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Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 163 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't care how unpopular this opinion is, but all religions are fucking stupid, and this is just another bullet point in the list of stupid shit zealots do to maintain control over the masses. Oh, you're losing your young people to atheism and science? Better give them a role model and make a fucking saint out of a junior web dev with a geocities site. Holy shit.

Actual holy shit.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Religion is wild. When i tell people that i don't drink alcohol they think it's either for religious reason or because i'm a former alcoholic. When i tell them that i simply don't like it, i'm weird. Somehow it's less weird to not drink because of some pedo magic man from the past said i'm not allowed to.

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 19 points 7 months ago

Just tell them you're not drinking alcohol for health reasons. Nobody will really disagree with you on this.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Outside of Lemmy it might be

[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't care how unpopular this opinion is, but all religions are fucking stupid

What a brave and controversial opinion on Lemmy

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

The pointlessness continues …