Americans are going to have to be exceedingly careful that they don't end up with not only a hot civil war (a terrible idea) but a hot religious partisan war of Catholic Vs Protestant (an even worse idea.)
You know what I am talking about.
Forget the headlines and watch the command structure...
Top U.S. military leadership is being reshaped in real time:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs—gone.
Army Chief was forced out mid-conflict.
More than a dozen generals removed without warning or exited before retirement.
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The Mexican border invasion was in a very real sense a Catholic cultural invasion. I am not an American and so I have limited insight, but personally I don't find a wave of poor Catholic and culturally Catholic immigrants terribly upsetting or disturbing, and I don't even like the Christ cult in general at all.
Moreover--despite the cult's history in Europe--I don't remember them being involved in the Salem witch trials, and being a Papist Irish immigrant in New York in the 1800s was pretty rough, if I remember my meagre US history correctly.
I've said it before: Mexican people making me burritos (or indeed becoming woman scientists or politicians) is not a very threatening or scary proposition. But then: I don't think demons are out to get me, nor that such beasties are even real, because I am not mentally unbalanced.
A great, unrestrained wave of poor Catholic immigrants is admittedly somewhat concerning given the ludicrous nature of Catholic doctrines and their inherent anti-unbelief-ism, but Catholics are not lining up to defenestrate me for being an atheist last time I checked. (Mind you: that's a LOW bar.)
I'm far more worried about evangelical cults who tell me the actual demons have got me because I'm not obeisant to their imaginary, all-powerful (big surprise!), personal imaginary friend. Or that US troops are fighting an apocalyptic war in Iran for some long dead cult leader called Jesus.
Those people are clearly completely out of their gourds.
An effortless AI query on Google tells me Mark Milley was raised Catholic, and although I've little clue what his current convictions are: I know 1. Trump doesn't like him one bit and 2. Milley sounds a hell of a lot more "American Liberty" than Trump, given the former's speech about not serving Kings, Tyrants, or religion.
Yes: No serving religion(s) was in there. That's curiously secular, perhaps?
Sorting and guessing people's dispositional attitudes is one thing, but cultural memory, group psychology, and cultural narratives are another (connected) thing.
The fact is that many (not all) evangelical Protestant cultists get super paranoid and upset about 'Papism'. It's the Devil's work, they tell their goobermenschen sheep from the pulpit.
Most of them also believe demons are real, which is plainly delusional and paranoid.
Moreover, Evanglicals of different stripes call charismatics the devil, and Catholics of different stripes call evangelicals the devil, and they all call Mormons the devil (whereas in reality the angel Moroni is just sad and hilarious), and Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Methodists spend a good deal of their time slagging-off each others demonically influenced theologies.
There's not a lot else to spend one's time on if one has a Master of Divinity. One just has to stir the pot of bullshit in multiple directions, tossing in the occasional sprig of seasoning. (While wearing a ridiculous hat. Unless ridiculous hats are the devil's work this Sunday.)
Cult schism, anyone? The more the merrier!
Oddly enough - even with my disdain for multi-cultism and what I am fairly certain is essentially suicidal freedom of religion - I can't help thinking that Voltaire's multi-religionist social engineering scheme (coded into the American collective conscious mind via his friend Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's colleagues) is still going to keep the madness at bay.
Of course the problem is that it also feeds the madness and lets it loose.
Perpetual balancing acts are the constant, as usual.
Atheist communist states don't have a great record of kindness to say the least, but they're an aberration. Secular, atheist/agnostic, scientistic, progressive narratives and ideology - on the other hand - are what has gotten the USA through most of its hells. Especially the science and tech which arises in that environment. That's made a lot of difference.
I hope Catholics and social democrats in the US military can bear the affront flung at them with grace. I hope the evangelical cultists with a heart can help them, even though it's unlikely to be accidental that the Mexican border was flung open.
Otherwise there will be blood, and the blood of one lesbian, liberal, feminist activist with small children is too much already. If dominionist, megacult doctrines and narratives get control of the "social cohesiveness", it's going to be a lot of blood, and it won't stop until the nuts with the imaginary friend and with paranoia about demons are all gone.
Mostly: I hope that the smartest of secular Americans figure it out and solve it, and soon. $39,016,191,534,959.54 (US Treasury April 1) is a lot of pressure and a major stressor. A lot of people might call that too late and beyond saving.
