Sometimes I’m a raving liberal who thinks Christ is literally present in the poor, weak, despised, marginalized, and oppressed because of my Faith.
Other times I’m a backward conservative who thinks Christ is present in the unborn because of my Faith.
Other times I’m a Komminnissist who thinks we should pay the taxes we owe to the Damn Soashulist Liberals who want to engage in class warfare by using the might of the state to protect the weak from the predatory rich–because of my Faith.
Sometimes I’m a damned uppity intellectual who thinks the view and counsel of scientists and others with expertise in their fields should be given priority over folksy imbeciles “did their own research” on Google for 20 minutes and who “just feel in their bones” that whatever dumbass Flat Earthers, Climate Change Deniers, and Anti-Vax Quacks and Cranks say should be believed. Why? Because of my Faith, which teaches me to respect the mind and human learning.
And sometimes I’m a stupid superstitious Bronze Age Weirdo who gapes and grins and believes what he is told despite the complete inability of Science to prove that God literally became a human being and that every Mass, He transforms bread and wine into his literal body, blood, spirit, soul, and divinity, because of my Faith.
I am large. I contain multitudes.
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Yep. Bravo.
Me too. Well said.
Hallelujah!! Me too
Yes, I’m not alone.
I look liberal when I’m with conservatives, and conservative when I’m with liberals, and sometimes I feel the truth of not having a home on this earth! I like to think my “faith” in science leads me to see the humanity in that unborn child, too – a unique, unrepeatable being developing at an exponential rate, a whole new universe in one small package that is getting larger every day – someone growing toward birth just like you did…a phenomenon to reverence, not destroy.