TSF calls on Pres. Biden to apologize to both Catholics and Christians

[TheBlackAdder]

Trump's campaign demanded Biden apologize for declaring Easter as "Trans Visibility Day," but the former president's own former advisor blew apart that claim by showing that the date for Trans Visibility Day was set 10 years ago and Biden wasn't involved.
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"We call on Joe Biden's failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only," the statement says.

Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias asked, "Is Trump’s campaign drawing a distinction here between 'Catholics' and 'Christians?'"

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-slur-catholics-christians/

It was no accident, he probably thinks they are different. Yet, didn't he appoint three Catholics to SCOTUS?

[elleng]

1. and those 'other than' Catholics and Christians, idjots???

[shrike3]

2. Evangelicals think Catholics and Christians are two different things.

Where he got the language, I imagine.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

3. This Is True. They Also Tend To Think "Blacks" And "Americans" Are Different Things

Just like Mitch McConnell let slip a while back.

[shrike3]

7. I didn't hear that, re Mitch. Yikes.

[usonian]

10. Snopes says:

Did Mitch McConnell Distinguish 'African Americans' From 'Americans'?
YES

Manríquez: Leader McConnell, what's your message for voters of color who are concerned that without the John L. Lewis Voting Rights Act, they're not going to be able to vote in the midterms?

McConnell: Well, the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mitch-mcconnell-african-americans/

Definition of the GOP: racist, racist, racist, racist, racist ...

[malaise]

21. THIS

Rec

[shrike3]

25. Wow. Forgot about that one. Worse than his glitches.

[Lovie777]

30. Weird isn't it..........................

they are all considered Christians. I'm Christian Methodist Episcopal but alas the rate these psycho evangelists are headed most of the Christian denominations will be considered non and avoid because in these psychos' brains they are the pure one.

[shrike3]

32. I'm afraid you're right.

Have a Happy Easter, nonetheless.

[DBoon]

43. I heard Catholics referred to as "idol worshippers"

[shrike3]

44. I have, too.

[Rebl2]

45. Before my

husband retired he had an evangelical he worked with say Catholicism was a cult.

[FHRRK]

47. exactly this

Talk to a fundy, they barely tolerate Catholics

[DemocraticPatriot]

48. So Trump just managed to insult all the Catholics...

[Blue Owl]

4. The real story is that tRump broadcasts his breathtaking stupidity during a religious holiday

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Waiting for his obligatory heathenistic or smut posts on Easter. Remember, the day is only about TRUMP!

Me, Me, Me, Me, Oh, there's that Jesus guy. I'm the second coming. Me, Me, Me...

"Nobody was more persecuted than Trump. Jesus had it easy, I tell you."

[Drum]

5. Pffft--T**mp "calls on Biden" from what authority exactly, as bible salesman?

[Cha]

8. TSF Apologize for being.

[tirebiter]

9. TSF?

Are people throwing out random letters now?

[usonian]

11. The Sick F**k.

[usedtobedemgurl]

12. It is what Biden called him.

It has been going around for weeks now. It is easy to overlook.

[usonian]

13. Hey, Donnie sicko, suck on this.

[Eugene]

14. It's a very, very long time since I last heard that phrase.

It mostly came from a Pentecostal zealot college classmate
who was sharing vile anti-Catholic propaganda.

Apparently MF45 didn't get the memo saying that
conservative Christians are supposed to be on same team.

[JHB]

37. But he did get the memo, a different one

Remember, his background is New York City. Making a distinction between Catholics and "Christians" (meaning certain varieties of, shall we say, "religiously correct" Protestants) is not something you readily pick up in that environment (although with Fred Trump as a father, I guess anything is possible).

That distinction is a lot more prominent in heavily Protestant fundamentalist/evangelical areas, where anti-Catholic propaganda that may as well come from the 1500s is part of the landscape.

Whoever wrote that for Trump worded it -- either by reflex or in an attempt to cater to certain parties -- to take the radical evangelical position. Catholics were "on the same team" by being mentioned at all.

[EYESORE 9001]

15. I think he mentioned Catholics specifically to draw the President into the fray

Joe Biden is too smart to fall into this trap baited with malarkey.

[dalton99a]

16. Hey Catholics: Trump doesn't think you are Christians

[Ms. Toad]

17. Trump did not invent the distinction.

I'm always am amazed that when Trump says something people assume he made it up out of whole cloth, without checking to see if it is a real thing. (Not just you - the author of the tweet, the OP, others in this thread, etc.)

One of many references for the concept: https://g3min.org/roman-catholicism-is-not-christianity/

[stopdiggin]

18. the fact that there are a handful that believe this

(Catholics not Christians) does not immunize it from being hopelessly ignorant twaddle.

And - when emanating from the mouth of Trump - who is about as clueless and shorn of religion as anyone we have ever seen in high office - it become doubly ignorant and artless twaddle.

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. Irrelevant

He still made the distinction. Just because someone didn’t “invent” the N word, they don’t get a pass for saying it.

[Hope22]

35. Religion was invented to control the masses.

I accompanied my Baptist sister to church as her caregiver. When she was in Idaho the words from the pulpit fought with the Mormons. When we moved her to Ohio, I was thankful, thinking the message would cease….oops it turns out the Catholics were not real Christians. It never ends!

[JHB]

38. We need more videos of evangelicals blurting out "Catholics aren't Christian!" put in front of Catholic voters

A lot of Catholics have never been directly exposed to that sort of stuff, and it comes as quite a shock. Particularly when they realize that much of the talk about "Christian values" was coming from people who didn't include them as Christians.

[unweird]

40. I've been trying to explain this to my wife

She was raised Ukrainian Orthodox and switched/converted (?) to Roman Catholic. And hasn’t been exposed to the Baptist/evangelical concept of their own singular salvation. Growing up in the Bible Belt I am well acquainted with much of their dogma.

[spanone]

20. Demand all you want mr. SickFuck.

[obamanut2012]

22. Catholics are Christians

[TxGuitar]

23. In fact, weren't Catholics

The original Christians?

[WA-03 Democrat]

27. St. Peter

Never knew him

[LiberalFighter]

24. I didn't know Easter was celebrated on March 31st every year.

[boston bean]

28. It doesn't.

[AllaN01Bear]

33. easter is a what we call a moveable feast . also the draw of the calander and a few other factors.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Blasphemous Bible Hawking Jesus Wannabe sez WHAT???

[Hope22]

36. LOL! 😂 n /t

[Biophilic]

29. If trump wins the election the religious wars are not going to be pretty.

Seriously, they will keep fighting to see who gets the most power. I don't think it will get as bloody as the Protestant-Catholic wars of the past, but there are a lot of hidden feelings that will be allowed to come out. I remember my parents being appalled when John Kennedy was running because he was a Catholic and "a Catholic should never be president because they can't be trusted." My parents were upper middle class, college educated and considered themselves relatively liberal for republicans. All hatred and those feelings went back underground after Kennedy was elected. When strong feelings are simply pushed down and not acknowledged they don't go away, they just wait for another opportunity to fight.

[Hope22]

39. Even today...

Our village decorates for Winter holidays and this year for the first time our Postmaster decided to join the festivities. Greenery and bows were set and all was well. Easter rolls around and out came some type of egg signs or bunnies or some such thing that clearly defined Easter. The postmaster was asked to take the decorations down due to the religious nature on government buildings. Well did that stir up half of the people. The decorations were removed but the disgruntled on the local FB page keep bringing up the issue. This week a local woman died. She was an outspoken soul. This morning on the post office lawn there is a life size cardboard cut out of this woman, propped in a lawn chair. Easter eggs hang from the bushes and trees with signs reading Happy Easter and Please take and egg. Inside the eggs are bible verses. In the center of town a dead woman cut out sits. It is really something. The ‘persecuted’ carry their perceived slight forever. I too think when the violence begins it will get ugly fast!

[Biophilic]

41. Yup. One more reason why we must win the house and senate as well as the Presidency.

[AllaN01Bear]

31. snork. today is also trans vis day. always has been stinkybutt,

[AllaN01Bear]

34. the moral majiority is neither and either and pat roberson and donald trump dont represent me .

sry for the runon, its the only way i could express myself at the time .

[LuckyCharms]

42. I call on The Sick Fuck to shut the fuck up. n/t

[DenaliDemocrat]

46. lol. What a dumbass!

Insulting Catholics by separating them from Christianity. Plus he left out the Orthodox entirely.

[area51]

49. #DementiaDonnie: "Catholics and Christians"

WTF? Well, well, well: what will little Mikey Flynn do now that he's heard that his lord & master Trump thinks he's not a Christian?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. Stephanie Ruhl fact checks the far right lie that Biden proclaimed Easter Sunday as Trans Day of Visibility

Link to tweet