re: #6 Obdicut

I’d say that their religion is different from mainstream Catholicism. They’re denying the primacy of science in determining what the natural world is like.

Just as most US Catholics differ from the Catholic church on a number of positions, so do these people. Except these people are nuts.

Point well taken. Many US Catholics diverge from Church teachings in some things because they find that the thinking of the mainstream Protestant/secular American culture is more appropriate to their lives and needs in some things.

These guys do the same thing, except that instead of wanting to be more like Presbyterians and use birth control, they want to be more like Bryan Fischer, and believe that the earth is flat, and the Bible can be reduced to its most literal interpretation.

I just understand wanting to use birth control more. Also, the first group has never appointed its own Pope.

I love the baffled quote from the Vatican astronomer. “Who are these people? I don’t get it. Is it some kind of performance art?”