Why do people pretend that shitting on "da Church" is somehow controversial or unique? It's one of the least controversial things you can do, it's practically been religious dogma in Anglosphere for the last few centuries. It's about as daring or controversial as saying you love Catholicism in a Catholic church.
controversial enough for you to whine about it
I don’t have a dog in the fight I just find it amusing. Saying Catholicism is LE BAD has practically been a religious mantra in Anglosphere since the 16th century. Everything seems to supports this observation. It’s basically our equivalent of the Catechism.
>Here's a funny one; what did the priest say to the altar boy *sips*?
>Catholicism is… LE BAD for the 100000th time
Wow… daring. Stunning…
>Noooo how dare you make irreverent jokes about notorious sex scandals among the religious hierarchy of my faith!
I’m not Catholic Anon. I come from an agnostic/culturally Protestant environment. It’s just funny seeing the endless mantras and expecting to blindly follow through with the orthodoxy without ridiculing it.
I doubt many people form "agnostic/culturally Protestant environment" get offended at the implication of a tasteless boomer joke about pedophile priests on LULZ
Im not offended by what you said lmao I don’t give a shit. My mind just immediately went to the 100000000 times I heard that joke in real life
You give enough of a shit about it to start an off-topic vent thread on LULZ apparently
>mocks something I see endlessly online and in real life constantly
>nooooo you can’t just make fun of this nooo haha you’re mad actually hahaha
Because while the church doesn't have nearly the same amount of overall influence on the west it did 500 years ago it's still the largest branch of Christianity and even the largest religion in its own right if viewed completely as its own thing; it's still viewed as "the man". I agree with you though, only hacks are still making those jokes.
Yeah I’d get that idea if you lived in a culturally catholic country like Spain or Italy, even though it’s already mostly a dead horse due to secularism. But in Anglosphere, which I live in, it’s been “the man” that has been endlessly preaching about how evil this institution is and morons still think they’re going against some sort of status quo. It’s pretty funny and shows a bizarre sense of cultural paranoia and a complete lack of self-awareness
It's very situational. If you live in a very liberal area then it may be very normal, but in more rural and religious areas young people who grow up in toxic religious families or situations will see it as a way of rebellion, and thus come across as if they are treating it as controversial.
Toxic religious families now days means going to a Catholic school not run by priests and going to mass once a year
You see the results of this with atheist parents and grandparents who rebelled against their religious precursors and modern zoomies rebelling against them by being religious and adopting socially unacceptable/heretical views.
Rural areas are predominantly protestant in America. Making fun of Christianity is edgy still but making fun of Catholicism in those areas, while still edgy, isn't quite the same thing. It's already predominantly seen as an "other".
https://www.americancommunities.org/religious-stereotypes-vs-reality-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-america/
>oppress, burn, torture, murder, and genocide people who disagree with you for 1500 years
>WAAAAHHH I'M OPPRESSED
Fuck. off.
>waaaa waaa please dont criticize this nooooo you cant just criticize that noooo nooooo