Spyke
lemmy.world

You know, if I had a nickel for every time a Pope looked like Palpatine, I'd have too nickels. It isn't much, but it's kinda strange that it happened twice.

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Jesusreply
lemmy.world

Benedict was more Emperor than Senator though.

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harmsyreply
lemmy.world

OMG I just realized I messed up too/two. I almost never do that. I should sleep more.

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This isn’t Reddit. We understand what you were saying.

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Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

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Perhaps they hope he can rein in American Catholics?

The church is on board with all the anti-abortion stuff, but the rest not so much

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It’s all made up fantasy and bullshit anyways, no need to get worked up over old men cosplaying, and it is actually based on secular politics and feelings, and money. that’s religion for ya.

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Kinda.

Original plot was that a guy goes nuts and makes kebab out of kindergarten kids with his scifi insta-grill machete. It was a slasher movie.

Then the studio thought they went too far and forced them to make some political drama around it.

Then it was too boring, so studio ordered them to Tom Clancy it up, so they added some manly stuff.

After that the original slasher stuff didn't quite fit, so they just cut it off. Spielberg was allowed to keep his name in the movie anyway.

End result was a hodgepodge that didn't make sense. Just stuff glued together with shallow, non-believable character motivations.

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lemm.ee

Different dimension, tho. In this timeline he's good.

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lemmy.world

After all, the light side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be consensual

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