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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Rule 34 intensifies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Is this some kind of moe anthroprism?

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Catholic Church has a new mascot.

It's a small child.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

"How do we distract from all the child molestation?"

"Loli mascot?"

"Genius, go out and buy a 3d printer so I can get my hands on her ASAP!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And you know there will be a ton of rule34 made.... There's just pedos everywhere...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Oh my god yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

We're about 5 years away from the Vatican releasing shotacon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

That's a funny way of saying AI filtered altar boys

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Yay! But wait, what?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

OFC, I KNEW IT

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Already trained image LORAs https://civitai.com/models/899944/luce-vatican-mascot

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mother fuckers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Haha, need to log in for nsfw..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I can't be sure this was the primary use-case that the AI inventors envisioned, but it's hard to argue that it's not successful at this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

All technology isn't created for porn, but it is immediately used for it. I'm ~90% sure the Apollo missions were trying to find green chicks to fuck like in Star Trek.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Numbers are down, release the waifu! Common business strategy with ancient roots.

Samsung Sam corporate comic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'd say the mascot is clearly a child, but the Catholic Church...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks kinda like that Chickpea comic.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

it looks like if raincoats were hijabs...

Who are they trying to appeal to with this, are they launching a vatican sponsored cocomelon clone?

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

They shouldve just asked permission to use Alexander Anderson. My favorite fictional Catholic.

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

Designed by tokidoki 😑 what even is this timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

August 6th 1945: a small forgotten shrine in Hiroshima gets obliterated by the nuclear blast of Little Boy. This was one of the seven shrines holding the fabrics of spacetime together. Slowly spacetime starts to unravel, in the beginning nothing seems unusual but slowly the timeline becomes more and more unlikely. Can our hero stop the unraveling in time?

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

The dog shit on their boots is a nice touch.

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

I just had a realization based on your comment; Their boots are dirty because they are walking through a world of shit. That is a core tenant of Christianity. They get to cop out on trying to make anything better by just saying "oh well, the world is shitty, get believers to make god daddy happy and then die." That lines up with Trump's thematic message of America being some over run, crime infested wasteland. It is the hook by which Trump catches the Christians.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

yeah thats gonna clean up their image

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (15 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.

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

"Luz" is an incredibly common name in Spanish speaking countries. It means light. "Luce" means light in Italian, but seems to be less common as a name. Lucifer means "Light-bringer", and the myth of the light-bringer is much, much older than Christianity.

Old religions thought things in the sky were gods. Venus orbits closer to the sun than the Earth, which means light reflecting from it is extremely bright, but that light is only visible near sunrise and sunset. During the rest of the day the brightness of the sun overwhelms the reflected light from Venus, and during the rest of the night it's not visible because it's near the sun, so it's behind the earth. So, old religions talked about the brightest "god" in the sky, who disappeared when it got too bright or too dark. That led to the myth of the god who tried to be the brightest light and was cast down. That, of course, led to Satan, A.K.A. Lucifer.

I guess the Catholic church was giving its followers too much credit in their understanding of words.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Satan == Lucifer is wrong though. Those were two concepts that got conflated together, much beyond their original meaning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Almost everything in any religion is a "telephone game" retelling of things. These days they're the same to most people which is what really matters.

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Missed the chance to call her Vati-chan.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

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

I love this sentence so much.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the onion-ness we all deserve

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

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

BuddyChrist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kevin Smith posted on Facebook that this had to be the Catholic Church trolling him for getting back the rights to Dogma and its 29th Anniversary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago
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