so much so that the Pope is the Devil incarnate for some of them. Having been raised a Catholic and after escaping in early, I recall a rather tepid and more inclusive environment and attitude while I was there, but that was a long time ago.

I just don't see Catholics and Protestants ever fully resolving the break that Martin Luther made and it is evident to this day even if the antipathy is more one-sided. So, I really have skepticism about what is going on with Barr. He is not really behaving or expressing himself in the way that I have known Catholicism, in this case. Have the Ultra-Conservative Catholics made a pact with their arch-enemies, the Evangelicals? If that is the case, it won't last long, in my opinion.

Just had to ramble a little about this. Something just seems wrong here, but these days, with this MisAdministration, most of it does.