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https://www.ncronline.org/news/vaticans-condemnation-trans-surgery-new-theologians-discuss

But he also recently approved a new treatise on human dignity that lists “gender theory” and gender-affirming surgeries — which many, though not all, trans people undergo — among the “grave violations of human dignity in our time,” placing them alongside sexual abuse, human trafficking, poverty and abortion.

“The idea of promoting gender ideology is confusing because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist. So God created man and woman, and the attempt to confuse ideas from nature will only harm families and people”

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393705/pope-leo-stance-issues-lgtbq-climate-women-politics

Deadly ignorance.

I can’t imagine simultaneously thinking of people as sheep and being disappointed in how sheeplike they act.

But that’s the whole point. We are disappointed in them for acting sheeplike, for letting someone fleece them instead of thinking more critically. They are humans and should know better.

Either way, I don’t think sheep should be exploited.

I have lived in the bible belt all my life, still trying to escape. People are proud of their beliefs even though they aren’t true. “Everyone is entitled to their beliefs” is the common sentiment, but it’s wrong. Everyone is morally obligated to align their beliefs with reality as closely as they can.

That’s where science comes in. It is not an authority, not a religion, not a system. It is a process we use to acquire and refine knowledge. Given the physical limitations of our senses and minds, it is the best we can do.

People need to learn before we all die of stupid.

“Of course I gave the hallucinating schizophrenic a key to my front door. How else will he make my bed when I don’t want to?”

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To day as americans we blindly trust everything we’re exposed too, not because we’re dumb but were inadvertantly trained to.

The rich are conditioning us to accept our abuse. Some of it is inadvertent, though it can be impossible to tell.

Personally, my parents hit me if I did not obey and accept whatever they said. I was physically conditioned to be a delusional narcissist like them. I still did not vote for Trump, but they did. I am trying to apply more critical thinking in my life. It is difficult when my foundation is broken and I had so many bad habits for so many years.

Did my parents intend to abuse their children, or was it inadvertent?

I think he was a harmful hatemongerer and I am glad he is dead.

But I agree about how off-putting it is for so many people to continue profiting off his death. They are scavengers milking a corpse for all they can. It’s not about respecting the person he was, it’s about shamelessly exploiting him for their own gain.