Oh man, seriously! Loved reading your thoughts on this. I was wondering what all the fuss was about, and so I also skimmed the transcript of his actual speech. (Btw, something I have learned to do now, since people are ALWAYS taking things out of context.) It's exactly how you explained it, a catholic man was talking about his catholic beliefs. How people are always surprised about that, baffles me! People are shocked when a christian believes abortion is wrong, when those who hold beliefs about traditional marriage say those out loud, and when catholics say things like birth control is wrong. Why are people outraged when a person of a certain faith, actually hold the views of their faith??? This is my theory: I think it's because we live in an era of "buffet-style" values. Where people like to pick and choose which parts of their religion they actually want to hold to. If it is really that easy to modify your religion to your preference, then what is even sacred about it? It's all just a sham! I've never understood any of that. But the mindset now expects people to only hold to the parts of their faith that are socially accepted, so I think that is what they are demanding. The stupidity of cancel culture and all these things on the internet is truly maddening.
It is very strange. I recall Chip and Joanna Gaines going through something similar. Just like in this case, I don't know anything about them and haven't seen any of their shows or whatever, but I do recall seeing news that their sponsors either canceling their sponsorships or threatening to do so because—shocker—they were conservative Christians who went to a church where the pastor preached from the Bible. Crazy stuff.
Oh man, seriously! Loved reading your thoughts on this. I was wondering what all the fuss was about, and so I also skimmed the transcript of his actual speech. (Btw, something I have learned to do now, since people are ALWAYS taking things out of context.) It's exactly how you explained it, a catholic man was talking about his catholic beliefs. How people are always surprised about that, baffles me! People are shocked when a christian believes abortion is wrong, when those who hold beliefs about traditional marriage say those out loud, and when catholics say things like birth control is wrong. Why are people outraged when a person of a certain faith, actually hold the views of their faith??? This is my theory: I think it's because we live in an era of "buffet-style" values. Where people like to pick and choose which parts of their religion they actually want to hold to. If it is really that easy to modify your religion to your preference, then what is even sacred about it? It's all just a sham! I've never understood any of that. But the mindset now expects people to only hold to the parts of their faith that are socially accepted, so I think that is what they are demanding. The stupidity of cancel culture and all these things on the internet is truly maddening.
It is very strange. I recall Chip and Joanna Gaines going through something similar. Just like in this case, I don't know anything about them and haven't seen any of their shows or whatever, but I do recall seeing news that their sponsors either canceling their sponsorships or threatening to do so because—shocker—they were conservative Christians who went to a church where the pastor preached from the Bible. Crazy stuff.
Oh man, I had never heard that. We watched their show a lot in the past. All this stuff is so dumb, dumb, dumb!
It is truly ridiculous.