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People forget that the Catholic Church helped smuggle Nazis out of Europe after World War II
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Anonymous 13w

People forget the 70 or so Catholics including clergy that have been named righteous among nations. People forget hitler literally tried to invade the Vatican and take the pope for being anti fascist. People forget alot of things. The church is in the end made up of individuals, some make the wrong choice. Interesting that’s the only one you want to highlight

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Anonymous 13w

The Catholic Church and the Vatican have a very long and troubled past (and present), so this really isn’t as surprising as it should be. It is, however, very hard to keep you hands clean when your main focus has been to spread the word of Jesus in a way that has erased his heritage and denounced other religions.

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Anonymous 13w

The US did too. Its crazy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

lol sorry that I didn’t include a list of good things with the bad thing I was bringing light to 😭 Bffr you’re not upset that I brought up something bad, you’re upset that I’m right about it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

It was interesting you chose to say the Catholic Church instead of Catholics. It’s 100% true though some Catholic clergy and officials were involved in smuggling nazis, but the church as a whole wasn’t. Evil people exist everywhere, but they don’t define an entire organization as big as the Church.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13w

It’s the same logic that’s apply anywhere? Do we blame the US for CIA missions that went bad overseas? Yeah, absolutely. Was it an entire administrations fault? No. But still, that’s what’s said. I think you’re being incredibly pedantic in this case, if you applied your same level of scrutiny to literally any other geopolitical entity you’d see the exact same level of descriptors. Again, I’d be willing to wager if this said: “communists in the US helped smuggle Nazis” - you wouldnt care

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