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What weird false belief did you have as a kid? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At my Catholic high school, one of the teachers who was a Dominican sister told us that animals can't go to heaven but it's possible for them to be recreated in heaven.

I feel fine as long as my rabbit didn't go to purgatory or hell, but non-eternal souls are hard to relate to

[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pope John Paul II told her to kick rocks in 1990.

https://missdarcy.org/from-rainbow-bridge-to-pearly-gates/

Then in 1990, Pope John Paul II reversed that thinking and proclaimed that animals do have souls and are “as near to God as men are.”

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you could instantiate soulless virtual beings in heaven for your amusement at will, it would be way less boring. You could recreate Mortal Kombat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

instantiate

materialise?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, as in "to create instances of".