(April 6, 2017 at 8:13 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Catholics are pretty politically diverse. There are plenty of liberals, but plenty of conservatives, too. It's hard because there are Catholic issues on both sides of the fence. The official Catholic stance on abortion is right wing, but their stance on the death penalty is left wing, for example.
No, EVERY label is politically diverse. Even atheists.
The Vatican at is core has to constantly be drug kicking and screaming to get up with the times. Pope John Paul was considered far too liberal to those even within the ranks. Pope Benedict pulled the church back to the social right. Frances went more to the center. But even he pissed me off with his comments about Hebdo. And he placated homophobe Kim Davis. He has literally said one thing to the west about marriage only to later go to parts of Asia to say "we need to defend traditional marriage".
Even atheists miss my point. Labels don't constitute empathy, our ability to have compassion is in our evolution, not the labels we assign ourselves or others. I have run into plenty of economic right atheists or libertarian atheists while they might agree that gays and pot smoking are fine, still have the same "fuck you I got mine" "all taxes are robbery" that right wingers of theism advocate.
Conversely I have also run into Che supporting atheists who stupidly think you can rid a planet of 7 billion of the private sector and I find that equally absurd.
Liberals and conservatives exist in every religion and even atheists.
