Church of Satan, unfortunately. It was the mid-90’s. LaVey and the Order of Nine Angles was all you could really find until you were already into it and knew publishers to look for.
tbf, teenage me would be pretty puzzled by a sassy pope from Chicago that keeps getting involved in American politics. also by how much middle-aged me agrees with that pope.
a sassy pope from Chicago that keeps getting involved in American politics
Sounds like the premise for a pretty okay two-season ABC sitcom c. 1987. (Edit: Maybe even a Perfect Strangers sequel where Larry accidentally ends up as Pope.) Where do I sign?
The last few popes have been relatively progressive, especially compared to most of the Protestant offshoots of the Martin Luther/John Calvin types. I’d recommend checking out the papal enclyclicals. There’s a bunch of them that read borderline Marxist, like Rerum Novarum.
Now that ive said something nice about them, still, the Catholic Church is an organization that does protect its own pedos from punishment, which isn’t unique to the Catholic Church, still fuck the Catholic church for that.
Policy wise Catholicism is all pretty over the place, Rerum Novarum, which is calling for Capital to be responsible stewards to labor was from the late 1800s, they had an encyclical in like the 1500s about how enslaving new world natives was bad. But yeah I agree they’re consistently woefully behind on social issues.
Teenage, black metal, card-carrying Satanist me would be very confused by how much middle-aged me agrees with the current pope.
Satanic Temple or Church of Satan?
Church of Satan, unfortunately. It was the mid-90’s. LaVey and the Order of Nine Angles was all you could really find until you were already into it and knew publishers to look for.
Yeah, I should’ve thought before asking. TST didn’t exist when you were a teenager, unless you consider 30 to be middle-aged lol
tbf, teenage me would be pretty puzzled by a sassy pope from Chicago that keeps getting involved in American politics. also by how much middle-aged me agrees with that pope.
Sounds like the premise for a pretty okay two-season ABC sitcom c. 1987. (Edit: Maybe even a Perfect Strangers sequel where Larry accidentally ends up as Pope.) Where do I sign?
Hm, best I can do is a Jesus and Buddha anime where they’re roommates in Tokyo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Young_Men
Balky: “Don’t be sanctimonus”
The last few popes have been relatively progressive, especially compared to most of the Protestant offshoots of the Martin Luther/John Calvin types. I’d recommend checking out the papal enclyclicals. There’s a bunch of them that read borderline Marxist, like Rerum Novarum.
Now that ive said something nice about them, still, the Catholic Church is an organization that does protect its own pedos from punishment, which isn’t unique to the Catholic Church, still fuck the Catholic church for that.
Religion tends to trail civil society about 25 years in terms of ethics and morality.
These days they even realize condoms are less bad than AIDS. And some realize that LGTBQ people are … actual human people.
They all still value faith over reason and have invisible friends in the sky. Not serious adults.
Policy wise Catholicism is all pretty over the place, Rerum Novarum, which is calling for Capital to be responsible stewards to labor was from the late 1800s, they had an encyclical in like the 1500s about how enslaving new world natives was bad. But yeah I agree they’re consistently woefully behind on social issues.
And also still pedo protectors.
I’d say this one and the last. Red shoe guy was asshole prime.