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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What’s a progressive catholic?

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t the Catholic Church involved in eradicating native populations in a couple countries too?

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 13 points 10 months ago

The Pope still uses homophobic slurs too. He's the most progressive Pope we've had for a very long time too and he's still talking like uncle Leroy after too many glasses of wine at Thanksgiving.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone who vibes with the basic teachings of Jesus (feed the hungry, clothe the poor, turn the other cheek, etc.) and heavy ritual stuff (cathedrals, stained glass, cannibalism by proxy, etc.) but does not vibe with repressive conservative politics.

They were probably raised Catholic, saw some ick with the Institution, but vibed with Jesus too hard to just write the Faith off. Tbf every progressive probably vibes with Jesus if they read what the guy supposedly said.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s what is done in his name that turns people off.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That'd be the ick. Still a cool dude though, lot on the ball. I'd say progressive Catholics are mostly the ones who assume that if you don't fw the Vatican you don't fw the Christ and don't think about it too much. There's a lotta good people caught up in that mentality.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anything is great if you hand wave the horrible away.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And anything is horrible if you handwaved the great. That's why Buddha took the middle path.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are we talking about Buddhism or Christianity here?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you prove that Christianity isn't the result of some middle eastern Jew learning about Buddhism on the Silk Road and trying to translate it into middle eastern Jew?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then it was co-opted by people who used it as cover for systematic sexual abuse and murder of entire groups of people and is currently being used to attempt to convert entire countries into dystopian theocracies?

That’s one hell of a game of telephone, then.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

2000 years will do that. It's a sad fact that any prestigious positions of power, especially those implicitly ordained by God™, attract narcissistic sociopaths.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A Catholic that doesn’t follow core teachings of the church like anti abortion and gay people go to hell.