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“Eat a dick” responded America, as they drove their gelatinous little tax-breaks to catecism so they could learn how to better hate the colored couple at the end of the street.
That’s rather pointed as there is only one first world country that does not have universal healthcare.
Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it’s not really universal.
From experience in Australia: dental isn’t included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it’s not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for “elective” surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.
What’s worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then… (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it’s a fucking stupid system)
List goes on.
It’s WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.
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Conservatives: He thinks darkies and wage slaves should have universal health care! Hes the antichrist!!!
Peter Thiel: I know. 😈
Trump will invade Vatican City.
This is not the kind of Popeing he paid for.
You hate to see pedophile-on-pedophile violence like this.
Hooray, he fixed America!
africa(not south africa) and asia have lack of BASIC access healthcare so theres that. USA have at least that, if you get sick/injured you get sent to the ER, its just the extreme cost. africa and asia doesnt have those.
American Christians: “Oh my god! The pope is a commie socialist woke antifa!”
Many Christians: “Oh my god! This Jesus was a commie socialist woke antifa!”
For many christians, “christianity” is a social club they strongly belong to, not an actual religion. They don’t give a fuck about what the bible is actually trying to convey, they just use the bible as a tackboard to pin their own beliefs and desires onto.
You described almost every religion ever.
Religion is a mental disorder. Prove me wrong. (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
Life satisfaction of the mentally unstable is a curious measure to go by. Everybody knows being totally fine in an unhealthy world is a sign of mental disorder itself…
“You should be nice to people”
How does this need proof? Something like Buddhism isn’t saying “this is how the world is” more like “these attitudes might be helpful to you” - there is nothing there to prove.
Of course if you think that a gigantic sky daddy wants you to invade a country because the man on TV said so, then perhaps you should reassess some things.Buddhism isn’t a religion as there is no deity to worship. Isn’t it more a philosophy?
Yeah, its a sliding scale. I suppose tax status is a simple line to differentiate between a philosophy & religion.
That only exists in the USA for what I know and would be a terrible way to decide theological or philosophical questions lol!
“You should be nice to people” How does this need proof?
Doesn’t need a god either, or thousands of mutually incompatible made-up backstories.
Exactly. and the vast majority of how ‘religion’ is used today is …
Vast majority? Christianity and Islam combined make up about 66% of the religious population. Which other religions have a sizeable amount of people and conduct crusades?
I hate to break it to you, but those 66% are conducting crusades… Just look at all the fucking brainless Christogooners celebrating the war on Iran…
No, not all Christians/Islamists are bad, but their religions are.
Yesterday I would have said intermittent fasting.
Today? IDK probably getting their internal monologues to shut the fuck up for a bit.Silencing the inner monologue over the most bsnal explanations and/or wishful thinking ever is … a mental disorder.
There is much wrong with the world. To pretend otherwise is at best denial.
In order to answer the challenge, I suppose the first question would be ‘what constitutes a religion?’ If you’re simply talking about a group of people who share a passionately held belief that tries to get others to conform to that belief through emotional manipulation, intimidation and peer pressure, well…you’re pretty much talking about the entire human race.
Yes, the entire human race is contemptible. I’m glad we could arrive at this conclusion.
Heh…not sure why such a conclusion would make you glad, but if there’s one thing that’s universally true of the human race, it’s that people will do amazing things - amazingly awesome things, and amazingly terrible things. I guess the trick is to try to do more of the awesome stuff as much as we can… shrug
That’s not how science works. Prove your hypothesis right with actual studies.
Religion is one of human basic mental needs, unfortunately. Oh, prove me wrong. (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
Aren’t the least religious countries on Earth generally the happiest ones?
The least religious countries are those without a strong central organized religion. The people there are still mostly religious, just on an individual level - I live in one of those, I can see it all around.
I live in one of those, I can see it all around.
Prove it (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
Religion is one of human basic mental needs, unfortunately. Oh, prove me wrong. (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
How about you prove yourself right before demanding that others need to?
Fun fact, only yesterday I’ve heard in the radio about a new study about youth anxiety and their conclusion was that a sense of togetherness is what reduces anxiety and while religious communities provide that, they are not the sole provider of that sense and other communities may as well. Also “people need community” is not the same as “people need religion”, so your ridiculous claim better be not backed up by anything that confuses these two.
Religion is just ceremony and doctrine surrounding belief.
A bit like having cake and a party, because you believe the earth completing a lap of the sun dated from the day of your birth is worth celebrating. Or having someone arrested and taken to court and sent to prison for stealing from you, because you and many others in society believe in concepts like personal property, and justice, and morality. You know, all those things you believe in that definitely exist, even though you’ve never seen a photo of morality, or seen a scientific study proving that justice exists. But they must do because old books say so, and so do your peers, and anyway our whole society would fall apart if people stopped believing in them.
Humans, simply put, are weird. We’re a species composed of mental disorders unique to us and nothing else in nature. To single out religion as being especially weird and worthy of contempt is… well… a bit weird and worthy of contempt, IMO
Religion is just ceremony and doctrine surrounding belief.
A bit like having cake and a party, because you believe the earth completing a lap of the sun dated from the day of your birth is worth celebrating.
Cakes, parties, planets, the Sun, rotation, years, are all real. Your gods aren’t.
Bread, wine, communion, annual religious festivities are also all real. Gods may not be real, but neither are a lot of human concepts. Good, evil, justice, aesthetics, mathematics, class, debt, trust, freedom… any number of things we believe exist but do not have any physical presence in the universe, no proof outside of human inference and intuition (and the occasional bit of paperwork) that they exist. They all, however, have their uses, and their effects are made manifest by our actions, for good and ill.
“Those who dance are thought insane by those who cannot hear the music”
Yea go ahead and get back to me when a birthday party involves killing someone and celebrating it.
So celebrating murder is the benchmark for insanity? Public executions used to draw big crowds, nothing to do with religion. Armies still give ceremonial medals for particularly inventive or brave killing, again, nothing to do with religion. Luigi Mangelone is celebrated by many for murder… admittedly the murder of a corporate ‘hands off’ serial killer, but still - its celebrating murder.
Again, I say, people are strange enough already - religion is barely even the icing on the cake.
Yea people are crazy, so why would you defend something that makes them even less attached to reality??
No they’re not!
(Source: my feelings)
Among evangelical hardliners it’s not an uncommon belief that the Pope is the Anti Christ, so…
what a coincidence as peter thiel is coming to europe tour to give talks on the ANTI-CHRIST.
while evangelical ignoring someone like THIEL who is obsessed with the anti-christ.
I mean, every single time they have assumed the Pope is the Antichrist in the last 50 years they’ve been wrong, so surely this time.
A stopped clock is right twice a day!
Hell Catholics weren’t considered white for a long time
They certainly faced discrimination but I don’t think it was a factor in race
I think it’s a hyperbole and it works.
Yes, only their guy who pretend to talk to/for God is the guy I listen to unconditionally. Certainly not the head church guy, obviously he’s a hack.
Can enough irony actually cause a quantum singularity?
We could only be so lucky
I suspect you think you’re being satirical but as an American myself, I can guarantee there’s a significant amount of Americana saying exactly this.
Sorry Pope your follows say you are wrong lol
Not all of them. But far too many of them for sure.
Everyone should just die of diseases in the street. Hysterical!
protestants, including evangelicals, are not catholics and do not follow the pope
According to a 2024 Gallup survey, approximately 69% of the U.S. population—about 235 million out of 340 million people—identify as Christian.[1] A plurality of Americans identify as Protestant (45%), followed by Catholics (22%). Smaller Christian groups include members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1.5%), Eastern Orthodox Christians (0.5%), and other Christian denominations (0.4%).[1]
Sorry Pope, there’s no money in that. Signed - insurance companies and Donald j Trump (because he likes his name in everything)
Except the Epstein files…
Something tells me he’s not embarrassed about that. He just hates it’s not his narrative.
The old “Do as we say, not as we do” gambit.
Vatican doesn’t have public health care?
In Rome like half of the hospitals were ran by the church before they got privatized with neoliberalism
Interesting thought. If tithing to the catholic church paid for my healthcare, I’d consider signing up.
As an American, he would be familiar with the consequences of not having it.
No can do. Gotta bomb brown people to protect pedophiles.
“Oh that’s it, he’s going to Hell for sure!” -MAGA
My favorite thing is when rich people pretend to support things because they know, unequivocally, they’ll never actually be held accountable for making them happen or their hypocrisy in living unimaginably luxurious lifestyles.
Like this asshole
One of the most Christian things I’ve heard from a pope in quite a long time
Nice. He understands there’s a better way than praying and small time charity work. Now if he can just convince his flock…
