#catholic shit

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

okay but I have so many follow up questions about an american pope

like can he vote in elections. he's still an american citizen. his vote would count the same (or less than) the average person's (less being bc he's from chicago and thanks to the electoral college illinois ppl count less per vote than say wyomingians)

and sure he's the head of a large organization but it's better characterized as a business than a country, most of its power lies outside of its geographical realm and there isn't a real self sustaining population

and we let other ceo's vote

so what. does the pope get to vote now. will the pope tell people who he voted for. does he have to send in an absentee ballot from the vatican. will the ballot counter who receives the ballot realize its the pope's ballot

yes all of this assumes we'll still have elections, shhh

[testudoaubrei-blog]

Ash Wednesday and Valentines Day are the same day this year and the TLT fandom should probably do something about this. Harrowhark would want it this way.

[schwazombie]

Y'all this is the third time in my life they've had to choose a new pope

[j-femmescoli]

greatest crossover of our generation, at least for me (j-femmescoli, also known as soshcath.feminism) specifically: sam reich dropout’s dad being quoted in my book about catholic socialism

[meggettes]

it's hasten later therefore than to do you the work think! of god.

[diogeneswannabe]

I can't believe that if I was born 2000 years earlier I could've been quoted in the bible Life's so unfair

[duckysprouts]

people still don’t understand batman’s rogue gallery and what they represent to him. hollywood i will kill you. listen: each batman villain challenges a different aspect of his character and/or philosophy, and it is why grim dark batman was never meant to work

joker: chaos and order.

the foil to batman’s suppressed madness. bruce is discipline; none is above the code and justice. “you’re just one bad day away from being like me” WRONG!! bruce wayne has not had a good day since he was 10 years old. every good thing that happens to him is followed by 100 bad things. he is the universe’s punching bag. and yet he persists, does he not? does he not still believe in goodness in spite of it all? suck my dick joker he does not think of you AT ALL you are nuisance to him he wants to spend the one day off he has every year with his family and friends and you had to ruin it with ur lame jokes and terrorist attacks

riddler: obsession and intellect.

the foil to batman’s ego. bruce wayne is one of the smartest people in the world, by way of writer favouritism. wdym you outsmarted brainiac, a being of pure intelligence, just because ur the author’s favourite pretty princess? alright king whatever u say. but he never lets it rule him. his intelligence is a tool to of protection; it’s a shield, not a sword. he’d never raise it against the innocent. edward uses his intelligence to prove superiority, that he is better. he is batman without humility, and that is why he will always lose, because intelligence is nothing without wisdom

the penguin: wealth and corruption.

the foil to batman’s class. they’re both billionaires, Gothamite socialites. oswald embraces his privilege and uses it to oppress the poor. bruce wayne understands his privilege and uses it to pull others up. “you wear a mask too” yeah and it’s prettier than urs u ugly bitch. oswald’s socialite mask is a polished classy persona that disguises his inner evil. bruce’s socialite mask is just a himbo and remains true to his desire to help people

mr freeze: love and grief.

foil to batman’s ability to move on from the past. victor fries cannot let go of his wife and makes it everybody else’s problem. this is also the philosophy of grimdark batman, which is why it cannot apply to batman’s true character. bruce wayne is traumatized from his parents’ deaths, but it also inspired him to become the person who he wished had saved him in that alley. how many times has he looked into the eyes of a scared child on patrol and saw himself? he became the saviour for his 10 year old self left in that alleyway. he was able to heal; yes, his parents deaths has shaped him into the man he is, that’s literally what life does. healing doesn’t mean the grief will shrink, but your world grows bigger around it. he has a family again, built by his own hands

scarecrow: fear and power.

the foil to batman’s darkness. batman is iconic for instilling crippling terror into others by a mere look, psychics hate him because his mind is a screaming hellscape, he dresses like a bat because when he was a kid he fell into a hole filled with bats and he associates it with fear. jonathan uses fear to control the helpless, bruce instills fear in evil to protect the righteous. “you’re just as ruled by fear” WRONG!!! batman is ruled by love. it’s not fear that powers him when he drags his mangled, half-dead body off the streets at every dawn to go home for a costume change and immediately go to a charity gala for disadvantaged youths named after his street-rat son. it’s not fear that inspired him to keep lollipops in his utility belt for the children he saves. it’s not fear that makes him do the same old shit of throwing you fuckers into that useless max security prison twice a week after getting his shit rocked, knowing full well he’d have to do it again in a few days, instead of just killing you.

two-face: duality and justice.

the foil to batman’s divided self. harvey started off as a batman, a lawyer wanting to do good. his trauma split him, but bruce integrated it into himself. bruce wayne does not reject his pain, he lets it shape him and he asks himself: “ok that sucked. how do i make sure nobody else will experience that?” harvey dent is completely split, indecisive in his morality, good and evil depends on the flip of a coin. but batman? people say that bruce wayne is the mask and batman is his true self. dawg do u think his kids call him batman? that’s some shit he’d say in his 20s when he was figuring himself out but he’s a middle aged father now and his children would drag him to filth if he says his black-leather bat fursona is his “true self”. they are all him. brucie wayne isn’t completely his mask either, because it’s the persona he uses to fuck with rich people and you know full well he’d delights in that to the bottom of his heart

his rogue gallery is a mirror to each aspect of himself. everything high-brow reddit bros and zack snyder says about batman’s edgy true self is literally disproven by the people batman spends his life trying to save. he’s not on the edge of villaindom; he stares his inner evil that takes on the faces of broken people in the eyes every night and says “this isn’t the way forward”

[lazyscience]

Can confirm that according to the old hardliners, fantasizing about someone who's not your spouse could be a sin even if you don't act on it (modern Catholics aren't supposed to treat contemplation as the same as the sin of adultery, but Nate certainly would have learned the doctrine around sins of contemplation in seminary school)

funniest moment in leverage is when sophie has to remind nate that he never actually cheated on his wife with her. and he's like. not convinced. like bro you were there

[melrosing]

ser saviour

[tcoaal]

if i ever see another "andrew isn't a bad person it's just ashley's influence-" post after his interactions with julia in 3a again i'm confiscating your media literacy badge forever

[fish-tetris]

thinking about how law was (apparently??) being raised in the one piece catholic church™. thinking about how he specifically refers to the victories of the strawhats as miracles. thinking about how luffy has a god's devil fruit. thinking about law inclining his head and closing his eyes like he's praying towards the end of gear 5 luffy fighting kaido. is this anything.

[j-femmescoli]

"let us by all means avoid equating the unjust violence of the oppressors, who maintain this despicable system, with the just violence of the oppressed, who use it to achieve their liberation." 

-- medellin, 1968

i truly believe that christ jesus taught us to be nonviolent. that being said, i go crazy when (often privileged) people bring up christ's pacifist message to condemn those who are fighting for liberation by whatever means they feel is necessary. i go especially nutzo when those same people don't feel inclined to criticize the violence that is perpetuated by the systems that are being resisted.

[j-femmescoli]

i cant stop thinking about these 19th century sculptures of mary and john at the foot of the cross that i saw in the museum in my spanish hometown. i don’t think i’ve ever stood and looked at anything in a museum as long as i looked at this piece

[redmaycare]

okay pff yeag whatever dude(loses concept of self as time crumples itself in on me, reducing me to nothing but to an idea of a martyr and i am praised and loved but not my own)

og art from 2020 + alt sketch under the cut

might still do something with this concept later but for now. it is a weirdly cropped sketch

[lucifer-official]

i dont know how much of a gimmick account this will be, but whatever right? Also this is inspired by @god-offical and @satan-offical, cause satan and luci are DIFFERENT PEOPLE,

Ask me questions and follow me for attempts at funny or references to an autistic level of christianity knowledge

[j-femmescoli]

HAPPY SIDE WOUND SUMMER DANI

is somebody gonna match my freak? (ponder about Jesus’ shoulder wound)