New Pope™

[WhollyHeretic]

Have you heard about the amazing reformulated New Pope™? It is fantastic. It is liberal and nice and totally different than before.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/county-clerk-kim-davis-who-denied-gay-couples-visited-pope.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Oh wait...It's the same crap, slightly sweeter and in a new shiny can? PR companies could learn a few things from the snow job that the Catholic Church has pulled off with New Pope™

[Arugula Latte]

1. Yep. And countless DUers fell for it. Pathetic.

[AlbertCat]

27. And countless DUers fell for it. Pathetic.

Somehow... your tag line gif is so appropriate!

[RussBLib]

2. the biggest difference is right here

Joey Ratz looked like evil incarnate. And the new guy looks like Grandpa. And that's about it.
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[WhollyHeretic]

3. It really has all just been a huge PR push by the church

[deucemagnet]

4. I thought that picture of Ratz was photoshopped!

PR Frank has a much friendlier face.

[beam me up scottie]

5. The pope compared gender theory to Nazi propaganda ... but he seems nice.

[WhollyHeretic]

7. He didn't mean anything bad by that. He doesn't actually know who the Nazi's are

The pope is ignorant has been a funny defense that has been used. Like: The Pope didn't know who Kim Davis was when he answered questions about her.

Then after it comes out he met her: He meets lots of people he didn't know who she was

[beam me up scottie]

9. "Calm down women and lgbt folks! His words don't have any influence here."

Unless they're about climate change, then he's going to change hearts and minds!

[WhollyHeretic]

12. I saw some asshole here refer to them as pet issues

Today. Not that it is something new there are a lot of people on this board who see civil rights as pet issues.

[beam me up scottie]

13. I was told I was hurting my "cause - whatever that is".

Because it's better to worry about the pope's fee fees than my rights.

[PeaceNikki]

14. This is the part that's most hilarious.

Them: Guys, we NEED him he's super influential and people listen to him.

Us: But he says horrible things about LGBT and women and contraception.

Them: We don't pay attention to THAT yucky stuff!!

Lol

[beam me up scottie]

16. And they can't see it!

[PeaceNikki]

17. And they fight you so rabidly then shut down completely when you bring it up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7205254

It always cracks me up when people use this as a response to archaic misogynistic

"No, no, no, just ignore what we think is the bad stuff anyway!!"

That reeks of such privilege and is so selfish I can't stand it. OK, you ignore it and defy the teachings for your own lives while supporting the message and efforts to impose them on a literal global scale. Plus, while you ignore the stuff liberals think is bad, the right ignores the few liberal messages in literally the exact same manner.

Response? Crickets

[beam me up scottie]

19. And when you tell a straight male to check their privilege they do the same thing.

Or even worse they tell you that it's nbd because it's not JUST the Church doing it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7217108

[PeaceNikki]

21. They are *super* contortionists

[beam me up scottie]

22. Lol!

Someone once said it's one thing to stick your head up your ass, it's quite another to look around and say you like the view.

[PeaceNikki]

23. Relevant!!!

[AlbertCat]

28. "No, no, no, just ignore what we think is the bad stuff anyway!!"

Well, that's what they do. I wonder how many Catholics who went all gooey over the Pope's visit haven't been to mass in years....

[onager]

24. Oh, I betcha we could enlighten him about that...

"Y'see, Your Wonderfulness, once upon a time a gang of criminals managed to game the democratic process and seize power in a certain country. Pretty much like your buddies in the Family Research Council and related asshats are trying to do right now in the USA.

Now this gang of criminals really needed international recognition. So a guy named Eugenio Pacelli helped them out. He was the Papal Nuncio to Germany and had the Vatican officially recognize their government, with a document called the Concordat.

And a few years later, Eugenio Pacelli became...Pope Pius XII! And just like Pope Francis today, he was an inspiration to us all. He managed to serve as Pope even though he spent the years between 1933 and 1945 totally blind, deaf and mute."

[Lordquinton]

26. I'm sure he had no idea who Father Junipero Serra was either

Just heard he did some cool Jesus stuff a while ago.

[PassingFair]

6. The Pope-a-palooza wars going on in GD though!

Pride goeth before their fall!

[Ron Obvious]

8. Anybody calling himself an environmentalist...

... while refusing to address overpopulation is just pissing in the wind.

[WhollyHeretic]

10. It's not even refusing to address it. He actively

promotes overpopulation

[PeaceNikki]

15. yup.

[beam me up scottie]

20. Or a person who cares about the poor...

while advocating against birth control.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Maybe they should change the name to ...

Pope Zero™

[PeaceNikki]

18. We're literally living a portion of the plot of the movie "Dogma"

He's "Buddy Pope"

[LAGC]

25. You know...

When I came to read some of the posts in this group last week I thought... "Gosh, some of us disbelievers are pretty damn harsh on this pope. Maybe we should cut him a little slack? He seems to mean well..."

Then, of course, the Wonderpope(tm) showed his true colors this week and I come back here reading all those same pope-related threads thinking...

"Yeah, A&A called it like it was from the get-go. Like usual."