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Thoughts and prayers.

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Don’t just leave those laying around, something will fi-- aww damnit, too late…

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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.

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13 points

C’mon, he’s doing his best.

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5 points

Maybe if you had four arms you’d hold it different too! Leave Tardiboi alone!

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4 points

Oh shiiiiiii

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This is amazing, it took me a few seconds to realize that is a very tiny violin.

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It’s from an electron microscope and was made via lithography IIRC

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Does it give a close look at peoples choices?

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144 points

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.”

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I was expecting this exact quote. Never fails to put a smile on my face.

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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

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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.

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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.”

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It’s a mistranslation of “sturdy rope”, which indeed would not pass through the eye of a needle.

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2 points

“Another coin in the coffer rings, another soul into heaven springs.”

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Paying out legal claims and bribes from all the sexual abuse scandals are not cheap.

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Naw, they just move all the assets out of the diocese and declare bankruptcy.

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Child rape. They’re broke from paying for unimaginable amounts of child rape.

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Indeed. I’m sorry if it felt like I was minimizing the damage caused.

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No! Not at you! Just, in general. We should make a point of calling a spade. Euphemism is dangerous.

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98 points

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.

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Heaven Less Opulent Than Vatican, Reports Disappointed Pope

https://theonion.com/heaven-less-opulent-than-vatican-reports-disappointed-1819567798/

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Exactly plus the millions in treasure they have under the Vatican.

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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.

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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.

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