American Christians: "Oh my god! The pope is a commie socialist woke antifa!"
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Among evangelical hardliners it's not an uncommon belief that the Pope is the Anti Christ, so...
Can enough irony actually cause a quantum singularity?
We could only be so lucky
I mean, every single time they have assumed the Pope is the Antichrist in the last 50 years they've been wrong, so surely this time.
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what a coincidence as peter thiel is coming to europe tour to give talks on the ANTI-CHRIST.
while evangelical ignoring someone like THIEL who is obsessed with the anti-christ.
Yes, only their guy who pretend to talk to/for God is the guy I listen to unconditionally. Certainly not the head church guy, obviously he's a hack.
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For many christians, "christianity" is a social club they strongly belong to, not an actual religion. They don't give a fuck about what the bible is actually trying to convey, they just use the bible as a tackboard to pin their own beliefs and desires onto.
You described almost every religion ever.
Religion is a mental disorder. Prove me wrong. (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
Religion is just ceremony and doctrine surrounding belief.
A bit like having cake and a party, because you believe the earth completing a lap of the sun dated from the day of your birth is worth celebrating. Or having someone arrested and taken to court and sent to prison for stealing from you, because you and many others in society believe in concepts like personal property, and justice, and morality. You know, all those things you believe in that definitely exist, even though you've never seen a photo of morality, or seen a scientific study proving that justice exists. But they must do because old books say so, and so do your peers, and anyway our whole society would fall apart if people stopped believing in them.
Humans, simply put, are weird. We're a species composed of mental disorders unique to us and nothing else in nature. To single out religion as being especially weird and worthy of contempt is... well... a bit weird and worthy of contempt, IMO
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"You should be nice to people"
How does this need proof? Something like Buddhism isn't saying "this is how the world is" more like "these attitudes might be helpful to you" - there is nothing there to prove.
Of course if you think that a gigantic sky daddy wants you to invade a country because the man on TV said so, then perhaps you should reassess some things.
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I suspect you think you're being satirical but as an American myself, I can guarantee there's a significant amount of Americana saying exactly this.
Many christians: "Oh my god! This Jesus was a commie socialist woke antifa!"
Sorry Pope, there’s no money in that. Signed - insurance companies and Donald j Trump (because he likes his name in everything)
Except the Epstein files...
Something tells me he’s not embarrassed about that. He just hates it’s not his narrative.
That's rather pointed as there is only one first world country that does not have universal healthcare.
Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it's not really universal.
From experience in Australia: dental isn't included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it's not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for "elective" surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.
What's worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then... (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it's a fucking stupid system)
List goes on.
It's WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.
We do. There are like 3 countries that don't... Oh yeah, makes sense.
MAGA: He is neither a true American nor a true christian.
Down with the red sox! Down with the cubs! Down with the pope!!
/s
One of the most Christian things I've heard from a pope in quite a long time
As an American, he would be familiar with the consequences of not having it.
No can do. Gotta bomb brown people to protect pedophiles.
USA will ask how the shareholders will cope.
huh, so that's Thiel's antichrist I guess
Trump will invade Vatican City.
This is not the kind of Popeing he paid for.
I wonder how many countries’ healthcare the Vatican hoard could fund in perpetuity. The number is greater than one.
I was actually surprised to find out LDS (mormons) are several times wealthier than the Catholic Church on paper.
Their total revenue is around $30 billion a year. They could, in theory, pay for an entire states medical costs like Utah that spends about $18 billion a year.
Specially pointed to your comment though, the Catholic Church is already the biggest private healthcare provider in the world. It operates roughly twenty percent of healthcare facilities in the world.
Those are great points. What payment model do the Catholic hospitals usually use? Free to everyone? Or are they operating the hospitals but only under whatever insurance or government coverage exists? I’m sure it varies around the world but I’m curious about the US especially. I think I was born in a Catholic founded hospital. But it seems like they are just the care provider and not so much the funding provider. The world “healthcare” has two meanings in this way.
Yes, they do not pay all the costs. Often times they will write off debts or provide care for free. This is not always the case though. Typically they are funded like a for profit hospital with the major difference being there are no shareholders to take the profit.
I have heard estimates that they subsidize $60 billion a year in healthcare costs across the US.
I was trying to get a clearer picture of how many countries the Catholic Church could fund annually but estimating their money is very complicated. They are not centralized like the Mormon church and all their churches operate independently.
With estimates as high as $2 trillion of total revenue, in theory, they could pay for several European countries. But not something like the whole US that spends $5.3 trillion on healthcare.
I think this also touches on just general criticism of the Catholic church. Are they really good stewards of their money, is corruption a problem, etc. I have read a lot of conflicting information on these topics.
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Sorry Pope your follows say you are wrong lol
Not all of them. But far too many of them for sure.
protestants, including evangelicals, are not catholics and do not follow the pope
According to a 2024 Gallup survey, approximately 69% of the U.S. population—about 235 million out of 340 million people—identify as Christian.[1] A plurality of [Christian] Americans identify as Protestant (45%), followed by Catholics (22%). Smaller Christian groups include members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1.5%), Eastern Orthodox Christians (0.5%), and other Christian denominations (0.4%).[1]
Everyone should just die of diseases in the street. Hysterical!
My favorite thing is when rich people pretend to support things because they know, unequivocally, they'll never actually be held accountable for making them happen or their hypocrisy in living unimaginably luxurious lifestyles.
Like this asshole
"Oh that's it, he's going to Hell for sure!" -MAGA
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