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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 124 points 6 months ago (24 children)

Capybaras are classified as fish in Catholic canon law, on the grounds that they spend their lives in water. I’m guessing that a party of conquistadors was on the verge of starvation and got their priest to petition the Vatican to issue a retroactive ruling in their favour.

[–] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't have a source for this but I had been told it was in an attempt to try to convert Venezuelans to Catholicism

[–] owsei@programming.dev 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You don't like the religion?

Here, we made the big dog a fish, are you happy now?

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

If I were a 16-17th century South American and you turned a big dog into a fish, yeah... I'd probably be willing to believe in your God.

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