This made me laugh incredibly hard, so had to post it.
Huh, pretty on brand with Republican Christian values to be celebrating a person’s death.
Not any person, the literal representative of Jesus Christ on Earth.
She’s consistently tactless. At least she has that going for her.
He finally defeated this evil man… after he rose to being the fucking pope, led the church for 12 years, and died at a ripe 88 years old…
Idk, I feel like God didn’t do much at all. But if he’s striking down evil, I’d get to painting your door in sheep’s blood real quick, Marge.
I suppose any pope who gives a crap about the actual people is considered a bad pope by republicans.
God’s intervention can be observed when an 88 year old dies of natural causes.
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong–faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.
In 1933, Hitler signed the Reichskonkordat (Reich Concordat), a treaty with the Vatican that required the regime to honour the independence of Catholic institutions and prohibited clergy from involvement in politics.[158] However, the regime continued to target the Christian churches to weaken their influence. Throughout 1935 and 1936, hundreds of clergy and nuns were arrested, often on trumped up charges of currency smuggling or sexual offences
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
LOL “trumped up charges.”
The Catholic Church has been a political institution for almost its entire existence. It is probably the *oldest * political institution in Europe, having existed since AD 30 according to its own history (though as you get further back in time, history starts turning into legend and mythology; it’s really not clear where that line is).
During the Middle Ages, you could very well be burnt at the stake for heresy or be sent to die in the Crusades, upon the orders of the pope. And for over a millennium, the Church directly ruled over a pretty sizeable piece of territory in central Italy.
Stupid Russian cunt.
Let’s see if you could make it till 88, Marge.
She will, love for ‘God’ and hate for everything else seems to be powerful fuel.
Fuck this insanity. All these hollows need to be removed from society before they destroy it.
Are there still Protestants who are assmad about the “papist” Catholics? Feels like a complete anachronism like hearing slurs against the Irish and Italians.
Oh, absolutely, I know Protestants who don’t consider Catholics to be Christians at all. And a large part of the current religious conservatism in America is based on these Protestant Evangelicals.
Catholics who are rooting on the Christofascists just because they are currently anti-abortion don’t realize that it won’t be too long before Catholics are targeted. The Christofascists never liked them anyway, they just liked their votes. Once they no longer need to rely on votes to stay in power, they don’t need the Catholics anymore.
Yeah, American Protestants have hated Catholics for generations, and it’s only made worse by the fact that Catholics tend, in general, to be more left-leaning than Protestants so they’re now on opposite sides of the political aisle too. The fireworks when they finally start going at each other full-tilt for a change (instead of going at everyone around them) are going to be sweet indeed.
American Catholicism right now is a mixed bag. On certain social issues, they are quite Conservative. We know their stance on Abortion, and even though Pope Francis said some encouraging things about same-sex relationships, nothing substantial has changed.
Where Catholics worldwide are much more liberal is in their relationship with migrants and other marginalized people. Where this administration sees “shithole countries”, the Church sees places where they can go and actively work to improve the lives of people there. They see their future strength in administering to the spiritual needs of the poor in those countries, and will always aim to help migrants. And in fact, this Pope spent a lot of his final days on earth reminding American bishops (and JD Vance) to show mercy to migrants and treat them with basic human dignity.
Careful, the Catholics are by no means a homogenous group either. There’s the whole “Trad Cath” thing going on.
Small mention in Folding Ideas’ Geocentrists video
In my experience, Catholics tend to be pretty moderate, since the Catholic Church is strictly hierarchical and all dogma originates from the Vatican. The size of the Church, it seems, has a moderating effect on its dogma since they have to appeal to such a large group of followers, and the views of its members tend to average out with a bias towards conservatism (because the Church is so unbelievably old that the inertia of 15th or 10th century doctrine still holds sway).
Protestants, meanwhile, span the whole political spectrum since the label is pretty broad in general. There are plenty of Protestant churches in my area that espouse very liberal and accepting social views, and probably at least a dozen will even marry same-sex couples, something notoriously disapproved of by the Catholic Church and many other denominations. But there are also many, much louder, Protestant churches that are basically full MAGA.
And soon you may ban books and newspapers, and turn Catholics against Protestants, and Protestants against Protestants, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other, because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.
Inherit the Wind, 1960
I’ve met Mormons who don’t consider Catholics to be Christian, which is pretty fucking hilarious.
ETA: Speaking of Catholics who try to cozy up to the right-wing evangelical Protestant movement because they have common causes but don’t realize they are being used… The Mormons are even further up the enemies list of the right-wing Protestants than the Catholics. And they too don’t seem to be aware of this. Basically if the likes of MTG get their wish to crush gays, trans, feminists, atheists, and liberals under their boot heels, they will turn on themselves. Starting with the non-Christian religions, then the JWs, then the Mormons, then the Catholics. They will go with the lowest hanging fruit.
the book of mormon says black skin is the mark of sin for “rebellion and iniquity.” And mormons only came to a more moderate understanding of that historically very recently.
So you’ll forgive me if I dont care about what mormon clowns say about much of anything.I’ve met Baptists and Methodists and other main-line Protestant denominations who don’t, so it’s by no means isolated to the fringe.
I was raised in a Baptist Church and my pastor used to spend a significant amount of time shit talking Catholics.
catholics dont think about baptists at all.
It never went away, most Evangelicals are open about it.
The veneration of the Virgin Mary and saints is considered pagan worship negating the whole of Catholicism.
They will evangelicals speak about them in the same breath as Islam , with no exceptions they are going straight to hell.
Makes sense, since Islam also venerates the Virgin Mary. There are long passages in the Qur’an praising her.
Holy fuck.
I’m someone who thinks THE BIBLE should be the Law Of The Land and I’m ALSO Celebrating the LEADER OF THE BIBLES DEATH!
Cromagnon Taylor Green at it again
Cro-Magnon are modern humans.
Empty Greene is more Piltdown.
