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[–] 11 points 1 week ago (16 children)

If God existed, I doubt he goes around with a magic cancer wand. That being said, Pope Leo isn't a good person, he just has a good media team.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Pope Leo isn't a good person

    Why do you say that?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    He doesn't support women in the ministry, vilified the LGBTQ community and most importantly, protected pedo priests.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    He doesn't support women in the ministry

    That's not entirely true. While he doesn't support women in the priesthood or as bishops (as set in Catholic dogma), he has placed women in high administrative positions within the Vatican, which is something other popes haven't done.

    vilified the LGBTQ community

    Also not true. He's pushed a policy of welcoming all people, and while it's true he doesn't support gay marriage, that is again due to established Catholic dogma and has been much more progressive than previous popes.

    protected pedo priests.

    I can't say whether or not that's true, I can't find any instances of him protecting pedo priests.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    He doesn't support women in the ministry

    Admin positions aren't the Ministry

    vilified the LGBTQ comm

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq

    protected pedo priests.

    https://snapnetwork.org/2025/12/08/pope-leo-helped-shield-clergy-accused-of-abuse-in-peru-abuse-survivors-allege/

    There's another case in Chicago if I recall correctly

    In any case, being gay is still considered a sin and he was at a pedo priests birthday party 3 years ago. He's being told to pander by his media team, but absolutely nothing has changed and he's more than likely a hateful power hungry horrorshow. He's at a minimum worst than Francis (not saying much, every Pope is a low bar)

    The whole org is a fucking shit show, I can't believe people are actually buying this stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I mean... would he have even been allowed to be the Pope if he didn't do those things? (let's not pretend the Pope is actually a divine appointment)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    I'd argue striving to be head of one of the most hateful orgs automatically makes you bad person. Protecting pedos comes with the territory but doesn't give him a pass so to speak.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    What I mean is, the people who decide who is pope were never going to allow someone the title who would fight back against those topics.

    It doesn't matter how good or bad he is.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    And my point is he is a bad person, maybe the best we could hope for but still a bad person.

    I never said I expected better, just that the media lays it on thick and that it's laughable all the rubes that praise a guy who shrouds himself in homophobia and trans hate, and who protects pedophiles.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    What constitutes a "good" person?

    I'd argue with how pathetically shitty the average person is, that Leo is, in fact, a good person, whether or not you believe in any sort of divine guidance.

    Hell, he doesn't even have to be a good Christian (by teachings, not Christian acts) to never the less end up on the 'good' half of humanity!

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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    That's ... rather abstract. Besides, hating trans people is (sadly) still not a guarantee to find yourself on the 'bad' 50% of humanity. ... and that's assuming that only 50% of humanity is bad, which is rather forgiving!

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  • [–] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    Well he hates AI too, because it threatens the confession booth. And trans people hate AI girlfriends because they demonstrate that love was never gated by an expensive operation; while Hinton, the father of backprop, considers AI conscious already. So there's that. In general the more someone thinks they're the Good Guys, the more they're the Bad Guys. Now watch Lemmy turn into a mental pretzel to justify their own hatred of AI while missing the parallel with the cotton plantations wherein black people were also treated as unconscious and inferior. I'll see myself out before my inbox fills with comments calling me a loser for siding with Turing.

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