• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Say what you want about the pope. but he took the time recently to write an extra special Fuck You In Particular to JD Vance. (or at least, told some one to do it, I presume.)

    Still not someone I’m going to regret passing, but, eh, I can respect that act, at least.

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    22 days ago

    I get the point, but Catholics aren’t typically anti-medicine (some are, but it isn’t dogma.) They celebrate unexpected recoveries, but we all do.

    Catholicism sucks, but not for being anti-medicine.

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      22 days ago

      They’re neutral at best, or at least, being anti health care isn’t a dealbreaker- they canonized mother Teresa.

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            15 days ago

            there’s just so much there

            The highlight: one of her core beliefs seems to have been that her patients didn’t actually need medical care, rather, that they only needed to feel wanted by god, and to die in peace. when criticized in places like the Lancet she responded:

            There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering.

            but then, turned around and sought medical care for her own ailments (severe heart conditions.) in modern American hospitals.

            So she’s a typical example of the hypocrisy of the christian faith.

            Oh, and her “Miracles” were faked.