• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 days ago

      If the Catholic Crusader armies want to consume the flesh of their slain IDF enemies they’re allowed to, a little, as a treat. I honestly cannot give less of a shit about “civilian causalities” in a holy war against the Zionist Entity.

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        Okay but like its not just Israelis who live there. Do you think Palestinian Muslims would do well if we let tradcaths decide where the bombs were dropped. Then again this is pointless. The pope can’t call a crusade, American Catholics who actually say the deus vult shit are functionally protestants and the rest of the Catholic world isnt going to give enough of a shit. Like if you think Lula or Sheinbaum are going to organise an invading army on behalf of Leo you’re just not connected to reality.

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          This is obviously a shit post, yes there will be no holy crusade, and Pope Leo is not raising an army lol. Dude met with Ben Shapiro and the VP, he’s not going against Western imperialism in any sense.

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            People treating a “the Pope in 2025 should execute an armed international crusade into Israel in real life” post with absolute seriousness, and then telling you to touch grass, has to be one of my favorite HB bits

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      Im not trying to defend the Catholic Church here. It is an institution that as far as I can tell have been right on precisely one issue in 1000 years (Eugenics, they were opposed). But the last crusade was in like the 17th century, even if you’re only counting crusades in the middle east we’re in the 14th or 15h century.

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        Okay but why do we need “unironic” religiously motivated conflict to stop the genocide? Look up the religion of the people they were eating, it’s not like the Deus Vult guys are going to stop with Jews. This whole thing isn’t even funny as a bit, it’s just unhinged.

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          I don’t think an actual crusading army would be a humanitarian force, I don’t believe i said they would be. In fact I think its pointed out that I don’t consider the Catholic Church to be that moral an actor. I’m simply pointing out that there were 600 years of religious war crimes after what you said was the last time they did this.