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Mankh's avatar

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination/Dehumanization is the gist of the code of the horrors perpetrated on the Native Peoples and worldwide, and it still affects legal decisions in the US!

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Portia's avatar

It's just horrible and shameful.

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Gianni Simone's avatar

Was raised a catholic until I left the church for good after Confirmation.

Now I live in Japan, a place with a wonderfully relativistic, no-nonsense approach to religion.

I've never understood why everybody likes this pope so much. Probably because his immediate predecessor(s) was much worse, but still. Can't they see the rotten truth behind the PR?

After all, as Gertrude Stein said, "a pope is a pope is a pope."

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Portia's avatar

Gianni, you're a riot! Your Gertrude-Stein-like quote is absolutely spot-on. I used to harbour an intense dislike for Woityła, but papacy in itself is something abhorrent to me. I like the Japanese attitude about religion, and I find the animistic beliefs of the Ainu really fascinating.

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What to read if's avatar

Liked your version of Piccolomini

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Armand Beede's avatar

Portia: Wait a minute!

Since priests were supposed to be celibate, by a legal fiction, his children were, according to sex, nieces or nephews.

So, if everyone calls him, "Uncle," maybe . . . Piccolomini had children everywhere, which is why EVERYONE of a certain age was a possible child of his.

I am Catholic, and I think I LIKE this Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini!

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Portia's avatar

He was a naughty boy, wasn't he?

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Peter Burnett's avatar

Aeneas made for anonymity

Pius, for holy eponymity

Yuk

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Portia's avatar

Well done, Peter!

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Under The Fainting Couch's avatar

It does 😁

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Peter Burnett's avatar

Agreed about Pius II. What's more, he left something beautiful.

Pienza.

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Under The Fainting Couch's avatar

I love this, Portia! So funny and sock it to ‘em! And thanks for the LGBT love. I’m trying to buy you a coffee but the link leads to empty.

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Portia's avatar

Oh Margo, so lovely of you, thank you so much! The link should work well now.

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David Gemeinhardt's avatar

Love the alternate rhymes.

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Tim Burns's avatar

lolol i’m this big fucking dope. love it!

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