Paul Ryan is Catholic is name only.

[Drahthaardogs]

Only Protestants believe in salvation in faith alone. Catholics believe in faith demonstrated through works. So we must judge him by his works, which sums up the Republican position very well...


What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?

So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Indeed someone may say, “You have faith and I have works.” Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.

Global warming you say? A hoax says Ryan. What does Catholicism say about this?

It is a mortal sin against the Holy Spirit to have deliberate resistance to a known truth.

The Vatican is full of scientist and the Pope has spoken to this issue. Everyone knows it's real, but it hurts big oil and coal so Paul plays stupid and denies.

Finally, what about his glee at opressing the poor via his Randian philosophy?

There are particular mortal sins that are so evil that they are said to be sins that cry to heaven for vengeance, including oppression of the poor and defrauding workers of their just wages.

Paul Ryan is a shitty Catholic and if you adhere to the religion, must conclude his soul is in grave danger of hell.

[delisen]

1. Well his hero, Ayn Rand, was an atheist, a godless anti-communist

[Still In Wisconsin]

2. I'm a Jew, and even I know this...

Paul Ryan is no Catholic.

[Chasstev365]

3. Deny him communion!

You can worship Ayn Rand and be a good, practicing Catholic!

[Drahthaardogs]

4. Agreed.

His Bill is a grave issue. He should not receive the Body nor the Blood.

[safeinOhio]

5. His hero Ayn Rand said in 1999

"I Want to be known as the greatest enemy of religion".

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

6. "must conclude his soul is in grave danger of hell."

I hope to live long enough to applaud his arrival there.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Paul Ryan is a hypocritical piece of shit.

I hope he burns in hell with the rest of his evil kind.

[hunter]

8. Plenty of right wing authoritarian Catholics.

My parents used to live in a town that was full of them.

Fortunately I don't live in a place like that.

In another universe I can easily picture Ryan kissing Franco's fascist ass.

[Drahthaardogs]

11. It's one thing to be a right wing authoritarian

It's quite another to perpetuate laws that steal from the poor and give it to the rich.

This transcends authoritarian behavior exuded by many of the modern day Pharisees.

[hunter]

13. Catholics gone bad. That's what we call 'em.

Pence is another.

"Steal from the poor and give it to the rich" is an authoritarian trait, they have very concrete opinions about who "deserves" to be poor, just as the Prosperity Theology Protestant Christians do.

They are the chosen ones, as demonstrated by their wealth an political power or their aspirations of such, no matter how unlikely that may be.

[pnwmom]

17. Pence isn't even nominally a Catholic. He was born one but left the church long ago. n/t

[tazkcmo]

9. I'm not going to hold it against him.

It's his assholery that I hate.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Speaking as one who was raised Catholic you are correct.

[Crash2Parties]

12. If he tries to make all abortions illegal & fights LGBT equality, he is a Good Catholic.

Those are Cannon or Church Law, as well as what is preached from the pulpit.

None of the GOP in Congress or the White House can be said to act in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ. They use religion to manipulate their base & to scare them into voting GOP. Are they Christian? Sure. There are tens of thousands of different Christian sects, often with differing or even mutually opposed beliefs. Do their actions match the words of Jesus or actively oppose the same, while they give lip service?

Christian is as Christian does, as they say.

[mopinko]

14. i'm bettin his bishop is not real happy w him.

since the catholic church runs a lot of hospitals, i cant imagine he is in very good standing right now.
and since, if this comes to pass, the catholic hospitals will have to do a whole lot more charity care, i bet they are really, really unhappy w him.

i assume that, like cook county hospital here, the aca has been a real windfall to the catholic systems. for the first time in decades, cook county has more insured patients than uninsured.
they have invested heavily in preventive and primary care.

i'm thinkin seeing hospitals in the black makes them want the aca to stick.
prepare for the backlash lil paulie.

[democratisphere]

15. Paul Ryan looks and acts like Satan.

[Cha]

16. A special type of monster..

Link to tweet

[Doug the Dem]

18. It's a General Trend

Today's Republicans are Christian in name only, regardless of denomination.