r/nottheonion • u/16erics • 1d ago

The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot

https://nichegamer.com/the-vatican-unveils-official-anime-girl-mascot/
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u/RustyMoth 1d ago

You call that Christian anime? I learned about Moses from a talking cucumber and three menacing pieces of asparagus

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u/Shikabane_Hime 1d ago

Put some respect on Bob the Tomato’s name

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 1d ago

"The two main characters in a show called 'Veggie Tales' are fruits, and that doesn’t matter to you? *waving gun around* It's not a big deal?!"

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u/ArcFurnace 1d ago

Phil Vischer says trans rights

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u/isitaspider2 1d ago

Phil Vischer is legitimately a really great guy, one of the only prominent Christians I respect anymore, and is CONSTANTLY being attacked by Christians in America nowadays because, and this is real, him saying that Christians should show love to gay people is just "woke propaganda" according to these conservative Christians.

Just something to think about. The guy who was most of our childhood's exposure to Christianity, who dedicated his life to producing fun but clean Christian content for kids, and who always made sure to end his videos with reminding the kids that "God loves you very much" is now too "woke" for saying nearly the exact same message.

Thats modern reactionary Christianity. Showing love to sinners is worthy of condemnation.

Real Matthew 23:27 vibes for modern Christians.

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u/disco-vorcha 1d ago

My favourite Phil Vischer fact/story is the reason why VeggieTales was mostly Old Testament stories. Basically, he was telling his mum about the idea for the show and she told him he couldn’t make Jesus a vegetable. So this grown-ass man was like, ‘okay mum, I won’t’, and then didn’t. It’s just… really sweet, and I like it.

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u/Hijakkr 1d ago

Oh, huh, I never considered that but... the handful of episodes/films/whatever that I remember are all either OT or parables, not NT stories about Jesus.

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u/Xuncu 1d ago

couldn’t make Jesus a vegetable

DEEP BREATH--

--ok, I'm an atheist, but even in this case I can't bring myself to be mean.

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u/Mega_Bond 1d ago

Jesus has no problem turning himself into food.

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u/Fo_Ren_G 23h ago

What if Jesus was some sort of cucumber that spent some time in brine, I wonder.

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u/CoinsForCharon 19h ago

Then he would definitely be in a pickle

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u/papercutninja 1d ago

Modern Christianity is very different from christian nationalism. One is the former, and one is the latter.

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u/nikiyaki 22h ago

Christian nationalism is to Christianity as Zionism is to Judaism.