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Pope Francis has died

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916 points phillipharris | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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d3ckard ◴[21 Apr 25 08:57 UTC] No.43749741[source]▶
I think he will be mostly remembered as a terrible politician, first alienating conservatives with progressive policy and then alienating liberals with very questionable opinions on war in Ukraine.

In the end, nobody was really happy with him. On the other hand, he definitely had a will and a spine to stick to his own opinions - I guess that counts for something.

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deletedie ◴[21 Apr 25 09:56 UTC] No.43750102[source]▶
How very Christ-like
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d3ckard ◴[21 Apr 25 10:12 UTC] No.43750195[source]▶
Yeah, nothing says Jesus like siding with the aggressor due to your own prejudices.
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code_for_monkey ◴[21 Apr 25 11:17 UTC] No.43750618[source]▶
Jesus famously said turn the other cheek
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d3ckard ◴[21 Apr 25 11:56 UTC] No.43750906[source]▶
You can’t turn your other cheek when you’re dead, so I am pretty sure he didn’t mean it as allow yourself to get killed.

Besides, Ukraine did turn other cheek after 2014 war, they just run out of cheeks to turn.

Back to main subject, I believe nothing weakened Pope Francis’s policies as much as his widely misunderstood position on this subject.

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1. code_for_monkey ◴[21 Apr 25 17:34 UTC] No.43754399{3}[source]▶
Jesus pretty famously did allow himself to be killed
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2. d3ckard ◴[21 Apr 25 18:00 UTC] No.43754648[source]▶
Yep, as a sacrifice. Using this as a justification for aggressive war against a christian nation is not only extremely intellectually dishonest, but against the doctrine as well.