I HATE TRADCATHS
I HATE TRADCATHS
One of the very few times I had fun in church was because of that story.
I gave up on christianity at 12, but didn’t have any kind of objection to it for others, and didn’t mind going to church with friends. It’s the south, and pretty much every church had a choir and singing, so it was pleasant enough.
But I went to church with a friend in jr high, a guy that still lives down the road now. But they went to one of those crazy churches with the long names that make no sense. Not the kind of crazy where they drink poison and handle snakes, just the kind of crazy where they jump around and scream a lot.
Anyway, I’m down to try it. We roll in and my friend drags me to the front pew. I was sins dubious, but he was smiling and saying the preacher wae awesome and I didn’t want to miss anything.
He was not wrong lol.
This preacher was indeed impressive. One of those kind of preachers you get where they praise GAAWD, hallelujah and amen! every five minutes or so, just completely batshit but entertaining.
Guy starts talking about the story those images are based on.
He’s red faced and just stalking back and forth across the front of the church like a metal guitarist playing to the back rows.
Dude rips off his tie and starts making knots in it.
He then races along the front row beating the ever living hell out of everyone except me. He goes back and forth, talking about how Jesus threw the money lenders out, and expounding on washing our souls free of greed, all while beating the ever loving fuck out of the front row, only skipping me. This was about five minutes worth.
The dude looked unhinged. Sweating, his shirt opened and starting to pull free of his pants a little, hair sticking out everywhere. And he’s doing it while shouting it all loud enough to echo off the walls. But he never touched me with the tie. Got my friend on my left, and the lady on my right, but not me. Dude knew that I was not a member of the church, and made sure to miss me, no matter how crazy he looked.
That shit was awesome. Like, it cemented my certainty that I would never be christian, and that you couldn’t trust preachers (because his whole act of being ina religious frenzy was an act, if he had been the “hand of the lord” he was acting, he wouldn’t have avoided me). But it was freaking amazing on an entertainment level.
Plus, there was singing and some folks spoke “in tongues” which made it even better.
I was invited back several times, but I knew it would never be that fun again. How can you top that kind of performance?
Everyone with a brain knows that God’s chosen representative on Earth is King Henry VIII.
Who again?
I’m not surprised, I used to live with a super catholic guy who thought the same.
Me, raised Catholic, invited him to split with the Catholic church and become a Protestant each time he would rant.
He was much less amused by the suggestion than I was lmfao
Here in Mexico we have a saying, “más católicos que el Papa” (more Catholic than the Pope), referring to people who are too zealous in their faith and keep judging others.
Funnily we have the exact same thing in german, being ”päpstlicher als der Papst" (more papal than the pope)
I suspect it is a thing in all Catholic cultures.
I say that to my Catholic mom who is not judgemental, but too ascetic. She thinks any feelings of pleasure could lead to sin; shies away from any topic of sex and even mere mention of contraceptives; and she has antiquated abstentionist view that alcohol leads to people doing bad stuff, even though from my own personal experience, people could get drunk and still be polite, but an already insecure or asshole person who is drunk will become an even bigger asshole (because alcohol removes inhibition not morality). I say to my mom that she would be the confirmed first female pope if she had not been married.
Your mother is in a red flag, I will absolutely not do that
My mom isn’t that bad. She is a product of her time and environment, and just didn’t know better.
Jesus turned water into wine for a party where they ran out of booze.
No need for that. Just become more magical than the pope.
We also have that saying in french. At least in Canada
Their credibility is in tatters and their following at record low numbers in the EU. I think it’s no coincidence that they are thinking twice about some of the minorities they have spent history punching down on. A business decision.
That, but you also have to give more credit to Pope Francis being more progressive. But he is stifled by court intrigues. There is persistent word going around that conservative clergies in the Vatican loath him and pondering to oust him if they could. Pope Francis also had a nasty spat with an infamously Trumpist archbishop whom the pope had excommunicated. And last year, another critic of Pope Francis had been [dismissed due to the pope’s more open acceptance to lgbt](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/11/us/pope-francis-joseph-strickland-texas/index. html).
Yes, I know, there was that time when the pope said something stupid about the lgbt not long ago, but I reckon he is playing the balancing act to assuage the convervative Catholics. I am not defending the pope here, but what I am saying is that common folks have a fairy tale notion that a leader’s authority is absolute but it never has nor ever will be. Politicking is alive and well even in the Vatican, and even in a dictatorship. Think about it, if you’re the leader, you are just one person out of hundreds of thousands in a population who outnumber you. You have to appease as much as possible or you would lose your authority and legitimacy. That’s how politics is.
See also: No True
ScotsmanCatholicAn experts’ expertise being criticized by a non-expert who thinks he knows best because he learned a little bit about that expert domain.
Pretty common stuff nowadays, especially in Social Media.
It’s an example of experts occasionally being experts at insane nonsense. None of this is knowledge at all.
there is a lot to know about catholicism… it happened after all. it’s just as much nonsense as the law - it’s all made up scribbles and bullshit
not a catholic, hate religion, but we gotta hate on the right things
There’s been a lot of Catholics who hated whoever was the Pope at the time. It’s almost tradition at this point
So much for infallibility I guess.
Papal infallibility is a formal attribution to statements on matters of faith. IIRC there have only been a handful of formal “infallible” statements by the papacy. Jesus is the son of God, Mary was the immaculate conception, very foundational stuff like that.
Source: recovering Catholic and religious studies minor from many years ago. Take with a lot of sodium.
Isn’t this the kind of shit that would get you defenestrated or something?
Burned at the stake, maybe? Or just excommunicated - which is the direction some of these lunatics are headed. Ostracized from society.
That’s more of a Russia thing.
They probably mean he never molested anyone, like a true catholic
Somebody needs to look at the true history of Christianity and accept that John had the hots for Jesus.
Ooh, spicy
I would argue that it’s possible to have a Pope who isn’t a true Catholic. I mean, look at some of the Renaissance popes…
Wild but there are quite a few out there who don’t believe he is the real pope…
A main scholar of such is Mel Gibson’s dad.
The literal definition of “not real Catholics”
You don’t believe in the same fiction as me!
I assume there’s always a group of them for all popes or am I incorrect? Mean not necessarily the same people but someone must not like whichever one is current enough to form a group in the past.
Online these days it’s like fishing in a barrel to find someone with your weird ideas so no digging needed there.
This post pretty much sums up social media.
