protestants deserve better from the pope is one hell of a take
"literally everything should cater to protestants" is a pretty standard protestant take tbf
We all deserve better than the pope. If you are an American trans person you are currently the victim of that asshole, he has directly made your life worse. If you are a trans person anywhere he's also made your life worse, but less directly.
I know this place has a weird fondness for the catholic church and a weird hate boner for protestants but posting reaction images from the fucking spanish inquisition is some clown shit.
That image is of a woman who was sentenced to death, and after refusing to name others to be executed, was instead stuffed with gunpowder and lit on fucking fire.
"america bad" gets you 90% of the way to correct and this is part of that 10%
Why is it weird to hate Protestants, I thought Christians were just hated in general here?
You will find actual apologia for the catholic church on this site.
all seven actual liberation theology people in the world post here
They got new converts?!
People have a soft spot for liberation theology, despite it never actually accomplishing liberation.
I will not condemn liberation theology, even if its efficacy may not be the greatest, and even if there are only about 5 of them left. I will point out that whenever there was a conflict involving any kind of progressive social movement within catholicism, the church always sided with the people trying to stamp them out. The catholic church would rather side with genocidal protestants than socialist catholics and it has shown this repeatedly.
And if we are to look at the legacy of liberation theology and so forth, why not look to the history of black protestant churches in the struggle against white supremacy? Why does one matter but the other does not?
I firmly believe its cultural cringe and this site being majority from protestant dominated cultures, same as with the opposition to stated atheism.
I don't think anyone here is going to defend the historical record of the Catholic church. I think it'd be hard to find people who would say the church is a net positive force as it stands today.
What I see is a combination of people posting some decent takes from the pope on one single issue, and then laughing at the horrible right-wing reactions that result. The focus is on even the Catholic church outflanking almost the entire U.S. political class from the left.
I'm not disagreeing with you here, other than it's not 'cultural cringe', as I despise that particular framework. It is a vestigial contrarian impulse, not born out of any particular historical examination.
It's 'trolling' but trolling doesn't actually build anything.
Most humane puppy punter award
Yeah it's always pretty weird as someone from a rather catholic country.
Oh wtf I havent run into any yet the Catholic Church should be hated even more than the Protestants
Where
The website hexbear.com
Shit
Actual apologia or "Papists are better than Prods?" It's a definitely true statement for occupied Ireland where the Indigenous Irish are Catholic while the settler Brits are Protestants. It's mostly true in the US too since both Catholic and Evangelical clergy engage in rampant pedophilia, but the Catholic laity has slightly better politics than the Evangelical laity.
Think it might be from Chapo influencing the culture against Protestantism. Like an echo from their influence or Matt Christman's influence via their takes on Christianity.
From the context of the post I assumed that engraving was depicting girolamo savonarola
Its a depiction of an anabaptist woman in Amsterdam.
I wonder how many of these types even know why the Protestant reformation took place
Has the papacy become too political?
these fucking bozos.
Has ketchup become too much of a condiment?
Has bear shit too often ended up in the woods?
Is the Pope too Catholic?
Why does this read like LLM?
I'll give you two guesses
It's not an LLM - it's an innovation in the nature of human communication
This isn't about hating the Pope — it's about
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… “Board of Peace” — and he refused it.
I’ve noticed LLMs are allergic to “,
The only way I know I’m talking to a human for sure is when I see a .).
Protestants should be done with the fucking pope and the catholic church, it's kinda the whole point of being a protestant isn't it? Like if they actually gave a shit about listening to the pope they'd just be Catholics no? Shouldn't they be busy with their "personal relationship with god" and having their own individual interpretations of the bible (which most haven't read beyond cherry-picked out-of-context passages that support their worldview)?
I have my criticisms of the sect I was raised in but thank fucking god at least they didn't give a flying fuck about the pope
edit: adding more: Like if you aren't a catholic why does the pope have any special spiritual weight? Either you believe he's Gods Chosen Representative on Earth and therefore you should just be a catholic or you disagree with that and the pope is just a guy in Rome (or sometimes Avignon) with a silly hat and way too much power
Like if you aren't a catholic why does the pope have any special spiritual weight?
He doesn't. Zero. I grew up Protestant (it didn't take, I had good Critical Thinking Skills from the start), and I never heard one word about the Pope. He was the Catholics' guy, not our problem. He had absolutely no influence on my family or anyone at church.
When a new Pope gets crowned, or whatever, there's no spiritual feeling about it at all, no excitement or hope for the future of the church or humanity, no connection with God, etc., it's just something the Catholics are up to this week.
Liberals famously support Russia in the Ukraine war
This clown unironically has a better understanding of the politics of the Ukraine war than libs do, ultimately Putin is a lib and a centrist
Probably more of a broken clock situation tho
I wonder what the world looks like if Rome never adopted Christianity, surely it can't be worse
Why So Many Hellenists Are Done with the Modern Magistratus 
Hellenized Islam?
I suppose the best hinge point for that theoretical would be the apostate emperor not immediately dying.
I hate Christians so goddamn much sometimes
Well.
Most of the time
All religions really
And people who don't wipe down the machines after they use them at the gym
I hate Christianity the most because it's the one with the biggest negative impact on my life
I think I'm in a toxic relationship with Christianity. Its teachings and pressures have nearly driven me to death multiple times, but it's been so drilled into me it's hard to let go of. I'm getting there but only slowly and painfully.
My big issue is American Christians tbh. The rest are a mixed bag, but every yank religious type I've met has been some sort of merchantile baptist
We've got some cool Christians on here actually they just keep a low profile. There's even a history of left wing activism in the church here in the US. Nuns and priests used to break in to draft offices to burn registration cards. Jessica Rezniceck is a Catholic worker.
They don't get a lot of press obviously bc chuds vastly outnumber them but I wouldn't paint with so broad of a brush
Yeah, yeah. And Oskar Schindler is listed as Righteous Among the Nations. The record of the Catholic church is still one of largely genocide and oppression. Those Catholics are still choosing to associate themselves with a deeply evil, regressive organisation.
I don't hate individual Catholics/members of other churches who nevertheless choose to do good, but those organisations are absolutely indefensible regardless.
Hence the protestant reformation. Look there's no love lost here for the Catholic church but my only point is Christians as a whole shouldn't be dismissed outright, there's good Christians on here.
Trump's "Board of Peace" has the two biggest genociders in the world on it, anyone who has even been half paying attention knows it was always 
lmao these heretics are hilarious, they really don't give a shit
MAGAs get all upset when celebrities and religious figures call out their corruption and hypocrisy, unless the celebrities and religious figures are on their side, then it's violating their free speech.
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