Falling for Fiction

Wörter, die ich dreimal lesen musste:

some of their members had already been kicked out of the church for antisemitic bullshit. this move was also decided by the fact that they investigated the cult and realized the antisemitism was literally part of their doctrine and not just antisemitic clonwery from singular members.

It was about antisemitism too! I’m Jewish myself and our congregation representatives have been in touch with the Catholic Church for years about this and this was indeed a major point - after all previous members at the time weren’t excommunicated for defying the popes order’s because that’s something that could only happen to the group as a whole. At the time the reason explicitly given for those excommunications were specifically about the singular members’ comments on holocaust denial and other antisemitic hateful remarks. of course, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but their antisemitism was also one of the main motivators for the pope’s decision.

I think it’s important to clarify that this isn’t just any silly/funny religious incident but it’s the church finally cutting ties with one of the most antisemitic religious groups on earth. members of that cult were already excommunicated for holocaust denial and antisemitic rhetoric, namely one of their already excommunicated bishops went on Iranian state TV two years ago to say that the Jews are to blame for the Ukraine and Russian war and that they invented Covid to enslave humanity. Like I absolutely think it’s important to not just call this a schism but also antisemites being punished.