Welcome back to Chamis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And it's not every day that as an

apologist for Catholic Answers, I find our work called out in a piece shared by a sitting

U.S. Senator, but this week I had that unique experience. So Senator Ted Cruz shared a piece

by a Twitter user called Insurrection Barbie. And it's an article. It's over 8,000 words long,

called The Long Game and the Conservative Right. But Cruz gave a very strong endorsement of this

article. He said, read every word of this. It's the best and most comprehensive explanation

of what we're fighting. Now, I'm not 100% sure this was written by a human.

It reads like AI slop. It's filled with basic errors. But I think it's striking that he shares

this piece, which calls out Catholic Answers twice by name and gets, as I said, just basic

details wrong, completely misunderstands the theological and political

things that are afoot. And it ought to be worth addressing just a handful of the points made.

So first, I mean, one of the first clues that maybe this wasn't written by a human being is that

there's a section attacking this Catholic position called Integralism.

We used an AI voice to read the article to illustrate how ridiculous the article is.

The voice was chosen completely at random, of course.

The first is Integralism, a pre-Vatican II political theology that holds the Catholic Church

should exercise direct authority over temporal governments, that religious liberty

is a Protestant error, and that a properly ordered state must subordinate itself to church

teaching. This is not the position of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is not

the position of Pope Francis. Now, that's kind of striking because as any human being knows,

Pope Francis is not the Pope, but a lot of AI models have

not updated that. So that's the first red flag that maybe we're not actually dealing with

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