Meme of Pope holding Baby Yoda

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The more I read people writing how blasphemous it is, the funnier it becomes.
 
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The more I read people writing how blasphemous it is, the funnier it becomes.
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Think about what is happening. At first it is just a funny meme, the Pope holding up a fictional figure. Where has the photo come from?
The Pope , in the non photoshopped photo is holding up the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ. The Pope is holding up Christ. Why? so we can, along with the rest of the Communion of Saints and Christ, himself, present as the Eucharist being held up by the Pope, can offer this unbloody sacrifice of Christ to God the Father. We worship God. In the Mass Heaven has opened up, Angels are constantly singing Holy Holy Holy…
We are on our knees before God. God the father and God the Son.
God the Son, Christ, held up by Holy Father, Pope Francis. Pope Francis, the head of our Church, a Church guided by God the Holy Spirit.

Now someone thought why not sub in a fictional figure for Christ. It really is desecrating the Sacrament of the Eucharist. We pray and make reparation for the outrages, sacrilege and indifference that Christ experiences at the hands of certain sectors of humanity.
 
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Hey you guys, it’s very blasphemous imho. Have you seen all versions of it? There are some in which a light is coming over baby Yoda so whoever did it knew what he or she was mocking.
To the OP - can you privately tell your boss yoi are Catholic and this type of jokes don’t really amuse you? I told mine after giving me some atheist photoshopped work with Christ and Mary and he stopped sharing them with me.
 
Satan loves to upset Catholics with trivial things.
(blasphemy isn’t trivial, but getting upset over something you can’t do anything about is)
The more you talk about it, the more exposure you give it. (as i make my own post…)
Let it go.
 
Things like this make me think of the Screwtape Letters where Satan teaches his nephew it is helpful to bring up evil things in jokes because then he can always say “it’s just a joke! Lighten up!” (Or something along those lines).
People do seem to think “anything goes” if it’s phrased as a joke (or meme).
 
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Jen95 said:
People do seem to think “anything goes” if it’s phrased as a joke (or meme).
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It’s also fear of criticism from society. Actually the cool Christian is an impossible project. In the end there are things that you just can’t shrug off and the aura of coolness is gone…
 
@OurLadyofSorrows BINGO. You said it exactly. This is why I think it is so disrespectful.
 
@Mary888 yes, I will bring it up to my boss in a respectful way. He most likely doesn’t realize it.
 
The phrase “Is nothing sacred?” is meaningful because some things should remain sacred – even though some (insensitive?) people will make jokes / memes.
 
I’ve been thinking a bit about this.
Isn’t that what the essence of comedy is? The taking of things made in one context and the juxtaposition in another.
An interesting linguistic case is the evolution of curse words. They typically come from things that are protected or sacred in society. For instance, countries where talk of sex was hushed up developed curse words from sexual subjects. Where religion was talked of reverently, such as Quebec, curse words developed from religious objects (e.g. the worst Quebecois French curse word is
tabarnak
, a bastardization of the word tabernacle".
They take a word in a “good” or sacred context and put it in another.
Now, I’m not arguing that curse words are fine and everything, simply that they are the result of the sacralization of certain topics. But I digress, and I don’t want to derail the thread.

I feel like there is a great George Carlin quote except I can’t quite find it…
 
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