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He's not just trolling MAGA, he's trolling the media. Now they have to make a choice as to which event they cover. Do they cover the Pope, and his anti-MAGA message, or do they cover HitlerPig's latest empty flex?
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I'm liking him so far
Yep, this new pope is off to a great start.
I bet 110% media coverage will be in DC
If he wasn’t a sexist and a homophobe I’d actually like that guy. But Catholics have a long history of misrepresenting scripture to suit their political purposes, and centuries of bad habits are hard to break.
The scriptures themselves are misogynistic and homophobic. The religion is rotten.
Judeo-Christian scriptures are many things, including misogynistic (women are literally considered property), but they are not, and never have been, homophobic. Not defending them, just pointing out one of those fun facts that gets overlooked because people accept what they’re told - including in the form of compromised translations - without ever raising a finger to confirm if it’s accurate. They want to believe it, so they do.
The Bible is explicitly anti-homosexual.
But when it says to stone gay dudes to death, you have to read it in cOnTeXt! And there’s a handful of fringe theologians who think they were actually just talking about gay pedo rapists!
And I mean who knows, maybe they want to get the gays high. You know, stoned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“The Bible” doesn’t exist. It’s a collection of disparate works by many different authors, from different cultures, over hundreds-to-thousands of years. Despite that, there is not a single “anti-homosexual” line anywhere in it. The word itself does not even exist in any of the original texts. Translations that include the word “homosexual” have deliberately mistranslated… and English translations in particular are especially guilty of this.
Again, I am not defending the many heinous things in those texts, I am pointing out how they have been abused, misused, and twisted by a corrupt political power for it’s own benefit.
Lol ok. Sure thing, the Bible doesn't exist.
So the proscription against gays sex in leviticus, the description of "shameful acts" in romans 26-28, or the condemnation in corinthians and timothy are what exactly?
You may want to believe, and want me to believe, that these do not exist or are always mistranslated, but I can't believe that without evidence.
I'm also not sure why you separate the original texts from the modern circulating translations.
The bible is a living collection which is added to and removed from over time. It is what Christians believe it to be. If most Christians are using faulty translations, that is the bible.
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women are literally considered property
And what do you think life was like when those scriptures were written?
There is worthwhile sexism in current Christianity to complain about without posturing that 1,500 year old text reflects life 1,500 years ago
The pope is catholic. The catholic bible is definately homophobic. It has multiple references to a man lying with a man, and man treating a man as a woman.
It talks about incestuously raping your male slaves (but female slaves are fine if you follow some extra rules), about raping children, and about temple prostitution. None of those things concern homosexuality, particularly monogamous, consensual, not-of-the-same-household same-sex relationships.
The catholic church has twisted those things into something completely different than what they say. But we have those texts in their original languages and they are pretty darn clear. I’m amazed the church has gotten away with it for so long… but then they do have a policy of “what the church says is as good as scripture” so…
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Name one Christian denomination that doesn't have a history of using scripture for political purposes.
I'm not saying misrepresenting because that's an obvious sola scriptura protestant lens, that obviously doesn't apply to non protestants.
Organized religion is a racket. I’m not defending it, I’m pointing out that they don’t even know their own source material.
As an atheist I don't really have skin in the game, but unorganized religion can also be a racket. At least with organized religion there can exist some degree of accountability, whereas with new age quacks there is nothing.
Name one denomination that doesn’t have a history of using scripture for political purposes.
There, FTFY
Two-Scoops wanted this parade in his first term, but the military told him the roads in DC wouldn't take the weight or something. Apparently he wanted it so bad he made somebody find a city where it would work. edit: my bad, I assumed he was having the parade in Chicago, it will be in DC - where the army says it will do $16 million in damage to the streets. This has been factored into the $45 million price tag. Fun trivia: this is enough to build 3 new typical size high schools - but at least we know it's for a good cause! Happy Birthday, Taco Boy.
I’m all for the complaints but no way you build a high school for that little these days. You might be surprised just how expensive all the services can be.
While I do live in a large town in a high cost of living state and we got one with all the fixings, our just finished new high school was
- $377,719,720
Most will be cheaper but not anywhere near as cheap as you expect
Well yeah, you can spend as much as you want, but according to what I looked up the average cost of a TYPICAL high school (I was careful to use that word) was $7-8 million in 2024.
https://truthinamericaneducation.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-school/
High schools tend to be the most expensive type of K-12 educational facility to construct, with costs ranging from $50 million to $100 million or more for a comprehensive institution serving around 1,500 students.
But I see what you mean, what I see online is all over the place. This might be telling - Maine is cheaper and tends to have smaller schools but check out the serious inflation in sq ft construction cost
In 2015, it cost $270 per-square-foot to rebuild an elementary school. In 2017, it cost $313 and in 2018, $379. In 2023 the cost jumped to $491 and in 2024 reached $661. The cost of building middle and high schools in the state follows the same trend.
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