>>17480
I've not been around long but I consider myself Christian.
>>17479
Catholicism is not the best religion for libertarianism/anarchism. Catholics tend towards Empires, and they literally believe that human beings can act with the authority of God, placing them in a position above their fellow man.
Protestant doctrine is much more individualistic and I often think that during the Thirty Years War when the Holy Roman Emperor declared war on Saxony, a state which simply wanted to practice its autonomous right to practice its own religion, there are forgotten parallels with the American Civil War regarding states' rights.
Orthodoxy is also fine with individualism, but Catholics began their reign in Europe after the fall of Rome by instituting laws and gathering up Europe's wealth to the Church and it was only with the Reformation that nations were able to be truly competitive with their laws. France's persecution of their Huguenot population (from which I am descended) led to a mass exodus to England, Brandenburg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. It is thought that as many Huguenots were middle and upper class this caused a brain drain which assisted in France's defeat by England and Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of Lutheranism in northern Germany led to the hundreds of microstates there being able to finally compete with laws providing freedom as they were at last free from the grip of Rome. The wealth of the average German increased significantly in the decades following the Peace of Westphalia, despite the fact that half of German males died in the conflict.
As for the current Pope, he's a Latin American socialist who panders to minorities and gays. He's little different to Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, except that thankfully his power was greatly diminished by the brave Protestant and Reformed Soldiers of the Thirty Years War.