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  • Bonus @lemm.eeEnglish
    261·
    14 hours ago

    He knows his phony baloney base is supposedly Christian, right?

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 hour ago

      This is what they’ll tell you with a straight face.

      Noah was a drunk, King David killed a man so he could have the widow, and King Solomon had thousands of slaves.

      The Lord can choose to work through flawed me; we must look past their character to see the holy spirit within.

      • Bonus @lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        35 minutes ago

        Exactly why, as a small child, I couldn’t understand anyone following this bullshit. They contradict themselves and then expect you to believe.

    • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      11 hours ago

      There’s historically bad blood between Catholics and Protestants in America. All the recent Pope stuff is designed to fan those flames.

      Non Catholics lump the two together but Protestant America is taught young that Catholics are in the same group as Jews, Muslims, and everyone else they hate.

      So this is all dog whistling.

    • 474D@lemmy.world
      152·
      14 hours ago

      He straight up said “I’m not Christian”, they don’t care

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        3 hours ago

        Something something God uses imperfect people, I guess.

        Edit: I mean that’s something I’ve heard of MAGAts saying. Apparently they don’t care because somehow they’re convinced Trump is chosen by capital-G-God an will do God’s will even if he’s sinful as fuck.

        • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          3 hours ago

          It was much too late by then. The Italian fascist movement was on the back foot and had been co-opted by Hitler and the Nazi party.

          The Vatican supported the rise of Fascism in the 20’s and 30s. By 1937, fascism had already risen and everyone was about to start doing world war things in a couple years as a result.

          This is the MO for the church/Vatican, they are never on the side of good out of the gate, but retcon things later to make it appear like they were secretly the good guys somehow.

          History of the church and their decisions is long and bloody. This hasn’t ever changed.

          But the church still tries to gaslight everyone that they’ve been the good guys all along.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    81·
    15 hours ago

    Has anyone asked Trump about it?

    “I didn’t know I could be pope? This is the first time I’m hearing it. I think it’ll get in the way of…well I could be, maybe I will do it. The pope and president at the same time? Wouldn’t that be beautiful? Everyone’s saying it.”

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      6 hours ago

      they did ask him and he said “being pope would be my first choice”, you’ll note how you were unable to even come up with something as nonsensical as what he actually said…

  • phr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    51·
    14 hours ago

    don’t protestant leaders find this disgusting in a different way?

    sorry i forgot, nothing means anything anymore.