• @[email protected]
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    1322 years ago

    The money from the fountain gets collected and sent to Caritas, a catholic charity that focuses on health, disaster relief, poverty, and migration. I am a Queer atheist person in Spain that uses their services and they haven’t once made my queerness an issue. Nor have they exposed me to their religious views.

    So, shrug, I’m not gonna shit on them doing the tradition that many diplomatic events in Rome do.

    • @[email protected]
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      822 years ago

      Objectively, it sounds like it’s an innocent tradition and a healthy charity.

      Subjectively, it’s tone-deaf af, when the rule-makers perform superstition for such a massive world-changing problem. Basically “thoughts and prayers.”

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      +1 for Caritas. My mum, a non-religous person, worked for them for quite some time and I’ve never heard a bad thing from her.

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      72 years ago

      A friend once applied for a job at Caritas in Germany and got rejected for the reason of not being catholic, but christian. I think you could argue that is okay, but by German law it actually is not.

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        42 years ago

        I realy don’t understand why the church still gets to do so many things that are simply not legal. It seems like the law that they have to follow is an older version.

      • @Syrc
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        42 years ago

        Wait what does Jesus have in common with vampires? I’ve always seen him represented more as a Zombie (?)

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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          62 years ago

          He’s a reverse-vampire. He makes other people drink his blood.

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            Holy shit you’re right. And since the Bible was published before 1700 (when the term was born), I guess it would be even more accurate to say a vampire is a reverse-Jesus…?