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MAGA melts down over ‘WOKE MARXIST POPE’ who is a ‘Never Trumper liberal’
(www.independent.co.uk)
The pope doesn't like evil? Huh, imagine that.
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I knew it-- just KNEW IT-- the moment we learned the new Pope was American, I knew the MAGAt moron brigade would immediately be expecting the guy to be some gob-slobbering jackass racist like them, expecting him to start licking drumpf's toes.
The fact the Pope isn't going to be ordered around by King Damp Pants is going to be a talking point for Faux "news" Entertainment for a while lol
I love how they lost their shit about an American speaking Italian, in Italy, to a shit load of Italians.
The American nationalism has truly rotted their brains.
Woke Marxist Pope? Well shit, I just might start going to church again
Same here lol
I just want to add. Anyone that ACTUALLY FOLLOWS the teachings of the bible, cannot with good conscious support Donald Trump.
I would be surprised if there are more than a couple hundred people in the US who have ever actually read the bible.
Most people don't read the entire bible and churches try to avoid it by doing "bible study" where they cherry pick sections that sound good. They avoid the bits about god allowing owning slaves, god telling his people to kill everyone in the area but keep the virgin young girls as rape slaves, and all the other juicy bits in the bible.
It's a horrible book and the god character is a monster.
That's just silly. Many millions likely have. But I get your point.
MAGA hating the new pope is the biggest compliment he could possibly get
Yep I'd be crying with joy if I were him
Are we talking about the one that died or his new replacement?
Edit: its about the new Pope (Pope Leo) not the old pope (pope Francis). Apparently the dead progressive pope was replaced with another progressive pope. Cool
Well, Francis had as many good takes as bad takes. Some people described him as "strategically trying to piss off as many people as possible."
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Old pope appointed the bishops who appointed new pope so liberal was pretty much guaranteed. The American thing was a surprise.
The last one was American too tho
Wasn't he Argentinian?
Yes.
So then he was SOUTH American.
And the new one is NORTH American.
People using "American" to refer to anyone from the western continent (from a euro centric perspective) is conventional in some parts or the world. It's not the convention in Canada, we bristle at the thought of being labeled Americans.
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Yes, but not US of American.
Maybe the church knows better than to have a concordat with the nazis this time.
Maybe.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. There are still a large number of unpunished child raping fuckers under their protection.
As I told my mother and father yesterday, I firmly believe that under the Trump regime that if for any reason this new Pope comes to America that he'll either be captured and tortured before being killed or just straight up killed for being a traitor.
GOOD! that means he was the right choice...
This article basically just gives a platform to right wing nutjons and their conspiracy theories
Why isn't there a single quote from Pope Leo XIV?
I'm not catholic anymore but I'm getting real sick of people who converted because they like the vibes the religion had in the fucking 1500s.
is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist
Wtf I love the pope now!
They're making him sound way cooler than he actually is
I imagine he’s still against birth control, gay marriage, women priests, etc. He’s pretty conservative.
That said, he’s for not treating others like total shit, even people you don’t know. Also he spoke in Italian, instead of English, while giving his first speech in Italy to a crowd dominated by Italians. So MAGA hates him.
Thank you, Jesus.
MAGA needs to learn new words. Radical leftist marxist communists (which are all contradictory things) is pretty fucking stupid.
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