• Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    the cleric blamed mass media for fostering so much “sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyles choices” that “when people hear the Christian message it often inevitably seems ideological and emotionally cruel

    Imagine being at that revelation, then saying to yourself ‘no, my interpretation of skydaddy is correct’

    • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      In my 39 years of life, I have literally never seen an example of christians in positions of power that weren’t dogmatic assholes. I was born into a country run by christian nationalist bigots that used the bible to justify their apartheid. I grew up knowing people who were just as ‘christian’ as they were racist and homophobic. The catholic church has had a pedo problem since before I was born. The boarding school I went to was run by reborn christian hypocrites that were some of the nastiest people that I’ve ever met. And now look at what the christians are doing in the USA.

      So I’m sorry, pope. It wasn’t gay people that drove me away from the “christian message”. It was christians that drove me away from it.