cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/16386891
Israeli officials fear the pope’s vocal criticisms and symbolic gestures - such as this year’s nativity scene in St Peter’s Square featuring baby Jesus resting on a Palestinian keffiyeh - may influence global public opinion.
Created by Bethlehem artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, the nativity scene prominently features Palestinian materials, including olive wood, a symbol of Palestinian resilience.
During its unveiling, Pope Francis condemned the global arms industry for profiting from human suffering and reiterated his call for an end to all wars, urging the faithful to remember those suffering in the holy land.
The display, praised by many as a message of solidarity and peace, drew backlash from Israel’s supporters, who accused the Vatican of promoting a pro-Palestinian agenda.
So apparently being Catholic is on the ever-growing list of things considered Anti-Semetic, almost as bad as being outraged at child murder.
Well I mean what was the Vatican up to in the 40’s?
Probably touching them idk
To be fair Hitler DID try to ban Catholocism… Course he was intentionally dragging his feet because… italywassortausefultogermanyatthetime… runs off
Word in the locker room says Israel might counter the Vatican’s child-murder accusations with some altar-boy-boning whataboutism. We’ll find out after the halftime break, Cotton.
Ooh the rape vs murder debate is upom us.
Lets find out who the good guys are!
During its unveiling, Pope Francis condemned the global arms industry for profiting from human suffering and reiterated his call for an end to all wars, urging the faithful to remember those suffering in the holy land.
Keep on going a bit further…
There’s a good way to prevent industries from profiting on human suffering
So they stand for their beliefs … on a pile of dead children.
Message recieved.
Look it’s the children’s fault for being Israeli. Mass murder is the only reasonable cause of action.
Why doesn’t everyone get it?
Israeli?
must be opposite day
People are dying on both sides. It isn’t just one side like some of the media makes it out to be. Killing children is wrong always.
44000 Palestinians dead, 1700 Israelis
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel–Hamas_war
You must be actually retarded if you think this is a “war” and not a slaughter. 17000 children btw
You realise there’s a lot more on one side, right? Like, a LOT more?
Killing more children is more wrong. Israel is the one in control of the situation. Israel is the one who has the power to choose peace. if Israel stopped oppressing Palestinians, Palestinians would stop joining Hamas.
I mean, after the Palestinians being genocided, I suspect Israel has created whole new ‘Hamases’ for generations to come. It’s almost as if they wanted to perpetuate violence… Huh.
Ding ding ding! Netanyahu funneled money into Hamas to destabilize Gaza. Israel loves Hamas.
Israel’s foreign ministry summoned the Vatican’s ambassador, Archbishop Adolfo
Lol, you can’t make that shit up.
Reality being unrealistic again
The hitlerios keep on comin.
Finally the Jews are blaming the Catholics for something.
If saying that killing children is a bad thing causes you to “lash out” them maybe you’re a piece of shit?
What if the kid was slightly annoying at the table next to me in a restaurant for like three minutes?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7C_bW8bBmg
AI music, but the lyrics are at least not AI and it’s pretty much spoken word.
Well, all sin can be forgiven with enough faith and penance, so…
It’s Apartheid South Africa all over again. They’ve got an unlimited license to be pieces of shit because they’ve got a bunch of incredibly wealthy, racist friends willing to prop them up indefinitely.
Indefinitely until their imaginary friend comes back down from the sky…so, forever.
The whole end times thing is too idiotic, and honestly controversial even among people who believe in such things, to be able to explain it in depth. The key element here is that Evangelicals equate the modern nation-state of Israel with the Israelites from the Bible, despite them having basically nothing to do with one another. They will gleefully defend any and all evil perpetrated by said nation-state of Israel as “acceptable”, despite the heaping mountain of condemnation for such evil throughout the Bible itself.
Funny you should mention that, found out recently that the Republicans are actually trying to bring this about the actual apocalypse. Like, they really believe this.
Couldn’t find the original source, but it’s been reported a few places: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/truth-many-evangelical-christians-support-israel-rcna121481
Can’t believe I’m siding with the fucking pope
This particular pope has been a huge improvement.
Yeah looks like this one is only touching statues of little kids
I tend to agree.
I have beef with the whole thing, but he has genuinely been more forward with compassion and trying to curb the worst aspects of it all.
This particular pope has been an improvement.
This particular pope has been an improvement.
This particular pope is a hasbeen.
yes.
What about siding with a friend?
Is this a pop culture reference, common saying or something else?
Yes 😄
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
Unless it’s a digital clock. Th n it’s just dead.
Modern clocks have developed the ability to be wrong all the time. Innovation at its best.
“you’re supposed to touch them not kill them”
- Catholic Church
The Catholic Church had done a lot of both.
Here we go again, Christian kingdoms unite, we are taking another trip to the Holy Land.
Can… Can we wreak Istanbul on our way there again? Just out of tradition.
How can I say no to those beautiful eyes…
So, so much irony all around here.
The head of a genocidal state is mad at the head of the world’s foremost child rape syndicate, a rape syndicate with a long and storied history of orchestrating genocide itself.
And because one of them deigned to say that, maybe, mass murder of kids is bad for the brand.
Peak human species nonsense.
tbf the pope isn’t guilty in the same way as satanyahu is
Yeah but that’s like replacing the CEO with someone who hasn’t committed a crime, and then claiming the company doesn’t deserve to be fined for the the crimes committed under the previous CEO.
Organizations are more than just the one person.
I never said the church shouldn’t be fined, I said we can’t blame the pope for it
Im not gonna throw shade at someone for denouncing genocide.
It kinda hits harder coming from someone more shady, TBH. Like, “we know we’ve done some shit, but you guys are actually fucked”
One of the most infuriating things about humans is their tendency to shit on good things from bad people.
Yes, we all KNOW that person is bad. But if you scold them for doing GOOD things, you are actively discouraging them from being better!
You see, there’s way too much people believing in sky daddies and a huge portion of them thinks this ridiculous rich old man is connected to their god.
So no, definitely “we all know” is not true. As long as their fucking cult exists, I’m not gonna cheer them on when they’re accidentally right. I don’t want them to get better, I want them to be dissolved (as in the religion, not the people specifically).
In the same way I’m not gonna say how great it is that Hitler was in power because we got some sweet animal abuse laws thanks to him. Or cheer on how Mengele contributed to our modern medicine. When you’re a horrible piece of shit, it doesn’t matter how many times you’re right.
That’s a really hot take; comparing Hitler to The Pope. At least, the current pope.
I’ve seen hotter. No matter how you slice it the Pope is the head of an organization that systematically covered up child abuse for decades, probably centuries.
What’s so hot about it? You think the catholic church is not comparable in the atrocities they committed? Note that they’ve been doing it for quite a bit longer.
Right? Wevre not going to overthrow the catholic institution anytime soon so take a fucking positive moment when we can get them. Absolutionism doesn’t make progress.
I think the point is that we must remember that the enemy of our enemy is in fact not our friend. We may agree that murdering kids is wrong, but we have different motivations for wanting them to remain alive…
The Pope is Hamas /s
Come on pope, they aren’t children, they are animals. Israel has been very clear on that point.
I infer that Israel is killing puppies
Username checks out… I hope.
It’s not like Israelis are his target audience…
Let them fight
