• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    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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      8 hours ago

      My sincere hope is that the Catholic Church looks at how they were perceived under Benedict—a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance; and how they were perceived under Francis—an actually compassionate and humble servant of the Church and its people. And based on that, they choose another Pope who’s in the same vein as Francis to continue bringing the Church into this century. There is still decades of work to be done, but we absolutely can’t go backwards right now.

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        a staunchly conservative Pope that led to massive losses in respect, attendance, and relevance

        Pretty sure this is because of JP2 playing whack-a-mole with pedophiles up and down his entire chain of command - shuffling them around and fucking lying about it for decades - then handing the grenade to Benedict. Remember: The Boston Globe blew it open in 2002, JP2 died in 2005.

        Can’t believe he was fast track canonized. Ridiculous.

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        Frances said some good stuff but did he do anything meaningful to bring the church into this century

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      10 hours 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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      I think with the current zeitgeist we’re in for a Battle Pope this time.

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        7 hours ago

        Battle Pope! With flying “Rocket Papal Punch” action! Only $12.25 at your nearest Vatican.

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      10 hours ago

      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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        They’re the ones that invented hell in the first place. That’s being the gatekeeper of your own imaginative fuck-you land, you can do whatever you want since it doesn’t even exist in the first place.

        Oh hey if you beat your children and don’t support people that support trans people you’re going to urusjsttisstiidtiyd after you die and it sucks and people punch you in the face and it smells like shit and jd vance sticks his fingers in your mouth randomly and it’s all the worst stuff you can imagine and it curses your family forever and if you do support trans people with everything and don’t worry i can read your thoughts i mean the super powerful all powerful everywhere all the time in everything force person called odyysiid5tditkxhck can read your thoughts and knows if you’re being bad or even considering it or thinking about anything bad.

        ^ religion, my new one that you should follow, also you go to the good place where all your dreams come true and you can be with all your loved ones forever and there’s all the things you want trust me bro you want this and not the bad forever ending. It’s called RaulingSucksDurt-ism and it’s real and all the other religions aren’t real and they’re all actually going to urusjsttisstiidtiyd for not even believing. The best thing you can do actually is to show them the light and save them from urusjsttisstiidtiyd because that’s bad and you want to be good right? The other religions just lie to you and it’s actually the leader of urusjsttisstiidtiyd whispering in their ear and they’re all victims bro, help them bro before it’s too late, they’re all bad bro help them with your love