Once again, you can’t really compare these two. Especially since all the modern countries that descend from the axis powers relinquished the territories they conquered and have often even payed compensations to their former victims.

By that metric neither does the pre Vatican II church before 1965

I am not to comment on that more than: that comparison doesn’t make sense.

But they absolutely exist

Not really.

and do the thing that you said nobody does.

What did I say nobody does?

None of the axis powers exists.

This applies to Japan

And they are widely criticised, like they should be.

Yes, previous Popes have said the opposite, but not this one

He will still promote many of their previous campaigns and the individuals perpetrating them as necessary or good.

Most people I know recognize how fucked up it’s been (and still is).

I disagree. I have been reading up on the Spanish mission system and have multiple times been shocked by how even secular progressives will whitewash the missions to the end of the earth.

You can’t really compare the Vatican to WW2. But if you did, imagine if the axis powers still existed and got to keep most of their territories while telling their neighbours they just wanted peace but also promoting their generals and crimes as heroic and necessary.

Francis beatified Junipero Serra (among others), so that’s a huge minus in my book. But I guess the bar is in the toilet.

Also, don’t anyone else feel statements like these are hugely hypocritical? The catholic church has benefited from the waging of war against non-christians for most of it’s history to the point previous churchmen has created entire theologies of justified war. Now when they lead a great population of followers they can pretend to be peace loving hippies.

Remember, the last time a people had catholicism forced on them as the consequence of war was when Chile conquered the Mapuche in 1883 and placed them in reservations and worked to convert them.

I have read many articles by professional zoologists and otherwise diehard cryptid skeptics, and many agree that the costume is exceptionally well made. See: Darren Naish

Maybe this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVegHHmZ028&t=141s

Besides, Bob Gimlin has denied it being a hoax for all this time as well, so it’s two claims against each other. In fact, even most skeptics accepted that Gimlin was truthful and was fooled by Roger Patterson.

If you want to know some more, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBuWLe1MC_A Gimlin appears in the documentary. He is confronted by Heironimus, I think, and some other guy and has agreed to come forward and admit it was a hoax all along. It’s his wife of all people who want to keep this under cover.

Btw, personally, I am a bit bomb shelled at this news.

If you are into bigfoot, or just cryptozoology in general, you know Patterson-Gimlin is a big thing. Bigfoot basically falls and rises with the legitimacy of the Patterson-Gimlin footage. It remains the only bigfoot evidence, that has continued to evade clear debunking, for decades even, fueling the little bit of professional attention that bigfoot receives. If you are aware that “Bigfooters” and the bigfoot hunting community exists, this will likely be the biggest bombshell that has EVER hit the bigfoot community besides the Patterson-Gimlin footage itself.

Daaaaaaaaaaang, I know that poster and she 10000% voted Trump. If she wasn’t Canadian.

release them!

That 50 year old looking man was 31?!