Religion: Communion Toast Crunch

[Kepler]

Oh the horrors of a black pope.

We've had three.

(We probably haven't. We've had three Africans but they were Berbers or even Greeks.)

 

[Kepler]

TBH, hopefully it won't be one of the African bishops, as they're pretty much all conservadolts on human sexuality. They don't actually want to do anything about the AIDS epidemic because it gives them a convenient "divine punishment" for sex outside of marriage. Given than humans will have sex anyway (and they will since it's a primal need), what's the greater immorality - preventing unwanted conception before it even happens (thus no dreaded abortion), or potentially spreading AIDS and other STDs? I know the answer, the church just refuses to accept that there is no evil whatsoever, and in fact quite a bit of good in using contraception. And that, as much as any other reason, is why I renounced the RCC in my 20s. Its Puritanical idea of morality is black & white, it accepts no grey, and its one-sided blame of and hatred for women who don't shut up and play incestuous "boy mom" for some chud's spawn is abhorent.

After the 5 full minutes of Googling that makes me an expert, I think that one of them is a critic of the crazy Africa laws against LGBT. Turkson apparently started out as a derp and got civilized rubbing shoulders with the Europeans.

 

[Kepler]

Submitted without comment.

 

[Kepler]

Even by religious standards, even by American religious standards, just wow.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Even by religious standards, even by American religious standards, just wow.

Chad was an apocalyptic author and publisher who claimed to have visions of the future, lived through multiple past lives, and prophesied the world would end in July 2020. Lori had come to share his fringe beliefs; she became convinced that she was a deity destined to play a role in the coming apocalypse and that her family was getting in the way of her mission.

So...who was the grifter and who was the schizophrenic? Or por qué no los dos?

 

[Proud2baLaker]

Living in Idaho, that has been a major topic of conversation here since the news of it all first broke. Combined with the quadruple murders at the University of Idaho in 2022 and its been an eventful couple of years. The trial for the UI murders is expected to start in August.

 

[Kepler]

It's too bad American cardinals are dipshits because by population we're kind of due.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

It's true that the USCCB and Frank did not play nice. However, the US still has more than twice as many Protestants as it does Catholics. Also, back in Catholic high school, I had a teacher/priest opine at the time of the conclave that elected Benedict, that it was likely there would never be an American pope as long as the US remained a superpower.

 

[state of hockey]

It's true that the USCCB and Frank did not play nice. However, the US still has more than twice as many Protestants as it does Catholics. Also, back in Catholic high school, I had a teacher/priest opine at the time of the conclave that elected Benedict, that it was likely there would never be an American pope as long as the US remained a superpower.

Did we just stumble on to the actual reason the religious right is voting for that orange turd?

 

[Kepler]

It's true that the USCCB and Frank did not play nice. However, the US still has more than twice as many Protestants as it does Catholics. Also, back in Catholic high school, I had a teacher/priest opine at the time of the conclave that elected Benedict, that it was likely there would never be an American pope as long as the US remained a superpower.

That is probably true, and probably for the best.