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'Divine trolling': Pope schedules Chicago mass on the same day as Trump's military parade
(www.alternet.org)
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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If he wasn’t a sexist and a homophobe I’d actually like that guy. But Catholics have a long history of misrepresenting scripture to suit their political purposes, and centuries of bad habits are hard to break.
The scriptures themselves are misogynistic and homophobic. The religion is rotten.
Judeo-Christian scriptures are many things, including misogynistic (women are literally considered property), but they are not, and never have been, homophobic. Not defending them, just pointing out one of those fun facts that gets overlooked because people accept what they’re told - including in the form of compromised translations - without ever raising a finger to confirm if it’s accurate. They want to believe it, so they do.
The pope is catholic. The catholic bible is definately homophobic. It has multiple references to a man lying with a man, and man treating a man as a woman.
It talks about incestuously raping your male slaves (but female slaves are fine if you follow some extra rules), about raping children, and about temple prostitution. None of those things concern homosexuality, particularly monogamous, consensual, not-of-the-same-household same-sex relationships.
The catholic church has twisted those things into something completely different than what they say. But we have those texts in their original languages and they are pretty darn clear. I’m amazed the church has gotten away with it for so long… but then they do have a policy of “what the church says is as good as scripture” so…
The mental gymnastics you people will go through to avoid facing reality... Sad.
You people?
Yes, you people. Ignorant Christian morons insisting that everyone lives according to a bronze age sex manual.
I’m an atheist. I’m not engaging in apologetics, I’m pointing out that Christians don’t know their own source material and their behavior and beliefs directly conflict with the texts they claim are the source of those beliefs.
Oh wow you got me! Good trap 🙄
I wasn’t trying to lay any traps. I thought my position was clear. Still, I really cant fault you for your anger.
That said, I find coming out swinging rarely works in ones favor. Check out Alex O’Connor on YouTube. He has lots of great material on how to deal with religious folks.