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Yuru-kyara but for the pope?
Coraline?
Thank god they didn’t go furry with any of their characters.
CS Lewis did it for them with Jesus’ lionsona
2034: The Vatican unveils official furry mascot
Please no. I think I’d have no choice but to firebomb the Vatican.
Edit: Catholic furries are fine, I don’t have anything against them so long as they’re not trying to proselytize or something; but I don’t want the Catholic church anywhere near me.
Yeah I feel the same, I was just joking
Aslan from the Narnia series is basically a feral fan-made fursona for Jesus
To learn more google “Rule 34 Vatican mascot”
That’s when they finally get me.
Lmfao anyone see the movie Dogma, this is modern day Buddy Christ! 😂
Buddy Jesus would have been an a better choice. The internet fanfiction might have worked for them. I predict they won’t be pleased by the fanfiction they’re about to get from under age manga.
not…publicly pleased, at any rate…
but amongst themselves? probably swapping their favorites around.
Phrasing?
hmmm?
Oh that was intentional.
Buddy Christ was better
Better than Bloody Christ, for sure.
The Buddy and Bloody of Christ, though… Now, you’ve got a sacrament going.
buddy christ wasn’t fucking adorable though? I didn’t want to pre-order buddy christ???
First thing I thought of also, but I rewatch Dogma regularly.
Her name is Light? Like the guy from Death Note?
What’s Luce for?
For seeing, duh.
“Ara Ara! Popu-Sensei is so kawaii!” /s Too bad there are so many cases where Catholic anime turns into the darkest type of hentai.
Numbers are down, release the waifu! Common business strategy with ancient roots.
I’d say the mascot is clearly a child, but the Catholic Church…
Missed the chance to call her Vati-chan.
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.
Yes, the US largely figured that out with The Empire Strikes Back. 😜
Because an official anime boy mascot would be too apropos?
There’s more than the one who are (I assume*) boys, also I don’t understand what you mean by ‘would be too apropos’, could you explain?
* I assume because I couldn’t find much information about the side characters other than their names Fe, Xin, and Sky. All the references on the Wikipedia page just say their names and include the photo at most or don’t even acknowledge them at the least.
Young boys especially, but young girls too are probably a little touchy for them to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
Are they running so low on young people to molest they’ve resulted to youthful dolls?
These are useful for luring new victims back to the rectory.
“Hey little girl, would you like to come to my office to read from the old testicles?”
Pope played Elden Ring and fell head over heels for Ranni
Look, she had 4 arms, a body to kill for, and had a way of getting in your head
Several ways.
She’s no Goldmask though. I want to get me a man that can T-pose on reality until he figures out how to prove god wrong
All I hear is, the Vatican is after the young crowd. Imagine that…
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So they choose Luce, so close to Lucifer, and they expect the Internet to NOT bring it up? There’s Lucy, Daughter of the Devil on Cartoon Network for shit’s sake.
Nevermind the connections to Death Note, a far more popular anime about Light Yagami, and the subtle connections between his name and Lucifer the Lightbringer.
This seems so much worse on it’s face, even if you leave out the undertones of children’s abuse by the church and Rule 34 that will come out (which are worse, but the church keeps trying to bury it)
I know nothing about anime, but I guess it is not that bad? Luce is straight up “light” in Italian, and Lucifer just means “the one who brings light” because it’s the Angel’s name, before the fall according to the fairytale. So from their POV it should all make sense.
Don’t apologize for their systemic pedophilia, et al.
Uh?
I dunno, he’s a serial killer trying to remake the world by looking everyone he doesn’t like and it’s pretty mainstream.
Even without that, drawing attention to Light seems weird. Could’ve been “Peace”, “Faith”, or “Love” or whatever.
This is just 12 years of Catholic school talking, but it’s a strange name to pick that ties to a lot of less than desirable stuff.
But Light is like a generic incarnation of god but also knowledge, revelation etc., it’s way more absolute than peace or even love. I think Light does make sense from their perspective, and in the catholic symbolism it is identified basically with all positive stuff.
You had a bunch of other references that make sense eh, I am not familiar with them, so I respect that people might have different perceptions.
How is this NOT the onion…
Something something “the power of god and anime on my side”
Luce? Like Lucifer? Lol.
Yes; “Luce” is Italian for "Light’ and “Lucifer” is Latin for “light bearer”. They are cognates.
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I thought they spoke Latin in the Vatican, aren’t they Latino? Otherwise how do we get such classical Christian idioms like “Romanes eunt domus”?
Italian is a direct descendant of Latin (along with nearly every other Western language)
There’s Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese…there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren’t there?
Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.
I’d have to get a list of every country considered “western” and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. “Nearly every” one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.
Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.
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So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. It’s so onion flavored I can’t believe it.
