So we got some wholesome cute news recently that it seems the catholic church realized how popular anime is with many christians in general. I am not too surprised about this news as a christian weeb myself. I think a lot of people generally confuse the ultra boomer era to the modern one which most people nowadays do not oppose technology, anime, or games anymore. Kind of strange that conservativism is the new counter culture in the west. Lol So are you a christian weeb? I think anime pushes for a lot of good themes in general even with darker stuff like berserk. Most anime usually are about light overcoming darkness, and loving your friends and family. Anime really pushes for the waifus being monogamous to their husband too. Even harems are very loyal. Are you surprised by this news? |
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| "Catholic Church Accepts Anime" Awesome news. :P "So are you a christian weeb?" No, more like an agnostic. |
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Official catholic marketable anime plush. I'm not christian, but i'm a devout theist. |
rohan121 said: So are you a christian weeb? I dont accept any of the Abrahamic religions as my own but I do respect all Abrahamic prophets. rohan121 said: Even harems are very loyal the good old Christian value of polygamy? rohan121 said: Kind of strange that conservativism is the new counter culture in the west. lmaoooooo, at least the underground institution known as the Catholic Church is on the side of the "counter culture" |
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Official catholic marketable anime plush.
I'm not christian, but i'm a devout theist.
I'm not christian, but i'm a devout theist.
| @tchitchouan Lol I also got a Cirno fumo though mine is bootleg. |
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@tchitchouan
Lol I also got a Cirno fumo though mine is bootleg.
Lol I also got a Cirno fumo though mine is bootleg.
| @rohan121 i love mine too, she's very cute and stupid and likes to say "baka". |
| Well...Fuck. Looks like i have to stop watching now. It's against my non-religion to consume anything with any religious ties. |
| Well I'm very catholic person and I love anime, my parents are the ones who introduce me to anime, my Dad really laugh at the west becauuse this whole "anime is bad" my Dad told me "anime is just a another medium like movies, cartoons and tv series don't watch Dark stuff period" I mean look at Philippines they are most catholic religion in the whole world and they are third consumer of anime, anime is not ban on that country. |
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| Kinda ironic considering that there was an actual satanic panic over anime in latin america during the late 90's-early 2000's (i even made a thread about it on MAL some months ago), to the point that religious parents ended up burning their kids's anime merchandise and ruining a good part of their chlldhoods. |
| I know your PTW list is bigger than your completed list. |
| @Kazu-chan-san @Theo1899 Next step will be the approval of incest, loli and harem. |
| im only catholic on paper as i would be for dualism or even spiritual but not religious instead when it comes to religion but ye times are changing back in the old days you will hear that anime is demonic among religious especially when it comes to hentai |
| When I first saw this I dismissed it as just more of the Vatican's boomerism but the reaction has been mostly positive among catholics so I joined the bandwagon and started sharing memes about how Luce will retake Constantinople. Zarutaku said: Next step will be the approval of incest, loli and harem 2 Samuel condemns incest and Matthew 18 condemns pedophilia so I doubt it. Polygamy did exist in pre-new covenant Israel but is not allowed under the new covenant. |
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| 1054 happened for a reason, orthodox christianity is the true christianity, catholics are infidels |
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rohan121 said: So are you a christian weeb? No. rohan121 said: Are you surprised by this news? The Japanese government has already employed anime as a means of publicity in the past, and considering, anime has been growing in popularity in the West ever since COVID, it was only a matter of time before Western governments used anime for the same purposes. Zarutaku said: Next step will be the approval of incest, loli and harem. I hope so. |
| spiritual successor of lord rothchild. |
| Yes, I am a Christian (Protestant) who watches anime. I feel relatively indifferent about this - a bit surprising, perhaps, but not largely so. I don't find anime particularly "Christian", but there are certainly works which use Biblical symbolism or have morally compatible messages. There are also some explicitly Christian works: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/478 - but that can be said about animation/comics from around the world. |
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| Finally we have power of God and anime on our side! |
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| I'm kinda surprised that Catholicism hopped onto the anime train before the Protestants and Evangelicals did... considering the latter's propensity to sell themselves out to whatever pop culture trend is hot at the moment (especially in music) for the sake of "recruiting" the youth. |
| Anime is pedophile stuff anyways. The Catholic Church likes pedophilia. Is it any surprise they would be promoting anime, which promotes pedophilia? No, it is not surprising whatsoever. |
| Nah I'm a Buddhist weeb, but it's always great to get some representation. |
| That's why they're the best Christian church. |
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| No I'm not christian and I am surprised by the news, as I'm cynical I don't think this is about accepting anime but more like trying to take advantage of its popularity, and I don't know how popular the character will be or what they're trying to accomplish with it. But since I don't see any harm in any of this, I don't find anything wrong with this so far. |
| This doesn't suprise me seeing how a lot of Catholic priests are into lolis/shota. And of course they have an loli as their new mascot. |
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| That's fantastic news. Kinda reminds me that anime was found on Osama bin Laden's computer. |
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| Did anyone tell them about the whole imouto/incest thing? 😭 I'm not christian, nor am I a weeb, but that "even harems are very loyal" sentence sounds like heresy to me. Anyway, I don't think there's any reason to look too deep into this, like "good themes". It's just marketing. |
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| The Roman Catholic Church as an institution never had any problems with anime per se. It treated it in general like any other animated series, i.e. cartoons, just created in Japan. However, it needs to be noted that what in general is approved, might not be approved if we take a look deeper. Certain genres or particular shows with content more or less degenerate are not recommended and/or approved by the Church, obviously. I can imagine that many people commenting in this thread who did not shitpost didn't even bother to read about the symbolism behind this Luce mascot. I recommend checking it out. It's a short and fast read, and the symbolism itself is actually quite wholesome. |
| I feel like they are just trying to seem relevant. Do they really have to sanction it? Well I guess they kind of do from how some people acted about it but it seems they are too late by a few decades during the mass Satanic panic over anime that occurred in the US and some South American countries. |
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| as a twitter user said, "vaitcunnyyyy uohhh 💢💢💢💢 need to repent..." i'm sorry for my previous statement pope, please grant me a place in the pearly gates PLEASE |
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I see nothing unusual about it, popes always adored kids, and anime is somehow related. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| The cool thing is that as an atheist I can now say "I have the power of God and anime on my side" and it would be true. rohan121 said: So are you a christian weeb? Nope. I am neither a weeaboo nor a Christian. I'm an anime fan and an atheist (or irreligious agnostic atheist, to be exact). rohan121 said: Kind of strange that conservativism is the new counter culture in the west. No, it is not. Conservatism is not, never has been, and never will be counter-culture. It is the establishment. The ruling capitalist class are conservative. Counter-culture goes against the establishment. rohan121 said: Are you surprised by this news? Yes and no. There are some old Christian anime I grew up with, so I did expect something like this would eventually happen, but I could never have guessed it would come from the Vatican. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. I've already seen artists sharing art of Luce, both SFW and NSFW, so that's fun. Someone already made a Koikatsu! card of her too, so I'll be using that soon. She has a cute design so I'll look forward to seeing more hentai of her. |
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| I'm Catholic and many of my friends from Church like anime, although there are also many who don't care for it. I hadn't initially heard of th mascot until a friend told me a couple hours ago, and I'm surprised that the symbol was so anime/chibi themed, but I am overall very pleasantly surprised. |
| That is quite a step from making a mascot with big eyes to stating that the catholic church has "accepted" anime. From the comments above, people seem to think that the pope has issued a papal bull that recognizes NGE as a fifth gospel or something. |
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That is quite a step from making a mascot with big eyes to stating that the catholic church has "accepted" anime. From the comments above, people seem to think that the pope has issued a papal bull that recognizes NGE as a fifth gospel or something.
| @Tirinchas It's just like that, sadly. I wouldn't be surprised if most of people commenting in this thread (including shitposters) didn't even read much more on this topic, other than that clickbait headline about the Catholic Church presumably accepting the anime (as if anime as a whole was ever not accepted by that institution). |
| This is old news. https://myanimelist.net/anime/2282/Tezuka_Osamu_no_Kyuuyaku_Seisho_Monogatari__In_the_Beginning an ardent request from the Vatican to make the Bible into animated form. |
| その目だれの目？ |
Does the Jewish "church" also approve of anime? |
| There's more to believe that this world is God-forsaken. |
Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone. Helpppppp!  |
| I was a satanic weeb during my teens, now I'm more about making up my own religion so I can LARP as its prophet / cult leader. But ultimately, I'm agnostic. |
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@Zarutaku its been many years since i read the bible but from what i remember the bible doesnt condenm any of those things, well kinda, the bible forbids incest only to jews, catholics an just about everyone else arent forbidden to do that, many important figures in the bible had harrems an God (who casually engages in conversations with them) just never seems to be bothered by that
id say loli is fine too since the bible is, lets say, vague on what the age of consent is, i dont think pedophilia is ever mentioned soooo perhaps God is not bothered by that?
id say loli is fine too since the bible is, lets say, vague on what the age of consent is, i dont think pedophilia is ever mentioned soooo perhaps God is not bothered by that?
@silversain2 I found a search site where you could type in anything to see what the bible says about it, I typed in "cunny" and got 5 results: Although I'm not a Bibular expert I don't think any of these would object to my fantasy of marrying a 7 year old. |
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| I was just reading this news https://sea.ign.com/news/222023/the-catholic-church-just-rolled-out-an-official-anime-inspired-mascot I suppose it is really hard to ignore the "trend" that anime is getting more and more popular among all ages. The mascot looks cute actually. |
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| Yes I am a Christian weeb, hurray for anime blessings |
"Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises" — Edmond Manning  |
| Does it even matter? Just don't be a moralfag. It is that simple. |
| My Christian mother and sister hate anime saying it glorifies the devil, my mother even got mad and yelled at me when she walked in on me watching Hataraku Maou-sama where the subtitle said "Lord Satan" and she accuses me of worshiping the demons saying that anime and Japan has taught me that. I wonder how accepting the church would be about such content. On a side note I wonder how the church feels about Saint Oniisan, I really enjoyed this one. |
 「あなたのためなら世界中を敵にしてもかまわない」 "If it was for your sake I wouldn't mind even if I had to turn the whole world into my enemy" |
I never saw Jews calling anime demonic so I guess yes. But there are definitely some contents in anime that wouldn't be accepted. |
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| spiritual successor of lord rothchild. |
| Y'know, seeing how quickly this put R34 artists to work, it just occurred to me that this might have actually been a 300IQ 4D chess move by the Catholic Church to indirectly "comission" a bunch of art of their loli OC without having to pay a cent for any of it, lol. |
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My Christian mother and sister hate anime saying it glorifies the devil, my mother even got mad and yelled at me when she walked in on me watching Hataraku Maou-sama where the subtitle said "Lord Satan" and she accuses me of worshiping the demons saying that anime and Japan has taught me that. I wonder how accepting the church would be about such content.
On a side note I wonder how the church feels about Saint Oniisan, I really enjoyed this one.
On a side note I wonder how the church feels about Saint Oniisan, I really enjoyed this one.
| @Maou_heika Ayy, it sounds bad. I'm not familiar with this anime itself, but it's a comedy, very losely referring to the actual demons as depicted in Christian culture, no? Names and slight references here or there, but without hardcore stuff seeming like a demonology course in the animated format, lol. Anyway, it happens. I noticed such behavior (it's totally subjective, based on my interaction with various folks on the Internet and in real life; please, don't treat it like facts or anything) mostly among more religious Protestants from the USA, or among very, very devoted (fanatical, even) Roman Catholics. It varies, depending on denomination and culture, I guess. Let's not forget that both Catholics and Protestants are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics or Protestants. |
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