• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    2 hours ago

    This comment proves the church’s PR experiment worked. The lies worked. He wasn’t progressive, he was a hard conservative, homophonic, misogynist who defended pedos and spewed hollow platitudes while sitting on a trillion dollars. But the church put him in place and threw a huge propaganda machine behind him and you bought it

    Edit: to the pedo lovers in this thread who are gonna miss king pedo

    https://youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c

    • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      4 hours ago

      Did you even see the earlier Popes? He did everything you say and yet this guy was liberal by every definition compared to the guy he replaced. Benedict was nasty and he knew it.

      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        He said a lot. Did the opposite and continued the church’s status quo, you’re a fool if you think his pro lgbt talk was sincere, actions speak louder than words

    • TheRealKuni@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      6 hours ago

      homophonic

      I think he was the first Pope Francis. But even if he were the second, that wouldn’t make him a homophone.

      I guess all popes are homophonic in some languages, like in Spanish “la papa” is potato and “el papa” is pope.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      6 hours ago

      This comment proves the church’s PR experiment worked.

      Conspiracy theorists are so weird… Like do you imagine a smokey room with the pope and a group of cardinals talking about how they want to represent the church in a completely opposite way to how they want it to be? Or is there a “shadow church” that controls it all and the pope is unaware?

      Which marvel movie best reflects the situation do you think?

      • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        6 hours ago

        I mean, the Catholic Church is a political organization that has global reach, I don’t think it’s a wild conspiracy that they carefully consider their appearance.

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          46 minutes ago

          This comment proves the church’s PR experiment worked. The lies worked. He wasn’t progressive, he was a hard conservative,

          This phrase, right here, sounds like it came from a conspiracy theorist. Because that’s exactly how conspiracy theorists rationalize things. Anything that counters my belief is “lies” and it’s just a “PR experiment”. It can’t possibly be that the pope is, like most people, complex with varied beliefs and potentially even contradictory beliefs.

          No. It’s “lies from a PR department”. 🙄