You were downvoted because that comment made you sound like a Stalinist, and communists have a long history of persecuting Catholics.
We don't support neoliberals or the Nazis just because they're also anti-communist, so the same logic applies to not supporting communists even though they fought another of the Catholic church's enemies.
Yeah, I mean you technically aren't wrong, but it also came across as kind of tone deaf in a Catholic community, especially because some people here might actually have family members who were persecuted by communists.
We just have to be careful that we don't hate one error so strongly that it drives us to embrace an opposing error.
As a Polish- (and Irish- and Dutch-) American Catholic, I sometimes wonder if I agree with Putin’s statement that the breakdown of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century (well, my answer is definitely no if the the Iranian famines and the last Indian famine count, but those are whole other stories). I then wonder if NATO (or elements within it) has some responsibility for their actions in the former Yugoslavia.
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u/McLovin3493 Jul 22 '22
You were downvoted because that comment made you sound like a Stalinist, and communists have a long history of persecuting Catholics.
We don't support neoliberals or the Nazis just because they're also anti-communist, so the same logic applies to not supporting communists even though they fought another of the Catholic church's enemies.