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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

There's something about all these millennial and younger gamer chud culture warrior diphits smugly cosplaying as Christians that just fucking irks me

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Vatican flag is worse. Those are usually full Nazis.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Always newly converted tradcaths who hate the current pope

[-] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Like I said in my other post, I know literally zero Latin American Catholics who hate the Pope. Not a single one. It's literally only American adult convert tradcaths who get fucking weird about this sort of shit lol

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Latin catholic ultras who hate the Pope can all be found in a small town in the Brazilian State of Paraná.

This is not a joke. They are there.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, that's typical Paraná ahaha

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I know literally zero Latin American Catholics who hate the Pope

Huh, I know a few that say he's a communist and should be replaced for being too friendly on LGBT+ issues. Maybe it's because they're Brazilians though...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

So many of them are basically terminal stage reactionary 40k LARPers that keep thinking of le epic crusades and killing for heaven points.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

explains some stumbling into Eastern Orthodoxy too

getting a little too into the Byzantine Empire, playing one too many "restore the Roman Empire" playthroughs

although i guess that's more a EU5 thing

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Why doesn't the ~~Emperor of Mankind~~ Pope declare Exterminatus on the homosexuals?????

[-] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Picturing one of them showing up to a church mutual aid thing like feeding the hungry and being pissed off that they're not preaching about the evils of SJWs.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure the churches these people would attend would be more like the Westboro Baptist Church

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I'd be willing to bet those people dont attend church and are in a "personal relationship with God"

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's just their ultimate everything-proof shield for being assholes with horrible views. Regular conservatives have been doing this for decades, but it's interesting to see these younger gamer types finally come around to it after insisting for so long they were actually just moderates and that it was the extreme left that "had gone crazy"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have a friend who's a preacher in a small southern town and he says that's exactly what his parishioners are like. There was a police murder in the nearest major city and his regulars asked him why his sermon wasn't about the evils of looting.

Also have a relative who retired early because of the rightward lurch of his congregation.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Anyone with an active Twitter account should be tossed into a volcano

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dude, I always wonder why the fuck it is that American Christians, especially adult converts, are so fucking weird about it. In Brazil and Latin America as a whole you're kind of born Christian by default and pretty much everybody I know in my generation has been baptized as a Catholic as a child, myself included.

Devout Latin American Catholics are some of the most unassuming people you'll ever meet. They'll go to church regularly, pray at home, maybe they'll have some kind of jewelry with a cross, and images of saints at home, but they generally don't talk about it. Evangelicals do have a certain tendency to be more annoying and vocal at times, but still, most of them are chill about it.

So why the fuck is it that Americans seem to be the only ones discussing the Council of Trent and theological theses and calling themselves tradcath or some other bullshit so often? It's like they have no other social signifiers and are desperately grasping for any sort of identity, so they latch on to the weirdest forms of Christianity and do not shut up about it.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

a lot of Americans confuse their cultural consumption choices with having a personality.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Alienation in the Imperial Core. People strive for belonging and your very limited time not spent at work, commuting, sleeping or eating is very limited, and so is everyone around you. If you do find an in group, be it fishing, religion, Warhammer 40,000, a kink, drinking culture, fandom, cycling, etc, you cling on to it harder.

And because you cling on to it harder, you're also susceptible to perceived threats. The Democrats are taking x away, woke is ruining my hobby, the infallible Pope is ruining my Catholicism.

And capital sees this and sinks it's teeth into it. "Oh you like fishing? Here's a hat that displays that! Your wife won't let you spend that much time and money on fishing? Here's a more expensive hat that complains about your wife and mention how much you like fishing"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I believe this exact same dynamic plays out with Western practicioners of Buddhism versus every day Buddhism as its practiced in Asian countries

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Americans really love their signifiers of negative freedom ("freedom from") and negative identity, and they turn those into religions just as much as any religion they might actually practice. So the tradcath thing is partly a silly aesthetic pose (e.g. Dasha from Red Scare), but it also usually serves an actual need, even if it's something really neurotic. As the evangelical Protestants have become so perniciously anti-intellectual and backward, the tradcath option looks more appealing to those who value education and at least a minimal amount of intellectual content to their spirituality. It also has a big performative aspect (lots of costume dress-up for the clergy, Latin Mass zealotry, etc.) that allows one to differentiate from the evangelicals (negative identity). My guess is that's why you see so many high-profile converts lately among the power elite.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

If you see that in someone's display name, you're about to read the most vile thing that's ever been posted by a person without any shame in the process whatsoever.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I continue to dream of the day when Bill Hicks is no longer 100% relevant: Crosses

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wish someone told that to Moctezuma

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Doesn't a crucifix next to a name imply the person is deceased?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not sure how they show up on your system but these emojis represent different religions ✝️☪️✡️🕉️☸️

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the clarification, the one in the title looked like an ascii key instead of an emoji.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You're right, it does look like the ascii symbol now. It showed up as the emoji when I posted the topic though 🤔

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The guy from Schenectady, NY with the orthodox cross in handle

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

no, because even tho religion is bullshit you should still be allowed to belive in it... IF you don't hurt anyone on the base of your belives

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sure, but Twitter weirdos ≠ all religious people

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