Frankly, being unilaterally opposed to Catholicism is strictly a net good, it is the essence of virtue Ideally every non-Catholic would consider themselves in a state of active, open, take-no-fucking-prisoners war with Catholicism at all times
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The Catholic Church is the actual, literal, definitive villain of the entire story of humanity
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George Orwell has a famous thing where he goes off about how the reason he hates anti-Catholic xenophobic conspiracy theories so much is that they've ruined your ability to just honestly hate Catholics
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Specifically he once said "The Catholic Church is a sinister organization" and then a bunch of people started roping him in with John Birch-style xenophobes and accusing him of being anti-Irish and whatnot and he got mad
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Like, they ARE a sinister organization Not because they have sinister ties to some secret Antichrist conspiracy or whatnot The stuff they do IN PUBLIC, the stuff THEY SAY that they're SUPPOSED to do, is sinister
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They are the stated enemy of human freedom and progress They straight up tell you that human freedom and progress are bad things, that they're the basis of sin Come on
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Anyway I read a very angry hot take against Orwell from some Irish guy a while ago where he says that he thinks Orwell made O'Brien in 1984 Irish on purpose, and that Orwell's angry screeds against Catholicism are clearly just because he hates Irish people It was pretty annoying
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"I have found that when an Englishman wants to attack the Irish people without doing so directly, he always begins by attacking our church" ...But it's NOT EVEN YOUR CHURCH IT'S RUN BY A BUNCH OF ITALIANS
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Anyway this kind of take used to be very common in Ireland before, say, the late '90s/early 2000s Sinead O'Connor, who was the controversial figurehead for the backlash against the Church, bluntly says that she grew up in a theocracy
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E.B. in the NYT's whole big rant about how awful it was that JFK had to constantly reassure everyone that he would absolutely not be taking orders from the Pope if he became President Even though, while there was a lot of bigotry against him, it was correct for him to say that
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Because, if the President actually were, in fact, taking orders from the Pope, that would be a very bad thing It's a scurrilous accusation because it's an accusation of something that, if it really happened, would be bad
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Cf. Sinead O'Connor's blistering J'Accuse against the whole government of Ireland and how for generations the Taioseach actually WAS taking orders from the Pope -- or, at the very least, knew he could not make any decisions that would receive condemnation from the Pope
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Which meant that a whole massive network of institutional abuse by the church was completely immune to investigation or prosecution by the state
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