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FUCKTHEPOPE.
FUCKRELIGION.
I have a feeling the Iranian gov't doesn't give fuck all what the pope says. >

I cannot imagine caring about the Catholic opinion. >

There are places and countries that do care about that, i don't think iran is among then >

Oh wow I just realized that it wasn’t this pope who died recently. >

Had to look it up too. >

Ah yes, the Ayatollah will really care about the opinion of the Catholic head of faith, lol. >

That's not the point. If he kept his mouth shut on the matter, then more people would question the Pope's silence. >

A guy wearing a golden cross denouncing the death penalty is pretty funny. 
I mean, i agree with the pope on this but it is just comical is all. >


a golden cross

Doesn't count: it wasn't a death, it was a "time out". >

Thanks for weighing in, pope. >

Something about the Catholic church condemning the death penalty irritates me to no end.
/edit:  to be clear, I'm referring to them as the most killing institution in the world. Between the 6 or so Crusades, the Inquisitions, the witch trials, the burning of heretics, etc.  Not the most total.  That goes to the Mongol hordes. >

I mean, the witch trials and all the nonsense they brought to the world with their religion is kinda there, even if they changed their views in these modern times >

Protestants did most of the witch killing 
The Catholic Church was more about persecuting the Jews, most famously in the Inquisition.
With that one, it was partly that Spain hadn’t “caught up” with the rest of Europe in its persecution of Jews, as it was both embroiled in war with the Muslims over the peninsula, and had found itself with a large population of Jews in newly annexed territories >

only about 4 months late, not that this matters at all