Vatican opens shopping mall
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Are they selling indulgences again? Maybe they're jealous of the climate religion and their "CO2 certificates".
Because robot puppies are so welcoming :/
Warhol exemplifies Vatican values? wtf
Sus.
The Warhols are basically there to show that you can launder money through the Vatican now via art sales.
This Pope has opened up business to get paid for pushing shit now.
Which brand of robot puppies? The cute anime ones or the gun toting Boston Dynamics ones?
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Robot puppies are more welcoming than live ones. Many people visiting the Vatican are disabled in some way, and live animals can be an unpredictable threat to them.
But of course, better would be robot animatronic Buddy Jesus. Since they're going all-in on the idiocracy anyways.
I'm very pro-capitalist, as in merit based, not crony based. I'm also a non believer, as in I do not accept that there is any god. However I fully appreciate the sentiment when it is held by truly humble people. For example, if a truly humble person says god bless you, I can fully appreciate where that comes from on a human level.
So in this context I view the Church as a completely lost institution, it represents at this point, nothing. They have nothing to offer humanity other than a memory.
The church can only ever be a touch stone in the human story, it can not what ever the sentiment of the day is, strive to be more popular. People either figure it out for themselves or they do not. The story is immortal. It doesn't morph or change to curry favor.
Look at the Amish, the Amish are rooted. This is why they are respected. The church lost it's moorings.
So what's the taxes like in the Vatican vs. Italy?
Matthew 21:12-13
When you ask "What would Jesus do?" it's important to remember that flipping tables and chasing people with an improvised whip is an option.
During our 8th grade east coast trip in the late 90s we visited the National Cathedral. I remember noticing the gift shop and asking a teacher why that was OK considering Jesus cleared the money changers from the Temple. They agreed it probably wasn't appropriate for a church to have a gift shop. Not that it mattered what any of us thought; I suspect that gift shop is still there.