• elbucho@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A bit torn on this, tbh. 'Cause on the one hand, good - fuck that guy. He’s trash and he deserves to be thrown out for being trash. But on the other hand, as far as I’m aware, none of those priests that fucked children were excommunicated. So according to the head of the catholic church, slagging off the pope is worse than fucking children? Seems like a weird set of priorities.

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      5 months ago

      The first priest that the PR Pope excommunicated, in 2013, earned it by speaking out for women to be ordained (he also supported marriage equality, but the ordaining women thing seems to be the main issue).

      In Melbourne. The same city where George Pell molested children and protected other molesters. George Pell, a child who the Pope appointed to the Council of Cardinal Advisers.

      Child molestation isn’t a lesser sin to the church. It’s a non-sin.

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        5 months ago

        I mean, where in the Bible does it say you can’t rape children? The bible doesn’t condemn rape of adults or children. It’s not a sin to rape anyone at all.

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          5 months ago

          The bit that western xtians like to say means don’t do gay sex could be better translated to “don’t fuck your apprentices”

          But king James was fucking his advisors, who were more than twice his age, while they were translating the bible into English so they took some creative liberties