The Vatican has unveiled a new cute anime girl mascot, hoping to create characters that "can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations". The new character named…
    • darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 days ago

      “How do we distract from all the child molestation?”

      “Loli mascot?”

      “Genius, go out and buy a 3d printer so I can get my hands on her ASAP!”

    • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      And you know there will be a ton of rule34 made… There’s just pedos everywhere…

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Oh damn, in German, “Vati” is an affectionate form like “daddy”, except it’s the word stem of “father” (“Vater”).

      And wouldn’t you know it, Christians also use “Vater” to refer to priests, the pope and their god.

  • Twitches@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Lmfao anyone see the movie Dogma, this is modern day Buddy Christ! 😂

    BuddyChrist

    • TriflingToad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      There’s more than the one who are (I assume*) boys, also I don’t understand what you mean by ‘would be too apropos’, could you explain?

      * I assume because I couldn’t find much information about the side characters other than their names Fe, Xin, and Sky. All the references on the Wikipedia page just say their names and include the photo at most or don’t even acknowledge them at the least.

      • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I thought they spoke Latin in the Vatican, aren’t they Latino? Otherwise how do we get such classical Christian idioms like “Romanes eunt domus”?

          • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 days ago

            There’s Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese…there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren’t there?

              • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                6 days ago

                I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.

                • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  7·
                  6 days ago

                  Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.

            • caseyweederman@lemmy.caEnglish
              31·
              6 days ago

              I was thinking like… English.
              Sure, it’s got German and French and Greek and just a mess of everything, but there’s a lot of Latin in there.

              • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                6 days ago

                English is a Germanic language that has had significant Latin and French (which added more Latin) injected into it over the years. It has to be the most mongrel widespread language in existence, which is probably why it’s such a mess when it comes to spelling. Still, it also has a lot of flexibility and word choices because of it.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 days ago

      “Luz” is an incredibly common name in Spanish speaking countries. It means light. “Luce” means light in Italian, but seems to be less common as a name. Lucifer means “Light-bringer”, and the myth of the light-bringer is much, much older than Christianity.

      Old religions thought things in the sky were gods. Venus orbits closer to the sun than the Earth, which means light reflecting from it is extremely bright, but that light is only visible near sunrise and sunset. During the rest of the day the brightness of the sun overwhelms the reflected light from Venus, and during the rest of the night it’s not visible because it’s near the sun, so it’s behind the earth. So, old religions talked about the brightest “god” in the sky, who disappeared when it got too bright or too dark. That led to the myth of the god who tried to be the brightest light and was cast down. That, of course, led to Satan, A.K.A. Lucifer.

      I guess the Catholic church was giving its followers too much credit in their understanding of words.

      • portuga@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Satan == Lucifer is wrong though. Those were two concepts that got conflated together, much beyond their original meaning

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Almost everything in any religion is a “telephone game” retelling of things. These days they’re the same to most people which is what really matters.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      6 days ago

      it looks like if raincoats were hijabs…

      Who are they trying to appeal to with this, are they launching a vatican sponsored cocomelon clone?

        • cranakis@reddthat.comEnglish
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          5 days ago

          I just had a realization based on your comment; Their boots are dirty because they are walking through a world of shit. That is a core tenant of Christianity. They get to cop out on trying to make anything better by just saying “oh well, the world is shitty, get believers to make god daddy happy and then die.” That lines up with Trump’s thematic message of America being some over run, crime infested wasteland. It is the hook by which Trump catches the Christians.

        • ammonium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 days ago

          August 6th 1945: a small forgotten shrine in Hiroshima gets obliterated by the nuclear blast of Little Boy. This was one of the seven shrines holding the fabrics of spacetime together. Slowly spacetime starts to unravel, in the beginning nothing seems unusual but slowly the timeline becomes more and more unlikely. Can our hero stop the unraveling in time?