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submitted 10 months ago by unmarketableplushie@pawb.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Image transcription: A screenshot of a Tweet by @Terror_Alarm, with images of Pope Francis and the transgender flag attached. The Tweet reads: "🇻🇦🏳️‍⚧️ His Holiness Pope Francis to finally allow #transgender Catholics to be baptized, the Vatican announced. It is a major step for trans inclusion, very big and good news for millions of Christians." Quote-tweeting this, @cungadero responds "he finally played his copy of undertale". End transcription.

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[-] bbpolterGAYst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 10 months ago

toby fox has full control over the vatican

[-] Konlanx@feddit.de 31 points 10 months ago

Pro tip: You don't need the allowance of a stupid old man to do be baptized. It also doesn't mean anything, so you can just not do it and care even less about the opinion of the stupid old man.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 10 months ago

I don't think that's exactly the point here, I think the point is that one of the most influential people alive (though not to everyone as you can see) just said trans rights.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

… as long as it doesn’t upset the congregation or confuse people.

“if there are no situations in which there is a risk of generating a public scandal or confusion among the faithful”

[-] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago

confuse people

we're going to teach Catholics what it means to be trans smh

[-] SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network 29 points 10 months ago

Everybody repeat after me: Thank you MatPat

[-] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

why?

[-] LittleEndu@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

iirc he gave the pope a copy of undertale when they met as part of some event

[-] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

.....

why?

[-] SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For full context, there was an event where several YouTubers/Online personalities met the pope. I couldn't say the specific reason for doing so, but during their visit each of the groups presented a gift. In MatPats case he gave the Pope a copy of Undertale.

Then a lot of people started to clown on MatPat for giving the Pope a copy of Undertale. He made a response defending his gift choice, and honestly it wasn't that weird of a gift. It's just funny to me personally because the situation is so low stakes but became a meme because of MatPat's response.