Popes Francis’ #Beatitudes papacy makes him one of the most important #antifa politicians of our era because,

[franceskamann@freeradical.zone]

@blogdiva

Pope Francis ️️️️

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@blogdiva
ooh how i&i can relate, and do indeed!

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@blogdiva I am really curious about how we see things differently, because of our backgrounds.

Like, I am from Poland, which in my childhood/teenage era was a predominantly catholic country. However, due to involvement of catholic church - especially after selecting JPII as a pope - to get rid of Soviet umbrella, there was a continuous flirtation between the throne and the altar. With church-aligned people having more and more influence on the affairs of the state. Which is the problem we bear to this day.

I had my spiritual experience there. I guess you could call me back then a born again Christian. I had - for a brief moment - a sense of community, a sense of belonging. But I have seen how the teaching of the priest warps the biblical teaching of Jesus. I also have been working for a few years for a church non-profit, which was important enough, that my bosses had a personal audience with the pope back then. So, I had one handshake to both, JPII, then BXVI (back then, a cardinal).

And all of that has left me dry. And it has left me dry even more when the years has passed, I've discovered I am more and more queer, and the church has become one of the harbingers of hate against me.

And I am talking just about the things which has directly affected me. Because if I recall all of the misdeeds of the church from a recent century or two, it will make things even worse.

So, right now, when I see the pope doing proper things, I am like: "yeah, you are, finally, calling openly for doing good deeds, but I have exactly zero reasons to trust your motives". And that's addressed to former popes as well.

Nonetheless, the church in Poland - and I remind, the catholic church is a hierarchical organisation, with clearly established chain of command - still is a harbinger of hate, and is bedding right wingers. Because it's far beyond the flirting phase.

I will look with the interest on the current development, but I am not going to hold my breath.

FWIW, even if I am formally still a member of the catholic church, I have never went through apostasy path, I am certainly considered a heretic, as I refuse to accept Paul, and his teaching, as a part of my believes. I consider him as a false prophet, and the fruits of his teaching we are collecting to this day. Which for me, right now, has only the intellectual meaning.

My spiritual life is not existing (please mind, this is a statement of a fact, not a complaint), and if I would ever want to change that, I would rather search for a local witch coven.

[emma@orbital.horse]

@blogdiva but the gender-essentialist fuckery is still there and is one of the root causes of fascist ideology.

[voxofgod@fuckaas.space]

@blogdiva did u see the thing about zionist police stopping Catholics from CELEBRATING MASS in Jerusalem today?

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

go find what i have posted on Pope Francis and his transgender posse. it’s why i chose the word DEVELOPMENT.

again, AM AN ATHEIST; but because there was a time i wanted to be a nun, i feel equipped to see them for what they are without having to justify their theology. after all, there are 2 billion catholics out there, affecting my life on a daily basis whether i believe or not.

so whatever Da Pope does to change the RCC & rebuke capitalists, doomers & sundry fascism, am here for it

@emma

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@Kerplunk
I suspect his support is extremely high among American evangelicals. No idea how Catholics voted.
@blogdiva

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@Voxofgod not surprised. Palestinian christians are real and they’ve bombed churches and committed genocide against them.

do you have a link?

[mothninja@beige.party]

@blogdiva 'supply-side Jesus' is a _fantastic_ phrase, thank you

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@Kerplunk
Polling in late summer suggests a much greater majority of evangelicals supported him. A majority of Catholics did, but not by much and driven highly by whites.

In all areas, the problem is whites.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/09/white-protestants-and-catholics-support-trump-but-voters-in-other-us-religious-groups-prefer-harris/
@blogdiva

[emma@orbital.horse]

@blogdiva I'm glad Pope Leo and his predecessor have been pushing for justice for the poor and dispossessed, but I'm not going to refrain from asking for justice for trans people.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

don't know how to respond to this other than, as a “Vatican II atheist” am equipped to report on the nuances of catholicism as opposed to the many closeted fascists posing as enlightened atheists. and i studied Catholic politics as part of my PhD work.

there are 2 billion CATHOLICS, affecting our lives daily. here in USA six of them sit on the fascist MAGA-aligned Supreme Court.

so when i write about Catholcism, i do so my readers can understand the good & bad am seeing

@agturcz

[catawu@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva I saw the Rat for what he was when he was on the steps approaching the conclave. There was an evil darkness to his countenance, and he was salivating as if he knew it was a done deal. I was shocked he was ever a bishop and more shocked that he was elected. I figured it was blackmail and extortion all around. I for one, happy when he ‘retired’.

[msbellows@c.im]

@juergen_hubert @blogdiva +1. You can't separate MLK's work from his faith, or Gandhi's, or Malcolm X's, or Jimmy Carter's. The problem is that some humans take good things and misuse them, whether that's family or faith or work or sex or any other good.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

go find what i wrote about Bergolio’s efforts.

@emma

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

❝ In all areas, the problem is whites. ❞

which is why it’s funnier that Pope Southside is like my Thing2, a white-passing, icognegro of AfroCarib ascendancy

@eldersea @Kerplunk

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@blogdiva I'm sorry if I explained something you may know better than me.

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@mothninja @blogdiva Welcome to the world of Supply-Side Jesus. https://imgur.com/gallery/gospel-of-supply-side-jesus-bCqRp

[mothninja@beige.party]

@mayintoronto brilliant, thank you for the link!

@blogdiva

[msbellows@c.im]

@InkySchwartz @blogdiva
"The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered 'weak' now."

Um... that's been happening since at least the 1980s, but yeah, evangelical Christianity today absolutely would be condemned by the actual Jesus along with the Pharisees and Saducees. The Beatitudes are nothing if not woke.