Thread by @kurteichenwald

As Ive mentioned before, I attended seminary classes which led me to understand what hypocrites many conservative religious types are. So let's talk about @USCCB and all the mortal sins they ignore as the Bishops go full MAGA.

You'd be surprised, given their obsessions, that../1

...there are far more Catholic-identified mortal sins than engaging in homosexual acts and having an abortion. Discrimination against LGBTQ people has no foundation in the Bible. Neither does being a politician who is guided by law rather than by the Pope. If the @USCBB.../2

...really believes that standing up for a nation's laws is a mortal sin, then bottom line, theyre saying no Catholic should be in government, because theyre required to let the Pope lead rather than the law.

Be that as it may. Other mortal sins that LOTS of MAGA types commit../3

...No Catholic mortal sin is worse or better than another. And remember: Biden isnt *having* or *performing* abortions, he's abiding by the law, which isnt by any definition a mortal sin. These are:
1. Defrauding workers of wages (James 5:4), as Trump has done 1000s of times.../4

...2. Taking advantage of the poor (Exodus 2:23)
3. Worship, veneration in false gods. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) Lots of MAGA types fall into that.
4. Lying. (Matthew 5:33-34). How many Catholic GOPrs lie?
5. Masturbation. Gonna block anyone who masturbated from the Eucharist?.../5

...it just goes on & on. Pornography, avarice, lustful physical contact, presumption that you can save yourself without God, failing to go to church on Sunday. Their God King falls into every one of these categories, but they praise him from the pulpit.

These hypocrites are.../6

...literally trying to insert themselves between a person and God based solely on a single issue, one that does not even involve a mortal sin (this Catholic mortal sin, again, is *having* or *performing* an abortion, nothing else.) Meanwhile they literally ignore EVERY mortal../7

...sin performed by anyone. All forms of non-defensive killing - murder, euthanasia, execution - are mortal sins. If supporting a woman's right to choose is a mortal sin, imposing a death penalty or supporting it is too. But MAGA trumps actual religion.

I never thought.../8

...the @USCCB would throw themselves off the cliff like this, exposing their utter hypocrisy, their willingness to ignore the Pope, their willingness to proclaim themselves superior to God, let most mortal sins pass while creating a new one because of their MAGA politics.../9

..what the @USCBB is doing is an ABUSE of faith, making garbage up out of whole cloth (identifying as a mortal sin supporting the law, or even supporting others' choice to do something Catholics identify as a mortal sin) while ignoring scores of other ACTUAL Catholic mortal.../10

...sins, shows they are a political organization. A lot of Evangelical Protestantism has fallen down that rat hole & now American Catholic leadership has done the same. A lot of these political organizations are pushing standards that have no basis in the Bible or doctrine.../11

...so, the bottom line: As long as religious organizations twist the Bible and church doctrine to fit a political agenda, treat them like the political groups they are. Tax them.