Post #2829103
2026-04-19 13:03 UTC
"The American Catholics who voted for Trump are still Catholic. They still attend Mass. They will still receive communion from a priest who answers to the bishop who answers to the pope Trump is attacking. The substrate capture Palmer & Steadman’s mechanism predicts does not require a formal break with the institutional church. It requires only that the public act of communicated acceptance migrate to a more potent object."
#PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2026-04-19 13:03
"Trump offered the more potent object. The fact that the sitting pope is now the one calling this out, by name, in direct and unambiguous terms, and that the American Catholic majority remains unmoved by the call, demonstrates the displacement in its purest observable form. The native egg has gone over the side of the nest. The warbler is looking at the cuckoo and feeding it anyway." #PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism /4