• _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Don’t get your hopes up. The last pope was very progressive, and caused a lot of controversy in the church. Most of his possible replacements aren’t anywhere near as progressive as he was.

    It’s very likely the controversy he started will cause an over correction in the other direction and we’ll get one of the super conservative popes that a lot of christians are clamoring for.

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    2 days ago

    It seems to me that the influence of the head of a religious minority on the political and economic decisions of the free world is grossly overestimated.

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      2 days ago

      We need every reasonably large group on board, so Catholic support for doing the right thing is something I’ll welcome.

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      2 days ago

      Are you calling Catholicism a “religious minority” lmao. Tell me you are USian without telling me you are USian.

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        2 days ago

        Sorry for having mistold you, but I’m German. Last year, our proportion of Catholics was 23.7% - and less than 50% of the population are of any Christian confession anymore.

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          So the impact of Chinese climate policy is also vastly overestimated because the Chinese are a small minority of earths people?

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          2 days ago

          Very american of you to think your country represents the other 6 billion humans too.

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            There are roughly 1.3 billion Catholics around the world. I hope you understand that 1.3 is less than 50% of 6.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I’m expecting the worst. Just to be safe. Nothing has gone right since Harambe died.

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    2 days ago

    Yeah, I got it. You’re using “minority” for “people I don’t like”. My bad.