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Actually, any reasonably well-taught Catholic knows tsat climate science per se is outside of the pope's competence...

And how many of those would be "true Scotsmen"? The description sounds a bit Scottish...

[i'll skip the questioning about "t-sat" sort of climate science, figgering you must know sumpthin' i don't]

About half of American [Roman] Catholics vote for the climate ninny, chicken little support apparatus, otherwise known as the Democrat Party. (the apparatus supports ninnys and chickens -- not the sky).

So much for "well taught".

Evangelicals, even those who are merely descended from Scotsmen (some of whom now live in Appalachian mobile home parks) are apparently blessed with superior political instincts.

Not all of the so-called "Protestants" could be regarded as Evangelical though. The 8-12% who consistently vote for the Wrong Party are generally not Evangelical.

(I always wondered why, from when I was just a wee lad, the high- church Episcopalian types seemed like foreigners is some way...now I understand a little better as for that "why". Some of them actually like movies such as Rocky Horror Picture Show. I mean, reaaly like it.)

Now if we could just do something about the prosperity-gospel, stealth cargo-cultists on the t.v., and tamp down the big hair crowd (send a few of them through good 'ol automated car-warshes to scrub off the layers of pancake make-up, while we'd be doing this tamping down thing) then as we [ahem] 'progress' along the pathways of The Fall of the Roman Empire, Part Deux, we all, as Americans, could hold our heads up a little higher (fwiw -- which if the whole things crashes, the overall "worth" would be---> not much).

Thank you for the critique of the suspiciously scottish-sounding phrase "reasonably well-taught Catholic," although I don't think it'd true-scotsman as much as a practical synonym. What the Catholic Church teaches is knowable (check the catechism), and knowing this is part of what we call "reasonably well taught" by definition.

As for Caths who endorse various stupidities in the Democratic platform --- or who go along with the inanities of certain top House Republicans -- they can't support that by catechism, nor are such subjects within the scope of the pope's competence.

But your remarks are well-meant and smilingly received.

As for the Protestant cargo cults and their wives with the big hair...