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Rapid Response 47 is another Trump white alt spewing racist shit

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (86 children)

I hear that Muslims think that anyone that is not blessed in their religion, even infants, will go to hell. They have a single religious leader that has absolute control over their theocratic state and has influence over leaders from around the world (historically, even power over them). They have a history of holy wars, torture of those of other faith, and holding back any knowledge and scientific progress that challenges their doctrine. They adorn their holy places with devices of torture and execution. And they practice ritualistic cannibalism of a holy man regularly, even feeding it to their children.

Oh sorry... that's Catholics.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only some of that is true. Protestants are the ones who think everyone else is definitely hellbound, Catholics believe there's reasonable hope for the salvation of non-believers and the pope they started the year with stirred controversy by saying he personally liked to think hell is empty. Also the Vatican is technically under absolute papal control, but a) it's a square mile in the capital of another country, and b) it doesn't have a military. They can't really do anything with their absolute control except provide sanctuary. Now, I'm not going to act like their sanctuary is uncontroversial, they hid both fascists and their victims, and they do continue to hide their pedos there sometimes, but it's not like they have secret police disappearing people or citizens with no other allegiances, it's the only country you can't be born a citizen of.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The point wasn't to shit on Catholics. It was meant to demonstrate and mock how framing otherwise basically true facts in a certain way can turn what would otherwise be considered "normal" church history and religious activity into something more menacing. This is often used to vilify non-normalized religions, cultures, etc.

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