• harmsy@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Guys. Joe Biden is Catholic. The Vatican has an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

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    Gfdi. I’m not religious, but knowing that Catholics are going to choose a new Pope, I can only look forward to more bad news of comformity to godawful world news in the form of a shitty New Pope who inspires and empowers all the shitty people.

    Great, one more thing to make the world even worse.

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      42 minutes ago

      There’s some hope… part of Francis’ papacy involved him promoting more open-minded cardinals (who are the ones who choose popes) but we’ll see

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      Im waiting for all the articles whe we he said something nice about gay people, so hes super progressive and we should be nice to the church cause they like us

      Only to go to the comments where someone points out the next sentence he said was we are still going to hell

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    Looks like it’s time for another pope race. I would like to throw my hat in the ring. As a lapsed Catholic trans woman who’s never so much as visited a seminary, I know I’m an unorthodox choice. But maybe it’s time to mix things up. My central campaign planks? We’re going to bring back indulgences and try to make the Papal States a thing again. Also, expect skits and improv sessions to have a big place in Catholic mass in the future!

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    Good. I’m an indigenous person who has plenty of relatives who suffered under church run schools. This pope was nothing but a PR figurehead, down vote me all you want but my native brown ass is finished worshiping your popes and colonial religion.

    I will take down votes with pride, it’s not new for me to get shit on for refusing to bow to this colonial, religious idiocy

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      I’m surprised there’s not a bigger anti-Christian movement among the various colonized cultures, to be honest.

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        A lot of them adopted Christianity and made their own version. Few are Catholic, mostly just Latin America it seems.

        Christianity adopted and adapted a lot of local religions and traditions when it spread outside the Roman Empire, so really it’s only fair that people adapt Christianity to their own cultures.

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      Thank you for sharing this I’m as atheist as can be and I don’t really have a good view of the Catholic Church (or most churches) in general for obvious reasons but this pope was indeed better than the ones before him and that was a good moment from him

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    Okay, we need to know where every US government official was.

    Right after the Pope told trump to have some compassion, a very coincidental timing…

    🤔

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    “That was because he refused to welcome god-king JD vance in person!!! God punished the pope for his impertinence!!!”

    - Some MAGA-Nut somewhere, probably

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    Trump only likes popes that don’t die at a similar age. In fact, had the pope become president and leading racist nazi asshole, he would be alive today.

    My theory is that pope Francis when to see where the heck god is at. Cuz WTF man!

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    Friendly reminder: Progressive for a pope is still a transphobe who actively facilitated the rape of children. Not to mention all the horrific colonizer shit.

    Rest in piss Frankie boy.

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      It’s like, he was pretty woke for a Pope, but, he was still a Pope.

      I don’t think things would have worked out well had he gone full prog anyway. There’d be schisms for sure. Hell, Trump would probably declare an American Catholic Church and have himself elected Pope of it. (Shit, I really shouldn’t have given him that idea)

      I don’t really know which way he personally felt. But even a Jesuit at the end of the day is a Catholic.

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        You’ll understand if I honestly don’t care if a fundamentally hateful and harmful org broke up.

        If “maybe we should stop supporting transphobia and rape and…” will kill an org… that org probably shouldn’t exist at all.

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      I hate that you’re right. Like, seeing how kind and compassionate the man was outwardly in the day to day and knowing of the horrors he and the church participated in and tried to hide… It makes me all the more sour to organized religion.

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      100%

      After the way he let Robert Finn skate when he ran cover for a priest raping kids, Francis belongs in Hell. It’s a bummer that Hell isn’t a real place.