It makes conservative Catholics in the US extremely angry that their ideological foils (which hilariously includes the Pope!) never teach or promote overt theological errors while they, the great orthodox and faithful ones, do it on the daily and even rely upon it to survive.
No one is beyond reproach. Everyone's ideas deserve scrutiny, but that is not the same as promoting heresy or directly challenging Church teaching. On that matter, I've never said a single word that is unorthodox or heretical in all my public work.
Same goes for someone like Fr. Martin whose work I do not know very well but whom they are obsessed with. A critic might say we are careful in bad faith, questioning our motivations, but even that merely highlights how absolutely and totally sloppy and messy they are.
It is not a both sides issue. The plain and obvious reality is that the right wing fantasy of them being firmly on the side of Church and everyone they disagree with being against it is an inverted pipe-dream which they openly and frequently contradict and fail to deliver on.
Put up or shut up, I say. Learn the actual rules and play by them or stop pretending to be the rigorist in the room. The real, credible rigorists are the ones who do not screw the most basic things up through disobedience, defiance, conspiracy theory, and elementary mistakes.
Like, look geniuses, you have turned against the POPE! Sorry, pals, this whole Roman Catholic rigorism game is not going to go well for you. You are the clown mass protestants. Repent and believe, and your house in order before trying to make culture war. Your culture is anemic.
You are scared and mad and, frankly, really dumb. You fall for easy to spot scams in every season and move from one false prophet to the next one like lemmings, all the while playing a make-believe game of dress up and self congratulatory triumphalism. You are the sad joke here.
You love to ridicule your opponents in your safe spaces, but your antics over time reveal that you are the only ridiculous people in this whole affair. Your only strength is brute power through the pocketbook, but even that gains you nothing as you let grifters rob you blind.
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