Inconsistencies of politicised religion

from Catholic Democrats

This was put out as promotional material. The two major political parties will each have a Catholic vice-presidential candidate. The Democrat, Joseph Biden, believes in the 'Catholic Social Justice Tradition'. The Republican, Paul Ryan, believes in unbounded capitalism. Biden has been ridiculed for not editing his comments. Ryan is an aggressive, testy liar; but considered the boy genius of his party. His political and economic beliefs are identical to the party's last vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. Palin is now unwelcome in the official campaign, because she is considered to be a 'rogue', and an idiot.

 

 Social Darwinism [survival of the fittest] is the Republican's Godless, materialistic, social-economic programme

Religion is odd in American politics. When [1960] John Kennedy wanted to be president, his Catholicism was a huge interest of political debate. The conservative Protestant clergy [including national figures such as Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale] of the time were actively against him. John Bennett, Dean of Union Theological Seminary at the time, recognised a "Protestant underworld that stirs up undisguised hatred of Catholics".  It was still evident when [2004] John Kerry ran, there was still much ground talk against him as a Catholic. But an odd element was added to this, many Catholic clergymen, especially the bishopry and other ambitious sorts had become Republican. The Catholic Church officially demands the clergy to be neutral, but many actively promoted the candidacy of Kerry's opponent, and permitted distribution of literature [propaganda] against the Catholic candidate on church grounds.

Now [2012], we have seen the Republican underworld suggest, previously, that Barack Obama was  part of a black militant Protestantism, and then a crypto-Moslem. For both fictive reasons [though mutually contradictory] his candidacy was and is opposed. Now, we see the Republican candidate for the presidency, Willard Romney, to be a polytheist, and a former bishop in his 'church'; and there is no conservative [or liberal] objection.