“Hopefully, you are not ...”
I post these questions rhetorically. I’m actually Catholic and conservative.
I threw those out there because I disagree stereotypical arguments, i.e., if you are in this group, you must think this way, etc..
Same goes for Catholicism and liberalism.
Even though I am against abortion, I can understand how a Catholic politician could vote to allow its legality.
I’ve heard it asked many times, “how can a Catholic support legalized abortion?”
Well, I can understand that. I pose the scenario of the First Commandment and Freedom of Religion as an analogy.
In the same sense, I think it is quite possible for someone to be liberal and Catholic.
To explain this, you’d need a liberal though, which I am not.
I can only imagine the argument that a particular individual’s belief on a given assortment of issues covers a range of values. I.e., if liberals stand for 10 “talking points” then two individuals identifying themselves as a liberal would likely have different results if tested as to, on a scale of 1 to 10, how strongly they agreed with the talking points.
I guess my bottom line is that the question of liberalism/catholicism, is a nonsensical one. The reality is that people have a variety of beliefs to varying degrees.
So maybe you could say my first post was “kicking the anthil”, but I put it to you that the question leading this thread is what is kicking the anthill.
Hope this makes sense. I was typing fast.