You have expanded Roman Catholicism, to include all Christian religions, to make that point. If you stick to just the RC Church, your point fails.Callafangers wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:15 amCatholics/Christians also have dozens or hundreds of different national interests -- that accounts for dozens or hundreds of different tribal interests, bound only by their religious faith (and even that is fragmented into many denominations having little or connection to one another, especially across national borders).HansHill wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:08 amIt also hilariously demonstrates the point rather than disproves it. Despite Christian countries having Christian interests, they are mostly powerless to actually enforce poltical or societal influence in the West (ie, powerless to stop abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism, ME wars and so on and so forth).Callafangers wrote: ↑Thu Oct 09, 2025 7:56 am Nessie's latest spam is a lazy Wikipedia dump of Catholic groups
Thanks for demonstrating the point, Nessie.
Can you list a RC organisation that encourages loyalty to the host nation, over loyalty to the Papacy?Note that there are hardly any parent organizations for these Catholic groups on the list, let alone ones which unite them along social and political lines intent on things like political subversion or empowerment, loyalty to a given foreign nation, media control, etc.
This isn't the case with Jews, who frequently share the same national loyalty ('Israel'), no matter what country they are occupying. Even if we say "not all Jews", the patterns in Jewish organizational development show beyond dispute that it's a metric shitload of them who do maintain this foreign loyalty.
Can anyone list the Jewish organizations that explicitly encourage Jewish loyalty to the host nation over loyalty to Israel?
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Roman Catholics have very specific interests, that they, throughout history, have imposed all over the world. Ireland is a very good example of church vs nation. The power of the RC church, especially over family life, destroyed many Irish lives, from children being left to die, imprisonment of their mothers if they were unmarried, homosexuality being illegal and the prevention of divorce and abortions. Many Irish people saw such repression, as against Irish nationalism and its genral, historic fight for freedom, but until very recently, the Church dominated. The Roman Catholics put their religion in front of nationalism. It is just in the last few decades, that has changed, and nationalism has become more influential. Women no longer get punished for illegitimate children. Homosexuality is legal.
Where does the RC church call for acceptance of national practices, over its religious teachings and for RCs to ignore church rulings over issues such as divorce?