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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago

The Catholic Church has a new mascot.

It's a small child.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago
[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Really surprising it isn't a teenage boy.

[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If there is an internet rule for every character there is a religion swapped version of that character, I'd like to see Pagan/Wicca versions of them like they have moved out of the bible belt (especially Texas) and into a mostly blue state where they can preserve their freedom of religion from certain religious nutjobs.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

Looks kinda like that Chickpea comic.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago

it looks like if raincoats were hijabs...

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

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Maybe they are trying to expaind theor Japanese market

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

The dog shit on their boots is a nice touch.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

yeah thats gonna clean up their image

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 32 points 5 hours ago
[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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)_/¯

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Guys are always ready to work. r63 next?

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

There is already, in the r34 link above.... Ruleception

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago
[-] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

"for every character there is a gender swapped version of that character"

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

If a male version of a character exists, there's a female version that someone has made.

Idk what it has to do with the Catholic Waifu though.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 63 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

Samsung Sam corporate comic

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 34 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 hours ago
[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 46 minutes ago

"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.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago

So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

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"?

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Italian is a direct descendant of Latin (along with nearly every other Western language)

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

There's Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese...there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren't there?

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I was thinking like... English.
Sure, it's got German and French and Greek and just a mess of everything, but there's a lot of Latin in there.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

English is a Germanic language that has had significant Latin and French (which added more Latin) injected into it over the years. It has to be the most mongrel widespread language in existence, which is probably why it's such a mess when it comes to spelling. Still, it also has a lot of flexibility and word choices because of it.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago

Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, my google-fu wasn't up to the task. That's about what I was expecting.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Just blame AI, that's what's been working for me

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It has made finding actually useful information harder nowadays, but I'll still accept the blame for this one.

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[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 8 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, that was my reaction as well. It's so onion flavored I can't believe it.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago

Finally the Catholics have discovered religion!

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 hours ago

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

I love this sentence so much.

[-] loopy@lemm.ee 33 points 11 hours ago

This is the onion-ness we all deserve

[-] XMRFrbgNBwQC6Hkd@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Ahh now I get all the R34 jokes on reddit or/memes today

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