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The Vatican document was compiled by a committee of celibate feudal lords wearing archaic robes and signed and endorsed by their celibate king, wearing his silly hat in his magnificent palace, and declaring it all to be the direct word of their god.
I don't think they understand anyone's lives.
Have you seen who guards the Pope? These are not people who live in the real world.
lmao that is a group of the goofiest looking people I have ever seen
Goofy, but they train with small arms. To be fair, they do dress in plain clothes when outside the Vatican, but it still shows how divorced from everything they all are, because a lot of the church hierarchy in the Vatican stay there for life.
I do kinda wish that any military groups keep the same style of dress uniforms from when the regiment was created. The UK does this a little but it would be great seeing a hodgepodge of US regiments looking like Theodore Roosevelt's Roughnecks next to guys in Civil War looking outfits and WWII kit. We still dress people in goofy robes for college and hugh school graduation, so why not the army?
surprising that they dont use swords
You will be happy to hear they still use halberds instead.
Mmmm halberds. Slicey.
Technically, I think they're called voulges.
I am by no means am expert.
I just went of this:
The halberd is still the ceremonial weapon of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican.
And I am pretty sure that in German they call the weapon of the Swiss Guard Hellebarde.
Took long enough for an Archer reference ITT. Thanks.
If a clowncar was a state...
lol this is an amazing picture, thank you
The man who is supposed to be closest to god needs guards to protect him and is driven around in a bullet proof popemobile.
If someone told me this image was AI i would believe them
It’s weird seeing a picture of the pope where he doesn’t have the silliest hat.
This pope only wears a slightly silly hat.
OH-EE-OH, YO-OH!
I'm not going to try to defend this any further than to say they're not claiming it's the "direct word of god" or anything. They claim it's their interpretation, and that their interpretation is definitely right, which is probably worse.