not body shaming but vance looks really weird
“I’m part of the church!!!”
“Huh. Don’t recognize you.”
Who is this weird little person who keeps showing up in memes?
OK. Hi. So hope long have you worked here.
No shot, is the pope actually dead? Is this how I find out?
Yup. He worm food now
up next: supreme court to decide if trump can choose the next pope
breaking news: trump has just anointed hulk hogan as the next pope
MY BROTHERRRR IN CHRIST
Catch me in Avignon with the nWo. Mick Foley died several times for our sins
Did not have a Henry VIII style split with the church on my bingo card, but let’s just get it over with. Can’t wait for US Catholics to get the option to openly follow their one true religion: Cheap, poorly managed, failing attempts at white American hegemony and hate.
One thing I really think the he should have done more was criticize the American version of Christianity. It’s divorced so much even from Protestantism that it should be called out. That one of the candidates to replace him is from the Philippines it will hopefully throw a wrench into the more racist aspects of it.
I don’t think a Catholic religious leader is really in much of a position to criticize Protestantism, do you? I mean I could see criticizing fundamentalism in general, but…
I don’t think the comment is suggesting they criticize Protestantism. I think they are suggesting that US Catholics faith no longer aligns with the Vatican and that it’s diverged to the point that in no longer even represents the idea of Christianity at large (Protestants) and more just some new thing (presumably where people pretend to read the Bible and just ignore all the commandments).
Ah, yeah that’s fair, I may have misunderstood. Although honestly cherry-picking the bible is neither new nor uniquely Protestant. I do wonder how uniquely American it is though, because there’s a very wide streak of it through American evangelicalism but I don’t hear too much about it from elsewhere in the world.
I thought he should. I should have specified the tradcath movement and by that I mean like if you go to Twitter or related platforms you get these people claiming to be catholic and stating that they are tradcaths, some idealized version of a catholic that believes in ‘traditional values’ and just general MRA, incel stuff that otherwise never ever made sense in catholicism. And then you have plenty of leaders in the States that repeatedly claim to be Christian or just outright make up stuff and pretend like their idealogy is completely approved by the Vatican (or they are just so ignorant they just assume all Christians follow the same ideaology). Paula White and JD Vance are a good examples of this.
It’s just that there’s a growing blurring in the States of Protestantism, Teleevangelism and Catholicism that I think the pope should have addressed.
Vatican 2 (updates such as being able to say Mass in a language that people can understand) pissed off a group of weird people, who have been quietly pretending that things the Pope says about not hating gay people aren’t official Church doctrine. It is surprising that they haven’t tried to set up their own counter Pope yet.
Lots of these American trad caths are people raised in that mega church vague non denominational Protestantism where rules don’t really matter. They get a little grossed out by the corporate slickness and callous capitalism (give give give, so we can improve our million dollar sound system), so they think they can keep doing what they’re doing - just with a little more class.
Oh, yeah that’s a different matter, the pope obviously has quite a lot of say about what Catholics should or shouldn’t be doing (for better or worse.) But the pope trying to criticize Protestant groups would just incite some very strong backlash.
Yea, I’m not gonna start criticizing him because I’ll just never stop, but I’ll at least agree with your point.
For what it’s worth, what the pope actually says/does has started mattering very little anyways. They no longer even pretend to care.
Can we start gambling on who the American Pope is going to be? My money is on Andrew Tate.
Why don’t they go the way of England and declare him god emperor Trump?
It has become kinda habit:
Same fucking energy really.
Fair but I still think this one describes that Situation pretty good as well
Is JD Vance one of the Anti Vaxxer bunch? Because if i was an old man hit by measles, tuberculosis and Covid at the same time i would also kick the bucket.
His military induction would’ve required a pile of vaccines if they weren’t up to date already.
CW: Needle phobia
Vets call it the “peanut butter shot” because it’s this huge needle with a barrel of every relevant vaccine that can be given all at once, and it feels like sludge entering the veins that fucks you up afterwards as you begin boot camp.
“Don’t you have a suit, old man?”
Pope, why don’t you wear a suit?
Did he even say thank you??
Why does Vance always look like somone’s shitty slenderman fanart?
Now that I see it, I’m having a tough time unseeing it.
Thanks
Vwoop
Ope, there goes the Pope
God only knows he's grown farther from home, he's no father He goes home and barely knows his own daughter But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water These hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product They moved on to the next schmoe who flows He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner But the beat goes on, da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah-dah-dah
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! The day is young and the meme train has just begun.
