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Religion as a personal moral underpinning to life is perfect.

Religion in politics is always evil because ultimately it is about justifying political power though "the end justifies the means"

Secular ideologies can end up similarly; it is unavoidable with religion as it's all about life and death.

Politicians that insist on religious values almost always want these to apply to others, not to themselves.

#God#Trump#Musk
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Pope Francis said:

“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” he wrote. “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan’ . . . that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

#God#Trump#Musk

JD Vance and ‘Pagan Christianity’?

The rights and wrongs of politicians ‘doing #God

It’s always awkward when you’re feeling smug about having won a social media spat over the nature of Christian love, and then the literal Pope comes along and tells you you’re wrong

That was the fate of Donald #Trump’s number two last week — no, not Elon #Musk, but vice-president #JDVance. He converted from #Atheism to #Catholicism in 2019, choosing as his patron Saint Augustine who first wrote, in the fifth century AD, about the idea on which this distinctly 21st-century spat centered’

#christianity #christiannationalism
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