Submitted by Specific_Success_875 t3_y4en3i in todayilearned
What a boss pope.
Yeah, this Catholic Church thing sounds like a stand up organization. I wonder what else they're known for...
You're probably gonna want to sit down for this.
You’re probably gonna want to.. take a sip of this wine for this..
Why do I feel so sleepy after just one sip of that wine?
Because whatever is in the bread started kicking in already.
Ergot?
It's called that because it makes 'ur gut feel funny. And then the demons come.
I don't think that was bread....
Whatever is in that Body of Christ started kicking in already.
Shh bby is ok
There's a Bill Cosby joke in there somewhere...
Here’s a cushion…just in case
thanks, im still a little sore
Here, let me go throw your socks in the wash, cause this might knock your socks off anyway
Canadians entering the chat..
Okay, Chris Hansen...
*bend over
if you want an organization that is schizophrenically hit-or-miss, you'd be harder pressed to find one as successful and long-lived
One of the largest and most successful charitable organizations in the world. Also cannot seem to stop hiding child molesters amongst its clergy.
Oh it's worse than hiding. Actively enabling, abetting, and recalling them to The Vatican, which is a Sovereign State, to avoid prosecution when they're discovered.
Pope Francis is the PR Pope, yet has done very little to actually change how they handle the child rape problems outside of "Stern warnings".
You mean hiding them away. Such noble work. /s
Shots fired
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Known for being one stand up organization, no?
Well, they were one of the good guys in WWII, used to hide Jews in their monasteries/orphanages/etc.
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I know for a fact my great great great great great great grandparents are in heaven because my great great great great great grandparents bought them golden tickets from the church!! Can you believe it?!? Man. They got a get out of hell free card
How is it a free card if somebody bought it
Wow! I'd love to see this "get out of hell card". Besides being a very valuable historical artifact!
Dope pope.
Dope pope.
At the next World War the Vatican helped Nazi’s hide before providing a pathway to run to South America.
*Correction: A rogue, Austrian bishop (Alois Hudal) helped Nazis hide and escape to South America, and eventually left the Church when he was discovered and was told he would be dismissed. He was then banned from Rome by Pope Pius XII (who wrote an encyclical condemning Nazism).
The Vatican, in fact, issued false baptismal certificates for tens of thousands of European Jews to save them from the Holocaust.
Thank you. I'm no fan of religion and we all know the Catholic church has been corrupt in 50 million different ways, but I will not stand for this particular slander of them. They were the good guys during WWII, an active and invaluable part of the resistance.
Definitely. As a Catholic, I can acknowledge plenty of actual wrongdoings in the Church's history. So honestly I'm mostly annoyed that he felt the need to make something up.
There's so much valid material to choose from if you really wanna hate on the Church.
The Vatican was active in those ratlines
In what way? Please elaborate.
It’s T(oday) I L(earned)
It’s not T(oday) I T(aught)
If you're the one making a claim like this, the onus is on you to provide the evidence.
Using the same sentence that people use to talk to religious people, on someone that hates religious people. And completely correctly too. Well done!
I since have 👍🏼
Linking a Wikipedia article which mentions nothing about the Vatican being involved =/= providing evidence.
Mhm. Sounds very credible.
Well I would love to "learn" more about these alleged Vatican-endorsed ratlines. But you can't seem to provide any kind of source or evidence to support your claims.
That article mentions nothing at all about the Vatican being involved. But if you had taken the time to read it, you would have found a link to Alois Hudal's bio, which states the following:
>"When, in 1937, Hudal published his book on the foundations of Nazism, Church authorities were upset because of his deviation from Church policy and teachings. Hudal, without mentioning names, had openly questioned the Vatican policy of Pope Pius XI and Eugenio Pacelli towards Nazism, which culminated in the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, in which the Vatican openly attacked National Socialism."
>"In January 1952, the Bishop of Salzburg told Hudal that the Holy See wanted to dismiss him. In June, Hudal announced to the cardinal protector of Santa Maria dell'Anima that he had decided to leave the college, disapproving of what he viewed as the Church's governance by the Allies."
>"After he was banned from Rome by Pius XII, Hudal withdrew to his residence in Grottaferrata, embittered towards Pius XII."
Literally took nazi gold as payment too.
Fucking crooks.
You know, balance of the force or something
“You were supposed to bring balance to the force! Not leave it in darkness!”
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Thanks for sharing that. As a catholic its easy and for good measure to blast the church recently. Especially with the priest scandals. Its nice too hear some good news lol
Good news from 100 years ago lol. It's not really good news if you have to look back that far!
Yea like priests weren’t doing sketchy unethical and disgusting things before our modern sensibilities developed.
Google "castrato" and you'll be sent down all sorts of church related rabbit holes.
Hey, so, you like singing and we like the sound of your voice so if you’ll just turn your head and cough, we’ll just snip these right off and get back to worshipping Jesus
Wait until you try to figure out when conservatives were on the right side of history!
What’s the hardest part about growing up catholic?
Knowing that you're going to hell no matter what you do.
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Nah, it’s the priest.
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Good
Just need all popes to have ethics like Benedict XV
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Insult me please
Seriously. Insult me daily like this.
Your mother was a hamster
And your father smelled like elderberries.
Actually a very subtly offensive insult. Hamsters breed like crazy so it's basically like calling someone's mother a slut.
ur dum
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bro not very good at insults 😹
"Hey man, I really hate you. So please accept this outrageously expensive gift with slight built-in impracticalities. Waht? No, you can't pawn it ..."
It does say Ass Pie at the bottom of the image >.>
If you're interested in rare insults giving a white elephant in Siam was actually an insult in disguise.
While honored and almost sacred a white elephant would be a burden because of how much it would eat, all the while being incapable of working under the sun given it's albinos skin.
The equivalent of being given a tank that can't fire but can't be turned off either
The equivalent of 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
People must've had some really whack ideas of what was insulting back then
"Haha I just gave you an unimaginable fortune in gemstones but get this.... You can't even wear them! What sweet revenge!"
It was only around 179,800 Francs in 1805. According to this random inflation calculator online, that's a little over a million US dollars in 2015.
https://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html
So basically, the cost of a house in the good part of a major American city.
You say that like it's nothing...
Well, it’s practically nothing to an emperor.
Right, but there were how many of those on the planet at the time? This seems like the ultimate "baller" move - to say, I have so much money I can afford to blow it on this huge gaudy thing not fitted to be worn and far too heavy to be comfortable. But I so much money to me, I can do it as a "fuck you".
That’s fair, but when the baller is also your head of state, one could consider it an expensive diplomatic gesture. It probably boosted the nation’s morale, especially since Napoleon’s reign was basically a “fuck you” to the feudalistic status quo.
It basically is nothing nowadays. Back then a gift costing 179,800 francs is a "fuck you" only affordable by someone as rich and powerful as the Emperor of France.
Nowadays any ruler of a minor country can throw that kind of money around. heck any CEO of a medium-sized company has that kind of money.
The weird thing about inflation is that the amount of wealth in the world has gone up by a lot more than the cost of goods. Looking at luxury items from centuries ago is crazy because a lot of them aren't that expensive when adjusted for inflation.
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Fortunately the following pope, Zippy, made good use of it.
If anyone feels like insulting me by sending me 8kg of gold and jewels, go right ahead.
I would someone would so this kind of boss move on me. I'd be devastated, of course, crying all the way to the jeweller.
Highest-priced insult in cash World-wide?
This was directly above in my feed and I misread Napoleon as Nintendo. Wild few seconds there.
I'll take that insult any day.
So...I should use it as a table ornament?
“Here is the jeweled crown you ordered”
“It’s total shite, can’t wear this garbage, throw i- On second thought….” -Napoleon probably
Napoleon-sized
He was about the same height as the average man in France today.
those lil bitches
“ oh no I have been insulted“ I proclaim dramatically as I happy put it on the shelf with other collections
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That's just like hava
Napoleon, your mother was a hamster and your father smelt Of elderberries.
It's good that Napoleon improved his insulting methods when he got in that Epic Rap Battles of History video
Please insult me.
I'll take that kind of insult.
“Ass pie”
Funnier fact: the decade before, during the Wars of the Coalition, he invaded the Papal States and asked them a so high ransom they had to remove the gems of the previous papal tiaras.
What a read. Who knew Napp was so savage
A lot of the bad guys, were good guys during WWII
It’s very late here, I read that as ‘nickelodeon’. Lol
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Man id knock u out if i saw you. God bless the internet 🙏
You’re so unhinged you’re not even replying to the actual reply chain anymore. That’s funny.
turn the other cheek, my guy
Get some help lol anyways you have the last word there Mr Champion.
I don't think I got the first word in whatever this dispute is.
It probably fit Napoleon though. He was tiny
That's actually a myth. He was an average hight for the period (5.6). He was called the Little General as an insult to his low birth, but the aristos didn't laugh for long lol.
I believe it was also due to differences in the French and English measuring systems
You're only 2 meters? Well, I'm 5 freedom units. Take that metric system!
That’s what happens when you have your own measuring system, invent the Imperial system and don’t use it, and then convert it all to the metric system anyway except for weight. How good at keeping track do you think they were before all that?
Wasn't it (also?) because his personal guards were all chosen due to their large sizes, so he looked small by comparison? Or is that another myth?
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It’s an urban legend. Google shall set you free
I doubt it. He had a big ego and therefore a big head.
Yes you're right.
He was average height.
Also Napoleon only being an inch shorter than me at 5' 7"
Taller than stalin
Specialist_Shine_298 t1_isdvuvb wrote
Pope Benedict XV had the tiara's jewels removed and replaced by replicas made of coloured glass. The jewels were sold to raise money for the victims of the First World War.