I'm finding a very uncomfortable similarity between this post and . . . well, this post, with "Catholic Church" replaced by "(American/Canadian/German/Australian) Government". The same arguments here that I see used when people say "well, if you don't like this country, you should just go live in a different country!"
The avowed leader of the United States of America has made his own set of horrifying bigoted frequently-trivially-falsifiable statements. The avowed leader of Canada has as well. I don't remember offhand which of those countries you're a citizen of, but I believe it's at least one of them.
Are you planning on leaving this continent?
From my own perspective - The USA has made a bunch of truly horrific ghastly decisions lately, that I disagree with and loathe with every fiber of my political being. However, I still fundamentally agree with the tenets that the USA was founded on, and while I'll quickly add qualifiers, I'd still describe myself as "an American". I think the concept was good, as corrupted as it's becoming now. And while I cringed every time Bush opened his mouth, and said "goddammit I think he's evil, I don't know how he ended up as President", I still considered myself American - I just didn't consider him American.
Perhaps other people feel the same way about Catholic Christianity with regards to the Pope.
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The avowed leader of the United States of America has made his own set of horrifying bigoted frequently-trivially-falsifiable statements. The avowed leader of Canada has as well. I don't remember offhand which of those countries you're a citizen of, but I believe it's at least one of them.
Are you planning on leaving this continent?
From my own perspective - The USA has made a bunch of truly horrific ghastly decisions lately, that I disagree with and loathe with every fiber of my political being. However, I still fundamentally agree with the tenets that the USA was founded on, and while I'll quickly add qualifiers, I'd still describe myself as "an American". I think the concept was good, as corrupted as it's becoming now. And while I cringed every time Bush opened his mouth, and said "goddammit I think he's evil, I don't know how he ended up as President", I still considered myself American - I just didn't consider him American.
Perhaps other people feel the same way about Catholic Christianity with regards to the Pope.