• AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Never thought I’d see the day when blindly pro-Christ America threatens the Holy See with the murder of the pope and the creation of a heretical antipope. Was definitely not on my “Crazies of 2026” bingo card.

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      10 hours ago

      Watch as Trump goes full Henry VIII and starts his own church purely to make raping pre-teens a religious practice and for the tax exemption.

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      You know the KKK went after Catholics almost as hard as Black people…

      Right?

      That the whole “a Catholic president will just listen to the pope” was just an excuse to not elect a Catholic?

      That Joe Biden’s memories of the good old days when Republicans wouldn’t stop telling him he was “one of the good ones” they were talking about him being Catholic yet siding with evangelicals?

      Like, this ain’t new, it’s so old this is how they were brought up, and it goes both ways.

      My Catholic grandmother didn’t talk to my mom, ever, because my mom was a different flavor of Christian than Catholic. MAGA boomers grew up during that schism, they 100% never saw themselves on the same side. They think of Catholicism like younger generations think of Mormonism.

      What’s going to fuck trump up with Abrahmic religions of all flavors, is the AI pic of him as Jesus.

      Was definitely not on my “Crazies of 2026” bingo card.

      You’re gonna be really shocked when Muslim leaders start talking about how Jesus is coming back to save everyone then…

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      I was initially surprised by this too. But the more I think about it, the more expected it is.

      Trump’s hardcore base is mostly comprised of evangelical protestants. And they fucking hate the pope in every form (more conservative and more liberal ones alike), and Catholics in general.

      His comments will energize their support, which has been slipping a bit due to the Epstein files. And as someone else said he, the hardcore base of ultra-conservative Catholics who also support Trump won’t care about his latest comments, because they hate Leo too.

      This really is just playing to his base. Not in a 4D chess way, but more in the form of his latest tantrum unwittingly hitting a strategic sweet spot.

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      Like… I am not going to say I am NOT surprised.

      But it really does make sense if you look at history as a whole. Catholicism has largely always been characterized by a religious third party meddling in politics, economics, and the legal system. When they have a critical mass of Believers, they are a force to be feared. When they don’t? They are a nagging voice that world leaders are expected to kiss the ring of.

      In this case? Somehow the catholic church is NOT the most evil voice in the room which… is a whole level of fucked.

      But England broke with the pope centuries ago. And people forget that the US was “founded” by protestants. Or that the country is basically controlled by evangelical christofacists (another flavor of protestants). Like… it is STILL a big deal that JFK was openly catholic.

      So… in a lot of ways? This is one fallen empire that pissed away its soft power getting mocked by the figurehead of a falling empire that pissed away its soft power.

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    You would think Catholics would be absolutely outraged by this but the pope, who before was totally taboo to ever criticize, has been getting lots of criticism from Catholics for a long time now, ever since pope Francis was elected and but especially now with pope Leo. Ironically the absolutely fiercest critics of the pope are the so called “tradcaths” or ultra conservative catholic zoomers. If you look at their social media bubble it’s shit thrown at whatever the pope is saying every single week.

    I don’t think US conservative Catholics care at all what Trump is saying about the pope. They hate the pope themselves. Maybe they will even cheer on.

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    Geez, the Pope isnt doing anything to actually hinder his shit plans in Iran. putin is, where is his public outrage?

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    All these anti-pope christians realize that Judaism is close to OG recipe for at least until 70 ad, then Catholics (mostly), then all other flavors? Coptic is in the mix too, but I don’t know the dates.

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    Is this dumbass on the R word list? Nobody screws with Chytown it is basically the new york of the midwest. Hell they shoot people over stupid ass shit. Given them something to all hate and you thought Fallugha was bad. I feel sorry for the Pope I am not even catholic that he actually had to come out and make a statement.