• Bonus @lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    He knows his phony baloney base is supposedly Christian, right?

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      There’s historically bad blood between Catholics and Protestants in America. All the recent Pope stuff is designed to fan those flames.

      Non Catholics lump the two together but Protestant America is taught young that Catholics are in the same group as Jews, Muslims, and everyone else they hate.

      So this is all dog whistling.

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        Something something God uses imperfect people, I guess.

        Edit: I mean that’s something I’ve heard of MAGAts saying. Apparently they don’t care because somehow they’re convinced Trump is chosen by capital-G-God an will do God’s will even if he’s sinful as fuck.

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      This is what they’ll tell you with a straight face.

      Noah was a drunk, King David killed a man so he could have the widow, and King Solomon had thousands of slaves.

      The Lord can choose to work through flawed me; we must look past their character to see the holy spirit within.

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        2 days ago

        Exactly why, as a small child, I couldn’t understand anyone following this bullshit. They contradict themselves and then expect you to believe.

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    3 days ago

    JD meets with Pope ▶️ Pope dies ▶️ Trump becomes Pope ▶️ JD meets with Trump ▶️ …

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      The Vatican supported the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 30s

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          It was much too late by then. The Italian fascist movement was on the back foot and had been co-opted by Hitler and the Nazi party.

          The Vatican supported the rise of Fascism in the 20’s and 30s. By 1937, fascism had already risen and everyone was about to start doing world war things in a couple years as a result.

          This is the MO for the church/Vatican, they are never on the side of good out of the gate, but retcon things later to make it appear like they were secretly the good guys somehow.

          History of the church and their decisions is long and bloody. This hasn’t ever changed.

          But the church still tries to gaslight everyone that they’ve been the good guys all along.

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            You seem to paper over the fact that the Church coming out against Hitler put the lives of many clergy at risk and invited a hateful wrath. The Church did not oppose Nazism because they had some insight that years later the Nazis would lose. They did it because it was the right thing to do.

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              That’s some great retconning from the church if that’s their actual stance. :)

              “We didn’t oppose the fascists when the moment came because we heard they were going to lose, but trust us, we were really on the side of good all along.”

              To be fair, this is exactly what the Catholic church does and is good at, convincing people that they were on the side of good all along and white washing their history to remain relevant.

              It’s staggeringly effective at every level. They’ve been doing it for almost 2000 years. I don’t know of any other religion or cult that has managed to stay relevant for that long outside of the Catholic church, so they’re doing something right, even if what they’re doing “right” is actually quite wrong.

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    Has anyone asked Trump about it?

    “I didn’t know I could be pope? This is the first time I’m hearing it. I think it’ll get in the way of…well I could be, maybe I will do it. The pope and president at the same time? Wouldn’t that be beautiful? Everyone’s saying it.”

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      they did ask him and he said “being pope would be my first choice”, you’ll note how you were unable to even come up with something as nonsensical as what he actually said

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    don’t protestant leaders find this disgusting in a different way?

    sorry i forgot, nothing means anything anymore.