After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don’t even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.
It’s the old chestnut of leftists being unable to grade on a curve.
Besides the genuine grief of genuine believers losing a religious leader a lot of the commotion is mostly nervousness about whether the next guy is going to be worse in the ways the previous guy was worse.
I mean, for the sake of an analogy and not speaking directly of the dead let’s give this last pope a fictious name, like Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., and let’s assume the potential successors are, let’s say a Donald John Trump and a Kamala Devi Harris. In this entirely fictitious scenario you may disagree with all of them on principle, since they’re all in the same spectrum of “people who even have a shot at being Pope”, but you DEFINITELY should have a very clear preference for the least bad option here.
Am I being too subtle? Tell me if I’m being too subtle.