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- 11 days
I don’t really have an opinion on this, but it feels really weird. Though elected to the rôle, Pope Leo is one of the world’s last absolute monarchs, answerable to no one. Partly because of this the Vatican isn’t even in the U.N.
Like I said, no real opinion on it, and I suppose that legally there’s no reason to keep an absolute monarch from voting in U.S. elections—it’s not like dual citizenship isn’t absolutely normal—but it does feel strange somehow to have a monarch vote in a republic’s elections.
- 10 days
Generally “rôle” is used, although somewhat old fashioned, to indicate that it’s an actor’s role in a performance as a character, vs the actor’s role in a performance to engage in the work of being an actor.
- Tango@piefed.caEnglish10 days
I got that, but the explanation of the distinction in meaning leaves much to be desired.
You’re right I could’ve explained it better.
As mentioned this is a little dated now but generally
Rôle meant “the character” - i.e. Sir Ian McKellen is engaged to play the rôle of Gandalf
Role meant the job - i.e. Sir Ian Mckellen’s role in lord of the rings was to be an actor, not a set designer.
his role in the production was to be an actor in the rôle of Gandalf.
- 10 days
answerable to no one
I guess you don’t believe in God then. But anyways.
- 10 days
Does this God fella have an address? A phone number? How does he actually exert control over the real guy with the fancy hat and the throne? When has he actually came around and deposed or even reprimanded a sitting pope in the last 2000 years? For all practical purposes there is no God even if he is real.
11 daysDid he vote from St. Peter’s Chair?
a ballot for the midterm elections that will decide control of the US Congress.
I guess so
- 10 days
I think it’s interesting that this thread is split on which way he’s voting. Personally I feel like all his public statements clearly show a preference for the Democrats. I understand the association between Christian and Republican. My personal guess? I think he’s voting Democrat down the ticket and I’m hoping he picks a few progressives.
- 9 days
He’s voting dem. Anyone who thinks he’s voting Republican because Christian is a moron
The Pope voting…
Will he vote for the party that is in support of the values of Vatican regarding underage sex, that, however, is diagonally opposed to the teachings of Jesus? Or the one that is less distant from Jesus’s teachings?
Do you mean diametrically opposed? I’ve never heard diagonally opposed used outside of it’s literal spatial meaning before.
- 10 days
It’s too niche to be a hive of activity on a platform this small, but !boneappletea@lemmy.world does exist!
It sounded kind of funny, but English does a lot of things in funny ways, so I figured that’s probably how it’s said in English and went with it.
Thanks for the correction, I edited the word to written correctly now :)
I was thinking the same. But that means he’s voting against his own staff. We know the hobbies of Catholic priests :(
- 10 days
Given literally every single one of this guy’s public statement, this is 100% a blue vote. Like, y’all he doesn’t hate you as much as you hate him.
I wouldn’t say I hate him. He’s just a Pope and it feels illogical that a pope would not vote for the party whose main point is enabling important people to have sex with minors.
The Pope’s Catholic, after all, isn’t he? Why is he not supporting the main hobby of the Catholic clergy?
- 11 days
The fun part is you could be referring to either party lol
On the topics of underage sex and the teachings of Jesus, neither party really stands above the other.
Obviously Trump is a fart.
I would actually say that one of the parties is less hostile to the poor and minorities than the other.
- 10 days
Less hostile, but still not exactly in keeping with Jesus’ teachings. Deportations were going up under Biden, albeit nowhere near as much as since Trump came back.
Like I say, neither party really stands above the other, on this specific scale. They’re both well below par.
Obviously Trump’s Republican party is far worse than the Democrats, overall. But if you’re just comparing them on their alignment with the teachings of Jesus and meaningfully doing anything about wealthy people engaging in sex with minors, it’s still obvious which one is better but neither party is actually any good.
It doesn’t matter which one is better when both of them fail so hard at it.
Well, one party wants to make trans people feel miserable. The other one wants them dead as soon as possible.
Both are under par, but one is very very bad, while the other one is unambiguously evil.
They are doing the same thing, both being right to far right parties, but there’s still an immense difference in the magnitude.
- 8 days
I would say both are evil, you’re just quibbling over which one is more evil.
The point I’m making is that the difference doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme. Both are wrong, neither should be accepted.
They’re giving us two choices when really we should be punching them in the face.
Much less hostile than the fascists for sure, but far from supportive or even neutral when it comes to the actual policies and other substantive choices by the leadership.
- 10 days
He should vote Dems, but his operation is a hierarchy, the strict bunch of rules and dogma that the namesake taught directly against. The stories mention transcending the ego now in this life, but it got all twisted up to some supernatural thing for later and the hierarchy took over with Rome. It’s such a ridiculous subversion of the small, decentralized system it was supposed to be. They didn’t have a hierarchy and store riches, and clearly said to turn the other cheek, help the poor and outcast and women are equals. Rome went right back to the high control dogma bs that it was supposedly against.
- 10 days
Yes, Christianity got weaponized (into a centralized, hierachical thing) by the Romans through imperialism as it became the Roman Imperial Cult around about Emperor Constantine (aka St. Constantine).
The weird thing is when the Apostles asked Jesus about Rome, he kind of shrugged (or perhaps, he suspected it’d spread his message?)
