After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don’t even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.

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    You seem to follow him very closely, for someone you don’t like.

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      Know your enemy?

      I know a lot about Musk, Trump, Thiel, Sacks, RFK, etc.

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        “your enemy” bro, who hurt you? Like what are you even taking about. It’s the Pope bro.

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      As a militant anti-theist I have informed myself about the most influential theist on earth. He was heading the most influential, superstitious, conservative, dogmatic organisation in the world and his views and speeches still shape policy in my country and the union of countries it exists in. Where I have to suffer under or combat every policy idea the people influenced by him impose on me, as I hold views diametrically opposed to his. Keeping myself and those around me informed about the hollowness of the public image of these enemies of modernity is one of the few ways to fight back against theist feel-good propaganda.

      How you think I could have done otherwise is beyond me.

      It seems to me like saying people should ignore bad actors instead of actively opposing them.

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        “militant anti theist” I think the world you’re looking for si “fanatic atheists” bro lmao, I’m sure that’s what your call ‘militant theists’.