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\u2026two popes and all the bishops of the world said invading Iraq was a massively stupid idea that did not meet the criteria for Just War\u2013and that it would result in calamity.<\/a><\/p>\n

American conservative Christianists said, \u201cScrew \u2019em.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!\u201d and embarked on a catastrophe for which we are still paying a steep cost and for which millions of people in the region have paid with their lives.<\/p>\n

Naturally, in atonement for this crime against humanity, we are now telling the teeming millions displaced by our feckless stupidity that they are invaders and that we owe them nothing and will bar them from entry and kick them out if they are here.<\/p>\n

And the Christianists who declared their stupid decision a \u201cprudential judgement\u201d that allowed them to ignore the Church\u2019s guidance?\u00a0 61% of right leaning\/GOP conservatives are still convinced they were right<\/a>. This is basically the same demographic that adores Trump and believes that they are geniuses for making war on Pope Francis, whom they stupidly judge to be a Communist and (as a KKKlassy guest in my comboxes dubbed him) the \u201chomo pope\u201d.<\/p>\n

So wrong about so much so many times for so long you wonder that they have not exhausted the wrongness reserves available on planet earth.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"