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Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell.
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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Until they start paying tax and stop molesting children all of them can fuck right off.
As someone who is not an only atheist but an anti-theist, I have no love for the Catholic Church and either its ancient, middle-age, or present form. However, I’m also a realist. For the Catholic Church to even be publicly willing to discuss such matters (especially things like LGBTQ issues and female ordainment), well, even I’ll admit that something decent may come from this in the end, even if it’s not all what decent society may want (or demand).
In its history, the Catholic Church has been on of the world’s most renowned institutions for being inflexible in its conservative dogma. Extremely rarely do the even ever discuss openness, especially publicly, to changing doctrine. This is one of those extremely few times. I would be extremely shocked if nothing came from this, especially considering the current pope.
Certainly, there are many tractors that will hold back the more radical of proposed changes, but now is the time where we will see any serious changes were likely to see for a long time within the Catholic Church. I’m excited to see what manages to get done at this synod.
I am sure this is a "be careful what you wish for" moment, but part of me is hoping that the American conservative Catholics are insane enough to try appointing their own Trump-aligned antipope and schism from the church, just so that the more rational Catholics in the US can have their literal "Come to Jesus" realization about how far gone the political right has become.
I firmly believe that there is a scary number of Americans who would get behind such a move. But at this point, I have just about accepted that the political divide in the US will not end peacefully, so if that's our fate, I'd like to at least have the lines drawn cleanly.
You’re describing every form of Protestantism since Martin Luther.
C’mon…
A bit different; protestantism disagrees with the practice of having a centralized church at all, while other schisms in the Catholic church that took place in the past still maintained the church structure. They just appointed antipopes that were more politically aligned with their ideals.
Nothing will come from this.
It's not a "huh, maybe we were doing something wrong, maybe we should change" meeting, it's a "Oh, the peasants are getting uppity again, quick, say that were graciously considering human rights or something to calm them down" meeting.
It's the KKK holding a meeting considering on whether to allow black people to join.
We don't want something decent to come from the Catholic Church, though. It's the fact that they are so backwards and hateful that is causing them to lose adherents like crazy. This is what needs to continue. Making moves like accepting women and LGBTQ people only helps them stay alive even longer.
Hey Hitler killed Hitler, so call it even?
Nah fuck those robed pedophiles till we strangle the last politician with the last ones entrails.
Wtf. I’m saying that the Catholic Church only makes major changes to dogma once a millennium or so, and I’m pretty interested in what they’re gonna do since it affects the lives of countless billions of people. You can quibble over the fact that you don’t get all you want, and I agree that they’re still a shitty theistic monolithic organization, but I was talking about what benefits a change in their dogma would bring, not fixating on the shortcomings.
I’m not your enemy.
Until the pope can stop his priests and congregation from fucking children, is there any reason to think there will be any positive change?
Like most figures in religion and Catholicism, the pope is a fairweather friend for Catholics. When he's singing their tune they're happy to quote him and laud him for his god given thoughts. When he isn't, well we get exactly the reaction he's been given: his own people saying he is wrong even though they were claiming he is God's earthly representative just moments earlier.
I'm not outright saying nothing at all good can come of the effort to make change, as there will be some small minority that actually adhere to it, but I don't see that happening for the vast majority of Catholics who will continue in their bigotry.
Change over generations will occur moreso, but I think that was coming regardless of his stance. At least that's what recent history has shown us.
Are you of the belief that the Pope has super powers?
No, but they do
You're the one demanding the Pope be, at minimum, prescient, and ideally omniscient.
This is a laborious argument that adds nothing to the conversation. You can choose to read my words childishly or you can read them as they are meant. Everyone else was able to parse them, catch up with them.
I absolutely understood what your comment. I find your ask a bit impossible to fulfill.
Entertain yourself pretending to try.
I'm not the pope
It's a fairly famous quote.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
-Denis Diderot
Right. it just exposes your illiteracy.
"Being illiterate is not a moral failing. Being an asshole though." - You, two minutes after posting this.
Look in the mirror, asshole. Lol.
I was called Satan and psychotic while still calmly explaining the source of the quote.
Then called psychotic again.
Idgaf if you can't understand or what you think but I feel fine calling him an illiterate crybaby asshole.
Hey, not knowing something isn't wrong. It isn't illiteracy to not have read whatever that is related to, remember the xkcd comic on today's 10,000. I also only read the quote on lemmy.
Now their response is not the best of course.
Being illiterate is not a moral failing.
Being an asshole though.
I was actually mainly disagreeing with your use of illiterate as I mentioned.
il·lit·er·ate
/i(l)ˈlidərət/
adjective
adjective: illiterate
unable to read or write.
"his parents were illiterate"
Similar:
unable to read or write
unlettered
analphabetic
functionally illiterate
Opposite:
literate
ignorant in a particular subject or activity.
"the extent to which voters are politically illiterate"
Similar:
ignorant
unknowledgeable
uneducated
untaught
unschooled
untutored
untrained
uninstructed
uninformed
unlearned
unread
unenlightened
benighted
backward
nescient
Opposite:
literate
knowledgeable
uncultured or poorly educated.
"the ignorant, illiterate Town Council"
(especially of a piece of writing) showing a lack of education, especially an inability to read or write well.
"as you can see, I have corrected your misspelled, illiterate letter"
It doesn't simply mean unable to read or write.
Isn’t that like, part of the vows or something?
not just that but literally from this article:
"marriage is between a man and a woman"
no it fucking isnt. Source: all the places where you can get married without being a man and a woman.
they are saying pasta can only have red sauce while i eat a bowl of carbonara in front of them.
the best one can do now is say "marriage *should go back to being between a man and a woman", which they won't because they're fucking cowards.
they should own up to their own stupid ass beliefs.