• SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Fuck em both. The pope wields immense wealth and power, get to fixing things, anything - Housing, food, education, healthcare, environment - pick a topic and go.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      I honestly don’t think the pope has that kind of power. I’m pretty sure it’s a facade. Think of all the times their actions have been so minimal in any direction while their words swing one way or the other.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        he’s the head of the a religion so powerful that it is it’s own nation state, with 1.4 billion followers. They have 78 billion-ish that we know if, in net worth.

        he calls practically any other head of state, they pick up the phone. They may not do what he asks, but they still pick up the phone.

        an organization so powerful that they shaped the colonization and conquest of the New World to include missions, with the goal and aim of genocide natives; or forcing them to convert.

        The pope ain’t powerless, and he’s almost certainly the most powerful religious leader in the world.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        2 months ago

        That’s what people said about the US president, until some fat golfer came around and just did what he wanted.