Ah well good thing I don’t particularly give a shit what some guy in an (admittedly) awesome party hat thinks about me, as a vagina owner.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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The problem is that a lot of other people do give a shit.
There are almost 1.4 billion Catholics in the world. If the Pope told Catholics to rise up and slaughter the non-believers and even 1% of the Catholics agreed to do it, the bloodbath would be horrendous.
Like it or not, the Pope has power. He shouldn't, but he does. And that's why it's important to keep tabs on the awful things he says.
That’s a fair assessment. However, I personally, am at my limit of awful things I’m able to carry around with me currently. Best I can muster is a “fuck this silly hat wearing asshole” at present.
I guess, at least catholic christianity has the benefit of self-reform, given that they elect a 'leader'. In theory at least, this should allow them to go with the times, even if currently, they are lagging behind multiple centuries oc progress.
The hat is ok, but I don't like his dress. At least the Catholic Church openly embraces crossdressing I guess.
(Organized) Religion can't fade away fast enough, and I'm not even directly affected by this as a penis wielder.
How long until this person is no longer relevant to the world or its people?
It'll take few more popes I reckon.
Perhaps there is some way we could cycle through them faster?
A religious man I once knew reckoned the world would end if we ever had a black pope. Consequently, I kind of want to see that happen before they quit. (He wasn't talking about the position sometimes known as "black pope" either. He definitely meant a man of recent African descent.)
I like to think the idea of Desmond Tutu gave him the creeps.
Desmond Tutu was an Anglican, not a Catholic.
He also said something very pithy, but quite odd for an Anglican Archbishop to say-
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray. ' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
I know Tutu was Anglican. It's just that he fairly frequently appeared in the news here (Britain) and given where Tutu was, his rank, and what he stood for, I imagine that might have been enough to unnerve the person I was talking about.
There's also that Tutu was often used humour and was joyful, and the idea of that being scary to people who might think poorly of him is kind of funny to me.
Not soon enough sadly