...is that the Roman Catholic Church has been putting it's finger into the pies of governments for a long, long time and they are really good at it. Breaking down the wall will principally benefit the RCC; the Evangelicals will get left in the dust.

Its influence on political realities has faded greatly. Personally, I think the RCC is doomed by it's own ponderous patriarchal hierarchy and its general and egregious corruption. That does not mean, however, that those who are currently working toward a dominionist goal are not succeeding. The religious right has steadily put people into powerful government positions.

In the Trump administration, that progress has been accelerated. While Donald Trump, in his childish way, may not realize it, others are taking advantage of his massive ignorance and probably dementia to install dominionists wherever possible.

I wish this were discussed more and pointed out more.

The RCC depends on the Evangelicals because they don't have that kind of clout anymore. What the Catholics don't seem to realize is once the secularists are out of the way, the Evangelicals will turn on them the first chance they get.

The Religious Right has long opposed the Roman Catholic Church. It aligns it self with them right now over the LGBTQ, abortion, and contraception issues. However, much of conservative protestantism considers the Roman Catholic Church to be the virtual Antichrist, really.

There has been enmity toward the RCC from Baptists and Pentecostalists from the get-go. They would turn on the RCC the moment they got their way on the issues they have in common.

They called them "catlickers".

When my mother was a kid, grampa wouldn't let her wear orange. I mean, shit. How Irish can you get?

was toned down when the Christian Right launched its anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ campaigns. Since the Catholic Church agreed with them on those issues, fundamentalists stopped attacking Roman Catholicism openly to focus on their ugly common goals. Since then, the Christian Right has also adopted the RCC's objections to contraception, too.

However, the deep-seated distrust of everything Catholic has not gone away among conservative Protestants. It is just not being expressed right now, in the name of common cause.

That distrust is still there, however, and will re-emerge, the minute those goals are met or when it becomes clear that they will never be met. The Christian Right's current support for Judaism and Israel is equally temporary, and for similar reasons. Rabid hatred for Islam among the Christian Right has led it to make common cause with Israel on Middle East issues. But, the antisemitism is still there, simmering under the surface.

Fundamentalists are also pragmatists when it comes to their goals. They will align with anyone on a particular issue, but retain their disdain and hatred despite their apparent agreement on a particular issue.

When the grand Mufti of Libya requested that George Washington visit him, Washington did not refuse. He was asked by the Mufti if, "America is a Christian country?"

Washington replied, "... the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. ..".

See here

The fundagelicals or dominionists, whichever you prefer, have been trying this bullshit for over 220 years. They won't stop until laws are passed prohibiting proselytizing, and then they'll spend all their time and money trying to overturn the anti-proselytizing law(s).

Nobody can say exactly where it came from, because it's lacking, apparently, in the Arabic fair copy.

Mineral Man pointed out. It is a Church that refuses to change and function in the 21st century.

I did not leave the Church, the Church LEFT me.

over the child sexual abuse scandal. That number is likely to grow, given new revelations that are appearing all too frequently.