Having pets instead of kids "takes away our humanity," says Pope Francis

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Being judged by an old man that runs a millennia old repressive regime takes away our humanity

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Pope Franny is so out of touch, you want humans to make babies, then make the Earth a better place to raise said babies. Why is this so f’ing hard to understand?

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In my experience there’s only two reasons for birth rate panic:

  1. Oh shit, the economy!
  2. Oh shit, people who are DIFFERENT are still having lots of babies!

I’m gonna file this one in category 2, but it could be both.

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If you are overstocked, don’t keep ordering inventory.

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How many kids has Pope Francis had?

Oh, none?

Tsk. How selfish of him :roll_eyes:.

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I expect better of a Jesuit than this clumsy and easily de-bunked BS. Stop listening to Ratzi and up your game, Frankie.

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Sure Jan GIF

To be fair, he does speak out on issues like social welfare and the environment quite a bit. He is wrong on issues like this which are rather patriarchal, but he is very much interested in speaking out on other issues about human welfare and dignity in general. He is a mixed bag in that regard.

Let’s not do this. It does have very deeply problematic, malthusian overtones. In places where women are actual free, this problem solves itself. That’s how you deal with “overpopulation” (which the real problem is over consumption in the global north and lack of distribution of resources globally).

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Do you really know? Wouldn’t be the first pope to have children in secret.

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Wouldn’t celibacy have the same effect?

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To be fair, he also thinks transgender people are as dangerous as nuclear weapons.

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Don’t get 'em angry.

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Hey, Pope, got any kids? No? You must be selfish.

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Yes, another shitty take that fits in with the patriarchal comment. :woman_shrugging:

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Broadly speaking, this seems to be on brand. But suggesting that there’s centuries of private planning in the Vatican to out-breed all other religions is a little bit tinfoil hatty.

(Unless someone has some light reading for me here to support such a cynical viewpoint, happy to read through it)

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Fun fact: the word “nepotism” comes from the Italian for “nephew”, which was used as a euphemism for the illegitimate sons of Renaissance popes.

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Christ, what a popehole.

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I did not intend to give offence with my comment. I apologize.

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