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I agree with you. It seems like the bishops have forgotten how suspicious people were of Catholics in a United States then dominated by Protestantism. A lot of it was due to religious and political differences.

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Dominionism Kathy, has built a bridge between Evangelicals and trad Catholics

Problem is that Americans, even liberals, are not familiar with Dominionism, Christian Reconstruction, Christofascist.

Here is what we are up against, it has other names like New Apostolic Reformation (Mike Johnson) or Opus Dei (Kevin Roberts and the Supreme 6) it is an inter denominational movement.

Here is the enemy exposed. It tries to hide behind the Chalcedon Society.

https://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/fundienazis/royal_race.htm

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Every year SCOTUS attends the Catholic Red Mass traditionally on the Sunday before the first Monday in October, which marks the opening of the Court's annual term. Incredibly even Breyer, a Jew, would attend.

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For me, the Catholic mumbo-jumbo does not equate with reading and interpreting law. Religion is magical thinking based on myths. The only mass SCOTUS should worry about is the mass of people their rulings affect.

Very much appreciate your expertise, Daniel, and the historical info.

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Thanks. I once asked Breyer what the hell he was doing by attending the Red Mass. I have attended mass many times, went to Catholic school but my parents pulled me out after I called the Rabbi Father Lipschitz. Nothing wrong with ecumenicism. But there is no mention of a god, be it Deist, Presbyterian or Baal in the Constitution. The joke is that when the Constitution was written Catholics and Jews could not take the oath of office in most of the states.

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When I attended Mass, the priest would end his sermon with "That is the word of the lord".

I would choke, because he was playing ventriloquist. It is the same with protestant preachers, they make pretense that they are channeling their god.

All of them use something called god as a sock puppet.

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This is true, and I saw it happening in the early 1980s.

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The nativists considered the Irish to be non white, There were signs on lawns, Irish and dogs keep off. You've surely seen the movie Gangs of New York. A dramatization of real life and real people.

When the Irish lost their brogue, their skin color enabled them to become Anglo Saxon (incidentally my DNA is mostly Irish) And now the Irish are as anti Black and brown racist as any Anglo Saxon. Think Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Boston socks, how about the Boston anti bussing riots.

Catholics were discriminated against in Protestant America, they gain power and become the aggressor.

Victim today, victimizer tomorrow.

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