re: #32 SpaceJesus

I worry about any Jews or Catholics who are taken in by the rhetoric of the modern conservatives which includes terms like “Christian Coalition” or “Judeo-Christian Heritage.” The people who made these terms up are evangelicals, who don’t like —and never have liked— Jews or Catholics, but who know they need us in order to hang on to power.

That’s always been a concern of mine too SJ. Thsee are the the ideological descendants of the same people who said Al Smith and JFK were basically ineligible to be president because of their Catholicism. And said Catholic immigrants would be more loyal to Rome than the US, I guess that’s why it bothers me to see Catholics adapting rhetoric like “seperation of church and state is bad.” It was that very doctrine that appealed to so many of our ancestors. It’s why I have little doubt that was appealing to my own.