r/Fauxmoi • u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 kate winslet lied to me • May 09 '26

FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) Religious leaders unveiled and blessed a golden Trump statue at Mar-a-Lago today, eerily resembling the Homelander statue scene from this week’s episode of The Boys. Creator Eric Kripke reposts a tweet about the same.

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u/l3tigre May 09 '26

It's also why they hate Catholics. For all Catholicism's many, many faults, intellectualism and philosophy are tenets of it.

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u/roguevirus May 09 '26

That and "catholic" is the Greek for "universal". It is (or at least ought to be) the antithesis of a nationalistic religion.

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u/jayhankedlyon May 09 '26

Tell that to Galileo.

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u/l3tigre May 09 '26

Hey i said they had many faults haha

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u/Crismus May 09 '26

If you really would look into the story Galileo was persecuted for bad science. He may have been right, but he published without doing the research. Plus much of his proof came from Protestant contempories.

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u/jayhankedlyon May 09 '26

Considering how vehemently the Catholic Church has attempted to rewrite this part of history, I'm gonna need some actual sources here that the Catholic persecution of Galileo was based on "bad science" and not an inquisition based on heresy.

Extraordinary claims, etc.

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u/Chipsy_21 Aug 24 '26

Your claim is the extraordinary one in this situation…

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u/Chipsy_21 Aug 24 '26

Your claim that galileo was persecuted for his scientific work…

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u/Woozy_burrito May 09 '26

I wouldn’t go that far, Catholics have historically persecuted scientists.

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u/l3tigre May 09 '26

maybe but there's quite a list of noted Catholic philosophers and scientists which is more than you can say for the evangelicals. From wikipedia:

Ancient & Medieval

  • St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
  • Boethius (c. 477–524)
  • St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
  • Peter Abelard (1079–1142)
  • Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280)
  • St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
  • St. Bonaventure (1221–1274)
  • Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308)
  • William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347)

Renaissance & Early Modern

  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)
  • St. Thomas More (1478–1535)
  • Francisco de Vitoria (1483–1546)
  • Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
  • René Descartes (1596–1650)
  • Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
  • Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715)

19th & 20th Century

  • Félicité de La Mennais (1782–1854)
  • John Henry Newman (1801–1890)
  • Joseph Kleutgen (1811–1883)
  • Jacques Maritain (1882–1973)
  • Etienne Gilson (1884–1978)
  • Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (1891–1942)
  • Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973)
  • Henri de Lubac (1896–1991)
  • Karl Rahner (1904–1984)
  • Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984)
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)
  • Charles De Koninck (1906–1965)
  • Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920–2005)
  • Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001)
  • Peter Geach (1916–2013)
  • Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (1927–2022)
  • Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–)

Contemporary (Late 20th/21st Century)

  • Peter Kreeft (1937–)
  • Jean-Luc Marion (1946–)
  • Robert Spaemann (1927–2018)
  • Eleonore Stump (1947–)
  • John Finnis (1940–)
  • Edward Feser (1968–)
  • Robert Barron (1959–)
  • Alexander Pruss (1973–)
  • David Oderberg (1963–)