So....Pope Francis has unfortunately died today. It's kind of surprising given he was sick recently but seemed to be recovering, but then he had a stroke and heart failure apparently so yeah, he's dead.
Honestly, can we just be honest for a second? I know I'm not the guy to do this, being someone who is relatively "anti Christian" politically, but Pope Francis was one of the best. He was super progressive for a catholic and was so based he even repeatedly called for a UBI. He was relatively liberal on issues like LBGTQ+, and while he still was limited by his religion and institutions at times, he was basically the best we were gonna get out of the catholic church. And the world is gonna miss him. Let's send him out the proper way here (ignore video, focus on the song, although the video is a good one).
Coming the day after easter, and the day after he met JD Vance there's been some controversy surrounding this. Vance met with him yesterday, after it appeared that francis wouldnt meet him on saturday, and clearly, Francis wasn't happy with him, or his policies on immigration. And to be blunt, yeah, he deserved criticism given how what the US is doing is reminiscient of Nazi Germany.
Some are joking that the pope "meeting the anti christ" right before his death was a bad omen and that vance killed him in a spiritual way, but eh, as someone who has my own spirituality and has researched into "how it goes" when you transition out of this world (through death), eh, I have my own theories.
Generally speaking, we're all gonna die some day. For many of us, our deaths are planned before hand. Our higher selves (basically us but in spirit form) work with our guides on the other side, and we generally have a planned point of exit. This isn't to say that people can't experience premature death from, say, murder, suicide, accidents, etc., but generally, I'm imagining that Francis's point of exit was around now. I mean, the guy's 88, after all. However, that's not to say there can't be flexibility around the exact date and method of the departure. Francis was in failing health just a couple weeks/months ago, and it looked like he was gonna die any minute, but then he recovered. He was able to go on and serve through easter, the holiest of holidays in the Christian religion. He also got to lecture Vance shortly before his death. I think that rather than "Vance killing him" spiritually, what actually happened was he was probably supposed to go from pneumonia but he was given an extension through easter, and an opportunity to criticize vance, who himself is a catholic of a more conservative variety (a lot of tradcaths don't like francis much). And with those goals being achieved, today was the day that it was time for him to go.
So no, the idea that Vance killed the Pope is kinda funny in a "he screws couches" kind of way, but just like he doesnt actually screw couches, nah, I suspect Francis's time was just...now, and if anything he was given extensions as he still had things to do. And with those things being concluded, now he can move on in peace.
So yeah. That's my own take as a spiritual person these days who isn't Christian.
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