Pope Francis has died

[tomhow]

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[borlox]

J D, what did you do!?

[penguin_booze]

He asked the pope whether he said 'thank you' even once since Jan 2025.

[newsclues]

Interesting timing for this movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclave_(film)

[foldr]

I can’t help but feel that JD Vance has Liz Trussed the Pope.

[nabla9]

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." – Steven Weinberg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg

Catholicism is full of good people. Fortunately Catholicism has mostly lost it's grip of people in the developed world, but it still wrecks havoc in the Africa. The tried to correct the course a little bit, but not really. He should have spoken ex cathedra to make waves, but he never did so. Even the most conservative Catholics only believe what they already believe and it would have just created schism. "Catholic God" speaks only to protect the institution, not the people.

[october8140]

made a new account just for this comment?

[leosanchez]

Must have thanked him at least once.

[richardatlarge]

Poison travels in many forms

[mmsc]

If you step back for a second, you are claiming that billions of people are insane.

Taking a singular, highly-specific (in the context of humanity and for the thousands of years that Catholicism has existed) issue and conflating it to insanity or sanity is, perhaps, insane in of itself.

[logicchains]

In the long run, culture like genes is to a large degree spread by reproductive success. Religions/belief systems that discourage reproduction eventually die out to be replaced by those that encourage it. All liberal/secular cultures currently have below-replacement birthrates, and hence will eventually be replaced by less liberal ones. So by the raw logic of evolution, it's very sane for religions to discourage lifestyles that lead to less childbirth, as to prolong their lifespan they need their adherents to keep having more children than adherents of competing ideologies.

[a_e_k]

I won't be surprised if this thread ends up locked, the way it's going.