Which People Do YOU Blindly Follow?
We're all sheep, sheeple
So: I got crosswise with the Pope. The ol’ enemies list is gonna need a second page pretty soon:
Okay, I didn’t actually get crosswise with the Pope; I made a joke that involved the Pope, and a bunch of people got mad at me. Here’s the note that led to a blizzard of Catholic snowflakes:
I didn’t think that would get much attention — it was a throw-away joke based off of the observation that an institution so steeped in antiquity that it displays the bones of ancient martyrs in centuries-old shrines might not be well-suited to lead the conversation on cutting edge technologies that even the people who build them struggle to understand. I thought that was a pretty milquetoast take; others strongly disagreed. Here’s the restack that made me a villain in Catholic Notes-istan: