Gotta admit, it takes some balls to mansplain Christianity to the Pope.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
239 points (98.0% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
34967 readers
4487 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Isn't the pope catholic?
Catholicism IS Christianity.
Wrong, only Gnostics are real Christians, demiurge stans don't count
Why do people say catholics aren't Christian? I've heard it a few times, it's baffling.
Blue checkmark detected, opinion ignored
I think all of Twitter is probably better to ignore?
Can confirm, been doing it since forever.
I didn't want to do this, but I've had enough; I'm calling the lads:
I bet he didn't see that coming.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Their chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Their two, two weapons...
Full submission and obedience > true freedom
Makes sense to me
True freedom is achieved when the others have submitted to you.
Golden dragon text, Jesus trump. 1-2
Psycho fucking evangelicals
Too bad the stats on the responder got cropped.
If the pope got ratio'd by some guy mansplaining the bible to him, Christianity would have another schism
I did not have the rise of Austinism and a catholic crusade against (what I assume is) the US in my bingo card for late 2025.
Oh no, now we have evangelic christianity flavor #4743907, the other billion sects are going to be so mad there's a new kid on the block
I love watching crazy people fight
I thought his comment on the heart was just some made up bs. Turns out no, it's not. It's an old testament verse, but still in the Bible. As an aside, why do the evangelicals love the old testament so much? Is it because it gives more of a right to be judgy?
Jeremiah 17:9 NIV - The heart is deceitful above all things - Bible Gateway
From a skeptical translation point of view, I want to know if the word heart means the same thing today as it did then.
From a skeptical translation point of view, I want to know if the word heart means the same thing today as it did then.
I'm sure that part is mostly accurate, but I think it's talking about other people's hearts, rather than one's own.
In context, it's trying to make a point about how one should trust god above men, because there's no way for one to know how another person truly feels (but in theory god can).
You'd have to ask a theologian for an actual answer.
The old testament is literally just there for context.
I had to learn that for myself because I wasn't taught it while a baptist. I learned that as an atheist! Its just Tue new testament that matters.
Holy fuck, thats even worse that I imagined. Most places I'd seen that just cropped to just the first line of the reply, delightfully skipping all of the "sin of empathy" heresy.
As depicted in the gospels, when Jesus was asked what the most important part of the law was our Lord And Savior literally said "love.".
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A30-31&version=NIV
I can't help but read the pope's text in the voice of Dagoth Ur.
Come, Nerevar, come and return to the Heart 🎵
oh oh oh ohhh
The online sewer aka twitter
I'm honestly not sure what Mr Pope was trying to say there.
"Acting with compassion will improve life for everybody."
Blows my mind that half of the USA think compassion is woke and to be avoided
It’s not like they changed, they were already like this. We need to shame people about this more
This is by design; it's difficult to demonize "the others" if you have even a drop of compassion.
Your version is definitely more succinct.
its pretty bad grammatically. maybe he had one too many Jesus wines.
he's american
That you have to have a heart. You have to believe in things, and see right from wrong
We're losing that as a species. Laws aren't a replacement for morality, but they're treated like it
There's no set of laws that could save us from global warming or bring the local community together. But these are very necessary things
Excommunicate this bitch
The sub is clearly a protestants, so the Pope has no power to excommunicate
Oh, I thought the joke was that the guy was catholic and openly disagreeing with the pope
So if you are a true Catholic you have to take the word of the Pope as the word of God. Catholics who disagree with the pope are hypocrites.
It's like a daisy chain in the back of the short bus.
Yeah Pope said funny stuff like "locus of free freedom", whatever that is. But most "a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal and communal style of life... like ome on
damn
In what manner did he reject it?
“Return to the heart” is just code for giving the alter boys prostate exams eh