Oh Noes!!

Nooo! Not the filosophy of Christ! We're supposed to keep crucifying rational people and then ask for or buy some redemption 🙏

Why seem Americans to call everybody Marxist they don't like?
I don't want to troll, I am really interested in an answer.
- A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism. Historically, red scares have led to mass political persecution, scapegoating, and the ousting of those in government positions who have had connections with left-wing movements.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
  It's just a boogeyman word to make them sound scary. Laura Loomer literally does not know what marxist means beyond "communism". In fact, she doesn't even know what communism is, she has just been told it's bad.
- I mean... It's Laura Loomer. She's like bottom of the barrel QAnon nazi.
  
  To be honest, it's the first time I read about her. I didn't know her before.
- Only the fascist Americans do that.
  They're trying to scare the moronic hillbillies into thinking Marxism is bad.
  
  so just plain old propaganda?
  Ok, thanks.

Catholics don't have anything good to look forward to
Well you've still got children to prey on. So you've got that going for you.

Had me in the first half

Well well well, no need to sell him even more, I already like him
- Except for his covering up of child molestings and his stance on LGBT and female priesthood he seems alright.
  But that means he's still a step down from Francis and it still means he won't bring the church into the 21st century.
  But I guess it could have been way worse.
  
  Thats very much true as well :(

MAGA are demonic. They are literally driven by hatred and evil, and those that lead them pray only to money.

Can we bring back excommunication?
- The problem is that many of the Christians in the US aren't Catholic. Thus, it probably won't help if the pope excommunicated them.

Jesus is NOT alright with Republicans.
Not the Jesus of the New Testament going by his teachings, and not the Jesus that literally labors for the very food the raging hypocrites eat.
Atheists like myself at least don't care about Jesus Christ. But as someone raised Roman Catholic, with a grandmother that recognized the benevolent teachings of the New Testament, I can verify one of the Republican's apparently ridiculous claims is absolutely true:
There is absolutely a war inside America against Christianity.
Republicans are the ones waging it though, as they worship a gold plated nepo slumlord gameshow host idol no less.

If Loomer hates the new pope, that's the only endorsement I need to hear!

Damn, they make him sound way more based than he is.
- I got excited when I saw Marxist and then realized who wrote it. Genuinely thought this was gassing up the pope at first.

Oh cool, glad to know these people hate him. That's a good sign to me.
- Fucking high praise and a strong endorsement right there.
  Heh, instead of the college of Cardinals, they should have just sent a list to trump and picked the one he ranted on the longest.

Let me translate for you:
“This is the new pope.
His name is Robert Prevost.
He models Jesus in thought and action.
Maga have nothing good to look forward to.
Just another selfless caring individual in the Vatican.”
- He models Jesus in thought and action.
  Let's see him in action, first.
- He's against climate change and racism, but for homophobia and transphobia and somewhat neutral on misogyny, according to Wikipedia. I think you're giving him too much credit.

Marxist puppet? Are these "Marxists" in the room with you right now?
Who would be pulling the strings for Marxists in 2025? Uh... Cuba? Lemmy.ml? Lenin reanimated as a Communist Lich King?
- tHe dEeP sTatE RaDiCaL LeFt
- My heart wants the second coming of Karl Marx himself, but my gut says zombie Stalin
  
  My gut also says zombie Stalin.

Hilarious to call the pope Marxist. Wasn’t it Marx who called religion the opiate of the masses? Few communist countries tolerate religion much at all.
- Yeah, there’s a BUNCH of Latin American Catholics that would read “Marxism = anti-religion” as news to them. (See: Liberation Theology)
- He didn't say that as a bad thing.
  The Communist Manifesto spends time talking about how compatible early Christian teachings are with Marx's goals.
  
  The Communist Manifesto spends time talking about how compatible early Christian teachings are with Marx’s goals.
  I mean:
  From each according to his ability, to each depending on his need
  Is literally just taken from the Bible:
  Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_needs
  But the Romans already had it:
  If x = a disadvantage, and y = action to redress that disadvantage, the principle of solidarity is: if any member of a group acquires x, each member has a duty to perform y (if they can assist). All we then need to add, to get to the fundamental principle of developed communism, is to assume that non-satisfaction of a need is a disadvantage. The corresponding principle of solidarity in respect of need says: if any member of society has an unsatisfied need, each member has a duty to produce its object (if they can). But that is precisely what the principle 'from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs!' dictates. In Marx's vision, the basic principle of developed communism is a principle of solidarity in respect of need.
  Capitalism in any form is an incredibly recent development, and the reason European colonialism was so successful is they made "deals" with people who had no idea what scale things were working on.
  It's like if a friend's older brother ever "taught" you how to throw dice, by the time you get a grip on the rules, you've lost all your money and dude's dipped out of the house.
- As with the "abolition of private property" people quotes what's convenient. The whole quote goes:
  Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
- To be fair a lot of the quotes attributed to Marx were just common phrases he rephrased, or a giant wall of text reduced by someone else to a memorable quote stripped of all context:
  The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
  Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
  The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people#Full_quotation_and_history
  And it came from an unpublished response to someone else's work. After he was dead his follower pared all of that down to:
  Religion is the opium of the masses
  And let everyone who heard it, believe it meant whatever they think it means.
  Always be wary of authoritarians that are given credit for "speaking plainly" but aren't actually saying anything. Being vague and letting the person interpret it however they want us basic grifting. All that matters is you're gaining their confidence.

Don't threaten me with a good time

I understand now!
As a cardinal, he was fine.
But when a cardinal becomes Pope, he dies and also goes woke.
Now, we can remember his name.
His name... Is Robert Prevost.
His name is Robert Prevost!
- His name is Robert Prevost!
  
  His name is Robert Prevost!

Loomer can go eat a bag of small Trump dicks.
- I think she had several servings already.
  
  Bloargh!*

Ugh us Americans from the USA don’t seem to understand how arrogant it is to say he’s the first American pope. Argentina is in South America. This guy is the first North American pope, or better yet the first pope from the United States. This is going to bug the shit out of me.
Edit: Because I’m genuinely loving the downvotes (you really felt it when I called you arrogant, huh), if the next US president was from North Dakota, we wouldn’t say they were the first president from Dakota, would we?
- I fully get the criticism, but US Americans are the only ones that identify, and are broadly known as "Americans," so it just feels pedantic to me.
  
  It’s definitely pedantic, but I’ve had more than one friend from countries in Central and South America comment on it, so it’s not just me noticing.
- And he's the first US-ian Pope because of his birth.
  But his career was in Peru.
- Edit: Because I’m genuinely loving the downvotes
  First off, you had 5 down votes, which makes it obvious you're trolling.
  But for those five it's likely:
  It's because you're trying to use semantics to "dunk" on an entire country, and it's not even original, and still not even right.
  It would be correct to phrase it:
  The first pope from the United States of America
  But pretty much every country has a long name that's shortened down to one identifiable word.
  Its very hard to believe anyone would hear:
  The first American pope
  And genuinely believe that includes anyone born anywhere on the continents of North or South America.
  99.99% of the time, it's someone trying to troll Americans, it's not as clever as you think. And immediately complaining about a handful of downvotes makes it incredibly transparent.
  
  Careful there, hombre. You might find yourself deported for being anti-semantic.
- I mean… I don’t disagree, but no other nation put “America” in their name. “United” and “States” are even more generic. Heck, "United States" isn’t even distinctive.
  “Uni” is already “university”,
  “Statist” is already something else
  Statian / station
  Stater / stator
  Unitian / munition
  “Unitarian” is already something
  Unit 👎
  Unish 👎
  Ustan / Houston
  UnStan, UnStian, UniStan, UniStAm👎
  “Yank(ee)” is almost exclusively derogatory, and a fair chunk of the nation uses it to denigrate a different chunk.
  “Yu-ess-ee-an” is just unbelievably awful
  “Usonian” didn’t take off, but we could give it another go 🤷‍♂️
- Yeah, he's the first Pope from the States, is closer to the phrase that should be used.
  
  What states? There are lots of states in the world.

That bitch is scary as hell
- Have you seen her face? She did that on purpose.

Ha, hardly. He's also anti-LGBTetc and standard issue cover for kiddie diddlers.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-853274
- While that certainly doesn't speak well for him, wouldn't it be more of a surprise at this point if they chose a pope that couldn't be described that way? This is the catholic church we're talking about.
  
  That is precisely why I chose the phrase "standard issue." Anyone who thinks the Catholic Church is going to change in any dramatic way is being foolish.

I wonder what kind of pizza he prefers. It would be funny if chicago pizza caused a schism in the church.
- Just imagining the ruckus that will break out when he calls that “pizza” in Rome 🤣

Wondering how long it will be until some sordid child sex scandal in Chicago is uncovered with him at the head.
- He's the pope, so not long.
- He is at least culpable of inaction, IIRC
- Not sure the guy spent much time in the U.S. he lived in Peru awhile. Likely went to college in Rome. I imagine that unless he did something in the U.S. while very young any of his ties to scandals would be in Peru

Lol, if that’s true, maybe I should convert to Catholicism. Sounds good to me.
It’s funny how much the right hates Christianity, while wearing its clothes and speaking its language.
- Reminds me of this line in the beginning of Kendrick’s song For Sale? (Interlude):
  They say if you scared, go to church
  But remember, he knows the Bible too

You could change like 3 words and this could be a positive cheer from someone on the left.

She lists a bunch of Christian values, then calls them in catholic. Common sense or logic means nothing to these people.
- Why do US neonazis hate Catholics tho? There is also this line in American History X, where Danny says: "I hate anyone that isn't white Protestant." I've always wondered.
  
  Protestants and Catholics, historically, have had a lot of conflict. In the US, Catholicism has been associated strongly with immigrant groups (Irish, Italians, and Latin Americans, primarily), which adds another layer of prejudice.
  
  Dude none of it makes sense

Reminds me of "The Pope isn't Christian" from a similar old social post.

Based and pope pilled

I didn’t see those final paragraphs coming at all. It all sounded great!

why is this breathing plasticine loves to spout some nonsense
im not religious but somewhat aware how politics in catholic church works
before francis died, he managed to assign 80% of new cardinals that could align with him. so eh....?

I hate that she's just out there... Looming..

I like how she says "Catholics" as if unaware of the pope's role in defining and guiding Catholicism.
Like, I'm an idiot, but doesn't he kinda have a hand in saying what and who Catholics are?

If that ankle doesn't like this dude then he is probably okay.

I can't believe the amount of time the right spends painting people as left and the left spends it all painting them as right.

I legitimately thought all those were good things, right up until the end when the poster clearly shows they don't know what Marxism is.