Russia, Ethiopia: mostly orthodox

Cuba, Angola, Congo-Brazzaville: mostly Catholic

Burkina Faso: mostly Muslim

Asian ones: too obvious to discuss

I have an inkling of a theory why

  • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Not aiming this at op, who presumably has an interesting theory cooking, but ngl I’m getting kinda tired of all these ‘left theological’ takes. The forces of reaction are currently sweeping across the west, abetted by an alliance of evangelical and catholic orgs and there are still people who want to blame everything on ‘calvinism’ as if that were useful analysis and not just thinly veiled sectarianism.

      • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        11 days ago

        Catholicism has been way more influential on the US right ever since the nineties. Catholic orgs were instrumental in getting GWB into power and have led the charge in capturing the supreme court, rolling back reproductive rights etc. A majority of SCJs are in fact Catholic, and many leading political figures, including the VP. Catholic dogma informs the social policy around which this block agitates. However, none of this is to say that there is something uniquely problematic about belief in transubstantiation or whatever; my point is that trying to pin political problems on theology is an absolute dead end.