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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Guys are always ready to work. r63 next?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 hours ago

Numbers are down, release the waifu!

Samsung Sam corporate comic

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago

Something something "the power of god and anime on my side"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago

Finally the Catholics have discovered religion!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Yes; "Luce" is Italian for "Light' and "Lucifer" is Latin for "light bearer". They are cognates.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I thought they spoke Latin in the Vatican, aren't they Latino? Otherwise how do we get such classical Christian idioms like "Romanes eunt domus"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Italian is a direct descendant of Latin (along with nearly every other Western language)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, that was my reaction as well. It's so onion flavored I can't believe it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago

Luce will also represent the Holy See at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.

I love this sentence so much.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is the onion-ness we all deserve

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Ahh now I get all the R34 jokes on reddit or/memes today

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

That priest looks stoked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, pedos do what pedos usually do

[–] [email protected] 149 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Missed the chance to call her Vati-chan.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh damn, in German, "Vati" is an affectionate form like "daddy", except it's the word stem of "father" ("Vater").

And wouldn't you know it, Christians also use "Vater" to refer to priests, the pope and their god.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Yes, the US largely figured that out with The Empire Strikes Back. 😜

[–] [email protected] 38 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So they choose Luce, so close to Lucifer, and they expect the Internet to NOT bring it up? There's Lucy, Daughter of the Devil on Cartoon Network for shit's sake.

Nevermind the connections to Death Note, a far more popular anime about Light Yagami, and the subtle connections between his name and Lucifer the Lightbringer.

This seems so much worse on it's face, even if you leave out the undertones of children's abuse by the church and Rule 34 that will come out (which are worse, but the church keeps trying to bury it)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I know nothing about anime, but I guess it is not that bad? Luce is straight up "light" in Italian, and Lucifer just means "the one who brings light" because it's the Angel's name, before the fall according to the fairytale. So from their POV it should all make sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, he's a serial killer trying to remake the world by looking everyone he doesn't like and it's pretty mainstream.

Even without that, drawing attention to Light seems weird. Could've been "Peace", "Faith", or "Love" or whatever.

This is just 12 years of Catholic school talking, but it's a strange name to pick that ties to a lot of less than desirable stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

But Light is like a generic incarnation of god but also knowledge, revelation etc., it's way more absolute than peace or even love. I think Light does make sense from their perspective, and in the catholic symbolism it is identified basically with all positive stuff.

You had a bunch of other references that make sense eh, I am not familiar with them, so I respect that people might have different perceptions.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Lmfao anyone see the movie Dogma, this is modern day Buddy Christ! 😂

BuddyChrist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

buddy christ wasn't fucking adorable though? I didn't want to pre-order buddy christ???

[–] [email protected] 38 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Buddy Jesus would have been an a better choice. The internet fanfiction might have worked for them. I predict they won't be pleased by the fanfiction they're about to get from under age manga.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

All I hear is, the Vatican is after the young crowd. Imagine that....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 76 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Because an official anime boy mascot would be too apropos?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There's more than the one who are (I assume*) boys, also I don't understand what you mean by 'would be too apropos', could you explain?

* I assume because I couldn't find much information about the side characters other than their names Fe, Xin, and Sky. All the references on the Wikipedia page just say their names and include the photo at most or don't even acknowledge them at the least.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago

Young boys especially, but young girls too are probably a little touchy for them to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases

[–] [email protected] 56 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Are they running so low on young people to molest they've resulted to youthful dolls?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Pope played Elden Ring and fell head over heels for Ranni

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago

How is this NOT the onion...

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