I think I can vouch for the Communists. On Ash Wednesday, here in Houston, the sermon was on GLOBAL WARMING and how Americans use of oil is going to destroy the Earth. It was a recommendation to give up driving a lot for Lent.
I was appauled. Why are American Catholics so liberal? Besides being inaccurate, it was inappropriate. There are many things that would be better to discuss or to recommend giving up. I never hear sermons condemning abortion or the homosexual lifestyle. The Pope does, but not American churches.
It's a combination of the urban, immigrant experience with hostility to rural Americans and the need to distance themselves from their own illiterate bumpkins of yesteryear (for which Fundamentalist Protestants serve as a convenient scapegoat).
"I was appalled. Why are American Catholics so liberal? Besides being inaccurate, it was inappropriate."
American Catholics and American churches is painting with a pretty broad brush, don't you think? That would also include the eastern churches which are about as "liberal" as Margaret Thatcher, not to mention our more traditional bretheren in the western church.
I never hear sermons condemning abortion or the homosexual lifestyle.
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Same here. It's shameful.