Thursday open thread: The Catholic Church's pact with the devil

Well, howdy friends. It seems that Marjorie the Three-toed has a few things to say about the holy, Roman, catholic, and apostolic church:

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia and far-right conspiracy theorist, has unleashed her latest political attack on the Catholic Church. And the Catholic Church isn’t happy.

Or mind you, the Catholic League isn’t happy.

Greene, while talking with right-wing activist Michael Voris of Church Militant (via Mediaite), said that “Satan’s controlling the church” and that U.S. Bishops have “taken enormous sums of money from the federal government, federal taxpayers to assist in illegal immigration, some refugee resettlement also.”

Now, friends: I grew up Catholic. And my Catholic upbringing gave me much of my moral compass. That includes, yes, helping immigrants and refugees. This is something which the Church has done for centuries. It has many faults, but its adherence to a social gospel isn't one of them. And, growing up Catholic, I heard pronouncement from rabid evangelicals like Three-toes often. As I wrote the other day, the most common slur is that Catholics aren't real Christians. 

Catholic leadership knows all this. But many in that leadership have made a pact with the devil, an unholy alliance with right-wing evangelicals in order to oppose abortion and gay rights. This alliance is redolent of the one that right-wing Jews in Israel have made with the same people. These Jews want to build the Third Temple; their so-called allies also want this, because it will herald the Second Coming—where they expect most Jews to die in fire. Such marriages are, to put it mildly, odd, and perplexing. Ally with a group which does not recognize your humanity as a Jew or a Catholic because of immediate necessity. 

What do the bishops and rabbis think would happen were the US ever to be taken over by these ragamuffins? Of course, they don't think about that, because they are serene in their own beliefs. But right-wing evangelicals have the influence they do in the world because they make these alliances with other groups which they see as Satan's children. Cynicism abounds on all sides. But this cynicism leads to real-world tragedies. And your ally of today may be sending you to the gas chamber tomorrow. Out of sheer self-interest, the bishops and rabbis and others who make deals with people who, at heart, don't consider them fully human should become a thing of the past. But it won't, because human beings are strange creatures, and when power and wealth come into the mix many can't see beyond their own noses at the greater good.

Oh well. I'm sure the likes of Cardinal Dolan will see this as a small price to pay. They'll be able to deal with the evangelicals after abortion is made illegal and gays are sent to reeducation camps. Surely those camps won't be used on Catholics or anyone else. Surely.

This is your open thread.