30 upvotes in a few hours, and my post gets deleted by the moderator, no explanation given. It was fair comment on a news article, and fair comment on what is happening within the Church. This is exactly how fascism gains its power - by censoring those who dare to call it as it is.
What are you talking about? The one about the church?
Read the community rules. The modlog says it was removed due to changing the article’s title, which is against the rules.
Just post the original title next time instead of sensationaling.
I have yet to see a post linked to an article where the article’s title and the headline of the post were exactly the same. Read the article. It was about the fascist influence on the selection of the Pope, whether it was in the title of the article or not. Rule number 1 is about bigotry.
It broke rule 1.
“Fascism is alive and well in the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church” must not have been the original title of the article you linked.
Okay, I just noticed rule 1 for the community is not the same as rule 1 for Lemmy. I did not notice that rule. Sorry. I really do not understand the purpose of that rule. Makes no sense. Why can we not post our own thoughts, and then support them with a link to an article as background support?
If you read the article that was linked, you will realize that there is no bigotry in my post. It did not violate rule 1. There can be little doubt that many ‘protestors’ described in the article, operating in name of the Church, were fascists definitely invoking fascist methods in trying to ensure the Pope was from their political dogmatic position. Not a faith-based lower-case ‘c’ church institution following a theological position, but a capital ‘C’ Church as a political entity and position. I made clear I was talking about the Church as a political Empire, not the faith-based Catholic religious themselves. This should have been clear in my reference to The Roman Catholic (Empire) Church. In point of fact, there was a Holy Roman Empire, a resurrection of the Roman Empire, created by a Pope as a ‘state/political’ arm of the Roman Catholic Church. There was, and some would argue, still is a Holy Roman Empire closely associated with the Roman Catholic Church, so as to be relatively interchangeable depending on the purpose.
My point is that fascism is far more prevalent in our Western culture than many realize. It is, indeed, the current Western zeitgeist. It is not just a movement to influence State Elections, but to entrench itself in every facet of human governance, including the leadership of the Church (and, I posit, the church - all churches). Discussing the fascist nature of a sector that, according to the article, is trying to dominate the selection of the Pope is fair game. The irony of your statement is that the true bigots are the ones behind the protests, the fascists themselves.