• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    As an ex catholic, this sort of thing is part of why it’s so hard to fully separate myself from them. They’ve done so much evil, but right now they’re doing exactly the good I was scared they may not.

    Just waiting for Vance to be excommunicated.

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      Peter Thiel calling the pope the “anti-Christ” made me think the pope is pretty fucking cool. It also makes Peter Thiel look like a clown.

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        The dude is gay and still in the closet even though he’s a billionaire. What is he afraid of?

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          The guy was so butthurt about it that he had Gawker taken down.

          That already shows he is really quite the freak, but the fact that he’s so hopped up by the likes of Curtis Yarvin and the nonsense in The Sovereign Individual is next-level-craziness.

          And then, on top of that, you add in his weird obsession with xtian eschatology, and it’s truly a real WTAF.

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      Well… The problem is that the Catholic Church does not act as a unified body, especially in America.

      Trad Catholics in America have been hating the pope since basically Vatican II. That doesn’t mean that “they are at war with the church”, just that organizations like Opus Dei are actively trying to pull the church further to the right.

      So while some of the church maybe doing good, the other part of the church is ending abortion rights and partaking in other crazy shit on the supreme court.

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        11 hours ago

        Americans taking religion to the extreme so much they don’t even seem Christian anymore .