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Just imagining the ruckus that will break out when he calls that “pizza” in Rome 🤣

Why do US neonazis hate Catholics tho? There is also this line in American History X, where Danny says: "I hate anyone that isn't white Protestant." I've always wondered.

I think she had several servings already.

While that certainly doesn't speak well for him, wouldn't it be more of a surprise at this point if they chose a pope that couldn't be described that way? This is the catholic church we're talking about.

Edit: Because I’m genuinely loving the downvotes

First off, you had 5 down votes, which makes it obvious you're trolling.

But for those five it's likely:

It's because you're trying to use semantics to "dunk" on an entire country, and it's not even original, and still not even right.

It would be correct to phrase it:

The first pope from the United States of America

But pretty much every country has a long name that's shortened down to one identifiable word.

Its very hard to believe anyone would hear:

The first American pope

And genuinely believe that includes anyone born anywhere on the continents of North or South America.

99.99% of the time, it's someone trying to troll Americans, it's not as clever as you think. And immediately complaining about a handful of downvotes makes it incredibly transparent.

I mean… I don’t disagree, but no other nation put “America” in their name. “United” and “States” are even more generic. Heck, "United States" isn’t even distinctive.

• “Uni” is already “university”,
• “Statist” is already something else
• Statian / station
• Stater / stator
• Unitian / munition
• “Unitarian” is already something
• Unit 👎
• Unish 👎
• Ustan / Houston
• UnStan, UnStian, UniStan, UniStAm👎
• “Yank(ee)” is almost exclusively derogatory, and a fair chunk of the nation uses it to denigrate a different chunk.
• “Yu-ess-ee-an” is just unbelievably awful
• “Usonian” didn’t take off, but we could give it another go 🤷‍♂️

And he's the first US-ian Pope because of his birth.

But his career was in Peru.

I fully get the criticism, but US Americans are the only ones that identify, and are broadly known as "Americans," so it just feels pedantic to me.

Yeah, he's the first Pope from the States, is closer to the phrase that should be used.

As with the "abolition of private property" people quotes what's convenient. The whole quote goes:

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

To be fair a lot of the quotes attributed to Marx were just common phrases he rephrased, or a giant wall of text reduced by someone else to a memorable quote stripped of all context:

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people#Full_quotation_and_history

And it came from an unpublished response to someone else's work. After he was dead his follower pared all of that down to:

Religion is the opium of the masses

And let everyone who heard it, believe it meant whatever they think it means.

Always be wary of authoritarians that are given credit for "speaking plainly" but aren't actually saying anything. Being vague and letting the person interpret it however they want us basic grifting. All that matters is you're gaining their confidence.

He didn't say that as a bad thing.

The Communist Manifesto spends time talking about how compatible early Christian teachings are with Marx's goals.

He is at least culpable of inaction, IIRC

He's the pope, so not long.

He models Jesus in thought and action.

Let's see him in action, first.