The Vatican document was compiled by a committee of celibate feudal lords wearing archaic robes and signed and endorsed by their celibate king, wearing his silly hat in his magnificent palace, and declaring it all to be the direct word of their god.
I don't think they understand anyone's lives.
Have you seen who guards the Pope? These are not people who live in the real world.
lmao that is a group of the goofiest looking people I have ever seen
Goofy, but they train with small arms. To be fair, they do dress in plain clothes when outside the Vatican, but it still shows how divorced from everything they all are, because a lot of the church hierarchy in the Vatican stay there for life.
I do kinda wish that any military groups keep the same style of dress uniforms from when the regiment was created. The UK does this a little but it would be great seeing a hodgepodge of US regiments looking like Theodore Roosevelt's Roughnecks next to guys in Civil War looking outfits and WWII kit. We still dress people in goofy robes for college and hugh school graduation, so why not the army?
surprising that they dont use swords
You will be happy to hear they still use halberds instead.
Mmmm halberds. Slicey.
Technically, I think they're called voulges.
I am by no means am expert.
I just went of this:
The halberd is still the ceremonial weapon of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican.
And I am pretty sure that in German they call the weapon of the Swiss Guard Hellebarde.
Took long enough for an Archer reference ITT. Thanks.
If a clowncar was a state...
lol this is an amazing picture, thank you
The man who is supposed to be closest to god needs guards to protect him and is driven around in a bullet proof popemobile.
It’s weird seeing a picture of the pope where he doesn’t have the silliest hat.
This pope only wears a slightly silly hat.
If someone told me this image was AI i would believe them
OH-EE-OH, YO-OH!
declaring it all to be the direct word of their god.
I'm not going to try to defend this any further than to say they're not claiming it's the "direct word of god" or anything. They claim it's their interpretation, and that their interpretation is definitely right, which is probably worse.
"I never thought the leopards would eat my face!"
Ah yeah, the trans community. Totally didn't already know they were generally not accepted by Abrahamic religions. Weren't just given a tiny glimmer of hope to desperately hang on to that they might be accepted. Also are Catholic because Catholicism hurts the right people.
Religion is a helluva drug.
…don’t you think this is a little dismissive? Maybe I’m wrong but most people are catholic because they were raised that way.
It sure would suck if something I had no control over excluded me from my own culture/religion/family. In fact, if I found myself in that situation, the right thing to do would be to make changes, if I could, for other people like me and those people’s families.
By the way, I do think religion as an institution sucks. But, I don’t think these people are supporting face-eating leopards. These people live in the jungle already, their choice is to leave or fight leopards.
"I was raised that way" is an excuse that holds no water. Trans people were raised to believe that they were their sex assigned at birth and they came to the conclusion that that didnt fit them. They can re-evaluate other beliefs just the same.
They were born into a family who supports face eating leopards. That sucks! But now as an adult they've continued to support the face eating leopards. Sure being indoctrinated into a religion is a tough thing to break out of... but when you are being attacked by the very people who indoctrinated you it should rapidly become obvious they don't have your best interest at heart.
Alternate headline: "Transgender catholics show no understanding of their religion."
To be fair (🎵to be faiiiiiiiiiirr . . ) Jesus never said anything about trans people, and the Talmud (which Jesus was ostensibly a big fan of) has eight - count 'em eight - specific genders already specified and ready to go.
So really it's the Catholic Church who's not understanding - very possibly intentionally. But there we go. SSDD.
FWIW I think Francis got a good old fashioned political situation handed to him and, for whatever it was worth to him, caved.
But they're choosing to follow the Catholic Church by being Catholic, so the point still stands.
Not to say that the life view of any ancient peoples are wholy applicable to modern life but holy shit based
But... they're all in dresses all the time!
Man... this is like a black person trying to be a legitimate member of the kkk... '....but I believe in most of the same things as you guys! Why do you guys want to lynch me too?! I'm so confused!!!'
I know Dave Chapelle is a shithead now, but I can't help but think of the Chapelle Show sketch about the blind black Klansman who doesn't know he's black.
Kanye West is an openly black white supremacist and he is not the first. The first openly black white supremacist was a person named William Hannibal Thomas, who wrote The American Negro in 1901, a loathsome work that was so derogatory towards blacks that white supremacists of that time used his writings to support their claims about the inferiority of blacks.
Didn't know about WH Thomas. History is full of strange people, I suppose.
I mean I guess the difference is that the stated goal of the KKK is white supremacy, while the stated goal of the Catholic Church certainly isn't cis-hetero-normativity. That's just a fun side product.
"Trans Member of Conservative Group Shocked by Mistreatment of Trans People"
It would seem that the face eating leopards are very inclusive and will eat your face regardless of what you identify as
I will never understand how LGBTQIA people can remain religious after reading the bible. It literally tells people to stone you to death with big fucking rocks.
Or women picking and choosing what parts of the Old Testament to use as weapons against others
At least straight men could be argued to have self interest involved, but even then it's absurd what rules it sets.
I'm shocked, shocked I say, that the people who live in their own religious state that is walled off from the world and has been there for a thousand years don't have an understanding of the lives of modern people.
Very nice art though. Some of the best, really.
Oh fuck the pope
I completely get how LGBTQ people are drawn to Jesus' message of peace and forgiveness so I can see why they'd want to be included in 'Christianity', but I don't get why they'd care about being Catholic.
If you're raised Catholic and think that's the only way into heaven and then find out that way doesn't include you- maybe rethink the initial assumption.
It's pretty easy, they should just create some sort of conversion therapy, it's not like you are born like that and there is 0 biological reason or proof for that sort of condition. I mean it's pretty easy to choose any other spiritual outlet or meaning to life than religion.
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