Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres), perhaps the Pope can grace us all by paying property taxes from this point onward? The church's unimaginable wealth should be able to cover it... everybody else manages it somehow.
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what? the vatican is larger than the US? aahahahahahahahahaha
Did you know the Catholic church is much larger than the Vatican? IT'S TRUE
ha hahaha hahaha hahahaha haaahaahahahahahaha
if the vatican has more property than Russia and even all of BRICs combined, 😃
Cult leader in white robe writes about stuff he doesn't understand.
I grew up so ideologically opposed to these guys that I hate it when they make a good point. 😩
They forgive you.
I stand behind Leo's message 100%,
but you have to admit it is kind of funny that the original gaslighter organization which uses positive reinforcement to brainwash people into worshiping a deity of their own creation is trying to stop tech companies from doing the exact same thing, lol.
They are competing
OMGAWD yesss
me when I know absolutely nothing about the Church and I watched a single netflix documentary
I was raised Catholic, actually. Went to bible camp every summer, sang in the choir. The book is fantasy fiction and the preacher's livelihood depends on convincing people that all good things come from god and all bad things come from humanity.
Please read the Bible further.
May I have some of the verses you read that made you think that?
and no it does not, not at all
Most religious orders (the way that most people become priests or brothers) do not have you earn your own money, you live in formation houses or active communities with priests and brothers
Clearly I've read the bible more, and in more versions of, than you.
again, verses?
translations depend on literalness and the way its said
for example
the difference between
"I ate a bunch of fruit today"
and
"A bunch of fruit was consumed by me today"
Yeah but then you say a bunch of racist authoritarian shit and try to shrug it off as sarcasm when the crowd turns against you. You're not allowed to decide you were joking after the fact.
please elaborate
I said if you stand against marking things with /s then you're promoting the ability say horrible shit without consequences. No matter how outlandish, how stupid, how absurd you think a statement is: that is somebody's real opinion.
?????
That's the point of the garden of Eden story. God made everything and everyone, but we broke his impossible rules and now he punishes us forever, to the point that infants are born with sin.
It's a death cult.
and Jesus Christ wasnt created by the Church.....
Jesus? No, but he was used by them. Christ? Yes, complete fabrication.
Jesus Christ literally said he is the Son of Man and assigned Pope Peter as the "rock" of his church
Jesus Christ
Again, there is no such thing as a christ, magic isn't real.
literally said he is the Son of Man
Isn't everyone?
and assigned Pope Peter as the "rock" of his church
And what does that mean? One of these four interpretations? https://www.gotquestions.org/upon-this-rock.html
Or something else entirely? Let's ask Jesus. Oh right... he died.
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There is, stop strawmanning it to "magic"
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The Son of Man as in the Messiah. Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him: “You have said it. Yet truly I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the power of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
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Jesus told him to "feed my sheep".
There is, stop strawmanning it to "magic"
Can god make something out of nothing? That is magic. Can god reverse death? That is magic.
What's up with the blood sacrifices and rituals? Totally-not-magic?
The Son of Man as in the Messiah. Matthew 26:64 Jesus said to him: “You have said it. Yet truly I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the power of God, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Messiah meaning savior? To save us from the punishments god created for us?
Jesus told him to "feed my sheep".
Jesus was kind of a dick like that, yeah. If we believe the gospels.
- To save us from sin
2.?
Again:
To save us from the punishments god created for us?
You keep cherry-picking parts you think you can answer (though all you have is apologetics, fallacies) and ignoring the parts that prove your death cult is baseless and harmful.
Fucking scum, fuck you for choosing death.
to save us from sin
Again:
To save us from the punishments god created for us?
If he is all-powerful, he chose to create sin.
Pretty sure that documentary would be the more consistent and factually based religious piece of media out there.
when you just look at your machine like this 👁️👄👁️ because the reply is complete excreta
We in the USA have a issue with secular and non secular idol worship... The pope is a CEO... Kinda like his own little corpo kingdom... kinda like these billionaire welfare queen pdfile anarcho capitalist libertarian tech ceos..and it seems like both parties can't keep their hands off the kids. Like musky boy is trying to create or already created. These catholic clergy are just grifters and fraudsters. It is sad to watch the elderly spiral into madness and these vampires love taking advantage of the weak while posing as "the good guy".... the world is a inversion of what people actually believe. It is hard to keep your head on straight with such a heavy knowledge base. I looked into the abyss and it spit in my eye.
The pope's AI encyclical was good reading and reminds us to center human dignity, compassion, etc. Lots of ethics to explore with regard to AI and related cultural phenomena.
So when my priest raped me and the church protected him, that was an example of the ethical views and compassion and respect for human dignity you're talking about?
I guess I always have more to learn from this amazing institution, like how I'm an abomination for being queer.
you are not whoever told you this was doing the work of Satan
all of us are God's creations, and God doesnt make mistakes
your sins do not define you, the crucifixion set you free of them. Have faith in Christ.
And may I ask for your diocese or archdiocese? Have you reported him to the police yet? I am incredibly sorry that happened to you
The Pope (yes this one your precious Leo) calls me an abomination because I have had bottom surgery.
when has he said that?
"The idea of promoting gender ideology is confusing because it seeks to create genders that don't exist. So God created man and woman, and the attempt to confuse ideas from nature will only harm families and people"
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393705/pope-leo-stance-issues-lgtbq-climate-women-politics
Deadly ignorance.
im sorry, I dont see the word abomination here. It is harmful, but he didn't call it an abomination
https://www.ncronline.org/news/vaticans-condemnation-trans-surgery-new-theologians-discuss
But he also recently approved a new treatise on human dignity that lists "gender theory" and gender-affirming surgeries — which many, though not all, trans people undergo — among the "grave violations of human dignity in our time," placing them alongside sexual abuse, human trafficking, poverty and abortion.
I'm sure you meant well, but "have faith in Christ" is not an appropriate thing to say to someone that was assaulted by their priest.