Just a reminder that not only is Eric Schmitt one of the dumbest members of Congress he's also an open white supremacist. If the Axios story is true that Vance wants him as his running mate in 2028 it says a lot about Vance wants.
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Anti-Catholicism
Chick tracts have been referred to as "arguably one of the most successful contemporary attempts to construct Roman Catholicism as a social problem". No fewer than 20 of the tracts are devoted to Catholicism, including Are Roman Catholics Christians?, The Death Cookie (a polemic against the Catholic Eucharist), and Why Is Mary Crying? (arguing that Mary does not support the veneration Catholicism gives her).
Several Chick tracts, along with six full-length comics, have featured the ideas of anti-Catholic conspiracy theorist Alberto Rivera, such as claims that the Catholic Church created Islam, Communism, and Nazism. In The New Anti-Catholicism, religious historian Philip Jenkins describes Chick tracts as promulgating "bizarre allegations of Catholic conspiracy and sexual hypocrisy" to perpetuate "anti-papal and anti-Catholic mythologies". Michael Ian Borer, a sociology professor at Furman University, described Chick's strong anti-Catholic themes in a 2007 American Sociological Association presentation[19] and in a peer-reviewed article the next year in Religion and American Culture.
Chick's eschatological beliefs include "the Catholic Church [creating] a one-world government and [ruling] the world via the last pope, who is possessed by Satan."
Chick tracts also portray Islam as a false religion created by the Roman Catholic church, which is under the influence of Satan.
In Chick's view, "right theology and a knowledge of evil's true nature are the proper defense against the satanic onslaught of a godless (Catholic) media."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tggnypgiqns732yimqq7w553/bafkreiccf2iejkug52qak4qblqsfyvobqoxtauoht2rtoamp7hrcsu53aa)
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ENRICH
So many. I mean, this was the problem of what happens when you hollow out an agency of its expertise and replace it with people who really have no idea what these programs are. I mean, I was trying to describe the impacts of malaria, I believe, to one of our senior political appointees, and he said, "Whoa, whoa, slow down. Is there any way you can do this in, like, Barney-style slides, so so that we can understand, as non-health people?"
[Current Affairs' Nathan J.] ROBINSON
Referring to the children's, the dinosaur—
NICHOLAS ENRICH
—that children's dinosaur, to describe how malaria works and why it's a danger. There was another political appointee who told me, when I was pushing to restart lifesaving Ebola activities, he told me just that Ebola is a scam.
ROBINSON
That's..I never.. I haven't, I haven't actually heard that conspiracy before.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tggnypgiqns732yimqq7w553/bafkreigupcopo7ecok37t4huzafw6skho574y3onhecxpwyulx6orvqcfa)
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So in 2003 the actor decided to help change things back to the way they were, building a chapel in Malibu, Calif. – The Church of the Holy Family. Tucked away in the tree-covered mountains of Agoura Hills, 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the rustic church, unaffiliated with the Roman Catholic archdiocese, has a foot-tall crucifix on the altar and the priest keeps his back to the parishioners as he performs mass every morning entirely in Latin. In church, women must wear head coverings.
Among traditionalists, there is a more extreme group affiliated with the ultra-conservative stream of Catholicism known as Sedevacantism, meaning, “the seat [of the papacy] is empty.” They believe there has been no legitimate pope since 1958. Gibson hasn’t said he shares that belief, though his father, Hutton Gibson, is a well known anti-Vatican II activist and author of the book Is the Pope Catholic?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tggnypgiqns732yimqq7w553/bafkreifibvhymx5xkl3s56qewwrotfywd6sfwggbrmij6s7ulqegbotdte)
