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Last week, the White House shared a ghastly AI-generated representation of Donald Trump arsenic the pope connected X, wherever it someway garnered implicit 200k likes.
This nonsense came conscionable a week and a fractional aft the death of Pope Francis, pursuing respective jokes wherever Trump projected himself arsenic a replacement. The backlash to the representation has been wide-reaching, with archbishops, cardinals, and priests calling the stunt "not funny" oregon appropriate.
Meanwhile, Trump simultaneously insists that radical "can't instrumentality a joke" and "the Catholics loved it."
Reporter: Some Catholics are not blessed astir the representation of you looking similar the Pope
Trump: You mean they can’t instrumentality a joke? You mean the fake news. The Catholics loved it. I had thing to bash with it. Maybe it was AI. My woman thought it was cute. Ha ha
Reporter: It was enactment out… pic.twitter.com/eo80ACv6OQ
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1. "As a Catholic who doesn’t signifier anymore, and astir to the constituent that I don’t judge successful immoderate of it anymore, this offends maine greatly. Despite my deficiency of faith, astatine the extremity of the day, I inactive judge successful the halfway tenet of Christianity, which is: emotion your neighbor. And this portion of crap is arsenic acold from that arsenic you tin get."
2. "Devout Catholic present who has been a lifelong Republican. It’s highly distasteful and blasphemous."
3. "Former Catholic here. IDK however to explicate it different than erstwhile you grew up with it, it’s ingrained successful you. You tin locomotion into immoderate religion and cognize EXACTLY what to do. My household is successful the church, truthful I inactive person to spell occasionally and it’s similar coming home... and past I retrieve I disagree with section bishops haha. So yeah, seeing Trump bash each this crap has been horrifying. You’d deliberation I would deliberation it’s comic since I’m not Catholic anymore. But nope, it’s similar getting gutted."
4. "This is, rather literally, the behaviour that the Bible talks astir being contiguous successful the antichrist. This is besides the benignant of behaviour that Jesus himself took a bullwhip to the temple over, which yet got him crucified. People who assertion to beryllium Christians/Catholics but are blindly loyal to this dumpster occurrence bash not travel the teachings of Christ. It is beyond maine however these radical cannot spot the precise things that their beatified publication warns them about."
5. "There's a level of 'this dude is simply a atrocious dude' that tin beryllium crossed, and nary caller accusation changes that. Trump crossed that threshold years ago. Now, it's each conscionable grounds he's not really trying to beryllium better. My religion has taught maine not to judge there's nary redeeming immoderate people, but I besides judge you request to privation to beryllium redeemed."
6. "I'm a liberal, Catholic physician. Love my neighbors of each faiths and deficiency thereof. I cried successful 2016 erstwhile helium was elected due to the fact that I was fearful of him and his ‘policies,’ and I person patients who are crying successful my session astir whether they volition beryllium harmless oregon deported determination they ne'er lived. I’m not amazed by his overwhelming narcissism fixed his history, but the information that immoderate Christian successful wide tin enactment him with his flagrant disregard of respect, not to notation his implicit nonaccomplishment to embody values that Jesus promulgates, demonstrates a nonaccomplishment of galore Evangelicals’ morality and the US acquisition system."
7. "Both of my parents are the astir Catholic radical I know. I presume they’ll some feign outrage and past ballot for him a 4th time."
8. "Non-Catholic joined into a Catholic family. Beyond being violative and disrespectful, it’s conscionable stupid. He’s a satellite leader. This is the White House. Why the fuck are they wasting clip and vigor some creating and putting retired this silly nonsense? Total amateur hour; professionals don’t descend this debased for stupid, offensive, attraction getting nonsense. They should each beryllium embarrassed, but then, it’s beauteous connected brand. Just changeless clueless, tone-deaf stupidity."
9. "'In essence, the mendacious prophet is simply a almighty fig of deception, who uses religious-like appearances and miracles to pb radical into worshiping the Antichrist and receiving its mark, yet starring them to eternal damnation.' This people was mostly worn connected the forehead... reminds you of a MAGA hat, doesn't it?"
10. "Catholic here. Separation of religion and authorities MUST beryllium maintained! Anyone who suggests Catholicism should regularisation American instrumentality is an extremist cult follower."
11. "With each the lying, threatening, and boasting coming retired of the White House connected a regular basis, this enrages maine alternatively mildly to beryllium honest. I privation to God this was the worst nonsense Trump enactment retired there."
12. "Cradle Catholic, wide bluish sheep of the family. Haven’t practiced successful years but admired Pope Francis a lot. It’s ridiculous. It should piss disconnected my precise blimpish family. But they’ll find a mode to hand-wave it similar everything other since 2015, them being connected the Trump train."
13. "It makes maine ill. I was raised Catholic, and that representation is not comic to maine astatine all. Being a pope means caring for the mediocre and ill. It means speaking retired erstwhile radical are attacked."
15. And finally, "First of all, he's not Catholic, truthful it would beryllium impossible. True Catholics (I'm a atrocious Catholic but person been attending wide for 40 years) would cull everything Trump is about, and they'd beryllium capable to spot done his lies. We're expected to beryllium anti-violence, pro-charity, bash unto others arsenic you would person them bash unto you. We're expected to clasp the little fortunate and invited them. Treat visitors amended than you dainty yourself. Anyone who thinks helium would beryllium a bully campaigner for Pope, oregon adjacent a bully Christian, is simply a hypocrite."
"I've begun pushing them retired of my life. If you weren't paying attraction to the 10 Commandments, you're expected to grant God supra each things. It's the archetypal one. They worship 1 thing: money. If you travel the Catholic faith, you cognize that each those who idolize Trump are headed to 1 place."
If you're Christian/Catholic, what bash you deliberation astir Donald Trump? Do you enactment him? Do you judge helium follows the teachings of Christ? Share your thoughts successful the comments oregon successful the anonymous signifier below.
Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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