Why are they in debt in the first place? Be a church, not a corporation.
I’m going to need a really, /really/ small violin.
Somebody should lunch an indulgence-based cryptocoin. Buy your way to paradise today!
They used to have a marketing jingle for their old indulgences… whenever a coin in the box rings, a soul in purgatory springs!
No fucking joke. This was actually one reason why protestantism rose.
Pope to Vatican: How does one “chain the blocks”?
Looks like indulgences are back on the menu, boys!
I guess those tithes just aren’t paying.
Maybe Elon Musk will suddenly get religion and bail them out.
Best news I’ve heard in a while
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Thoughts and prayers.
Don’t just leave those laying around, something will fi-- aww damnit, too late…
It’s cool, he ain’t playing it right anyway. He won’t get famous and change the world the way he’s doing it.
C’mon, he’s doing his best.
It’s really hard to do without opposable thumbs!
Maybe if you had four arms you’d hold it different too! Leave Tardiboi alone!
Oh shiiiiiii
This is amazing, it took me a few seconds to realize that is a very tiny violin.
It’s from an electron microscope and was made via lithography IIRC
Does it give a close look at peoples choices?
Good for them, I guess?
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.
But, but The eye of a needle was a market with a small gate and if you only had a reasonable load on your camels then they could pass through so it’s actually ok for rich people to exist /s
That cope from Conservative Christians™️ is always funny. Similar statements show up in the Talmud. A large animal passing through the eye of a needle was a common idiom in Jewish culture at the time to demonstrate impossibility.
I wish they had just said, “look bro, I don’t even need an idiom. I’m just going to tell you. If you’re rich, you’re going to Hell. You can’t exploit people and hoard resources and be in God’s good graces at the same time. Just being rich means that you’re ok walking by misery and not helping. Bro, you can’t have it like that.”
You’d still have wealthy Christians being like “okay, but what did Jesus mean by this?”
You’re absolutely right haha.
“I flicked a nickel to a hobo today. Streets uh’ gode!”
It’s a mistranslation of “sturdy rope”, which indeed would not pass through the eye of a needle.
“Another coin in the coffer rings, another soul into heaven springs.”
Perhaps they should sell off some of the tons and tons of gold stuff they have.
There’s a whole crypt of nicely dressed absolutely dead people who most certainly don’t need to be wearing rubies and gold and diamonds all over their bones.
That needle must have a pretty big eye
No, just microscopic camels.
Maybe they should put their bones in a museum for profit? Come see Saint (whomever)
We do it all the time with brown peoples bones. Why not pope’s bones?
Or their huge amounts of foreign land
Like huge… tracts of land?
Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.
Naw, they just move all the assets out of the diocese and declare bankruptcy.
Child rape. They’re broke from paying for unimaginable amounts of child rape.
Indeed. I’m sorry if it felt like I was minimizing the damage caused.
No! Not at you! Just, in general. We should make a point of calling a spade. Euphemism is dangerous.
Bullshit. They own more land than damn near any other entity on the planet. The whole celibacy thing was so the priest could not take the church owning and give them to non-church kids.
Hurting for money? Sell some land. Then pay for the abuse lawsuits some more.
Bankruptcy seems like a stretch, indeed. But those assets are largely not income generating, aside from donations and tourism. With those on the decline, their value situation is worsening.
Hopefully, they’ll be forced to sell their “priceless” artifacts until there’s nothing left.
Heaven Less Opulent Than Vatican, Reports Disappointed Pope
https://theonion.com/heaven-less-opulent-than-vatican-reports-disappointed-1819567798/
Exactly plus the millions in treasure they have under the Vatican.
How about all those hospitals? Sell them to local owners, force them to be non profit and pay off the resale victims the Vatican created.
