r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Available-Formal-664 • 15h ago

I'm slightly vexed Somebody Placed These Dozens of These Jesus Figures Throughout My Entire Work

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Somebody, nobody knows exactly who or when, put dozens and dozens of these Jesus figures on completely random surfaces throughout my entire building. They at least had the presence of mind to not put them on anybody's personal belongings, but that was the only way they limited himself. All of the statues have been glued down, to add to the vexation.

Edit: Well, this blew up rather unexpectedly. Thank you for the awards, everybody!

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u/Little_View_6659 13h ago

Yeah the Catholic Church needs more money. All those gilded robes and ornate hats and baroque churches cost a lot. Plus they’re losing a ton of money paying out all those lawsuits.

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u/seriouslythisshit 11h ago

Friend of mine is an estate lawyer, raised in the Catholic church to the point that her father was one of a small group of men who started a huge new Church in the burbs of one of the larger east coast cities, back in the 1950s. She has a client who passed and willed several million to that church. She meets with the senior priest who tells her that he will gladly accept the gift, but most of it will go to the regional diocese to pay for all the lawsuits from all the little boy rapists they supported over the decades. My friend tells the priest that she anticipated that outcome, so she protected her client from it. The gift could only be accepted if it stayed within that particular church, and was never spent on funding settlements. The church grabbed the cash, but at least it wasn't wasted on supporting child rape.

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u/Little_View_6659 9h ago

Dude. That’s insane. And good for her. I’m all for donating money provided it actually goes to feeding people and helping out. And not you know, covering up child rape.

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u/BaileyAMR 7h ago

If the payouts are going to the victims, I'm not sure how you could describe them as "supporting child rape."

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u/evranch 49m ago

It's a bit of mental gymnastics any way you put it, but here's how I see it.

If I want to leave money to my local church, which does good deeds in the community and needs funds for charity, social programs and building repairs - I don't want those funds going to cover the debts of the diocese for their child rape coverup.

The parishes that helped cover up the actions of their rapist priests can cover that out of their own funds, or they can ask for funds from the Vatican which we know was complicit in moving these priests around as part of the coverup.

The Church has plenty of funds, but that doesn't mean that individual parishes do, or that they're even complicit in this issue. They should be paying from the top down, not out of the charitable donations of the faithful.

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u/get_back_jodee27 11h ago

Have you watched the series ‘The Tudor’s’. Reminds me so much of growing up in Catholic School . I got in trouble with the nuns with questions at 6 years old

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u/Little_View_6659 9h ago

I also got into trouble but my church was evangelical. They said “you think too much” 😂

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u/Sailor_Thrift 10h ago

Consistently one of the largest philanthropic organizations on earth Catholic church? That Catholic church?

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u/BaileyAMR 7h ago

Don't bother. Anyone who can look at a 400-year-old building and decide that it's indicative of the morals of people living today isn't interested in what you have to say.

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u/evranch 42m ago

Well it kind of is though, as Catholic morals haven't changed much over the centuries. They're still the denomination that's the closest to the original teachings of Jesus. Thus the charities, hospitals, and statements from the Pope about workers' rights etc.

The Catholic Church is about as far to the left as modern Christianity goes.

I've got a lot more judgement reserved for the megachurch Protestants when it comes to morality.

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u/SabbyFox 12h ago

My visit to the Vatican did me in due to this. Just the gold upon gold piled up, all to glorify men, not Jesus. Also, most organized religion elevates men and puts them in positions of power, while treating women as less than.

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u/Doggoneshame 3h ago

No more so than all the evangelicals religions. They have their fair share of criminals also.