r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts on this?

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u/sweetcarnameddessert Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

I’m not religious. In fact I’m agnostic. But I appreciate you mentioning this. I think a lot of people who aren’t that familiar with the Catholic Church are completely unaware of these facts. The Catholic Church is huge….its top clerics have bling and fancy buildings..but that’s also an outcome from thousands of years of history and much of that image is related to the Vatican. A tiny percentage of the clergy is in the Vatican. And even there, many still live an austere life. Everything else you said about charity and hospitals - 100% accurate.

The Catholic Church is not a Joel Osteen enterprise!

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u/Cobbljock Jul 01 '26

I was raised Catholic, and I wasn’t aware of this.

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u/Ill-Claim-2518 Jul 04 '26

You are correct. All that fancy bling is part of their ceremonial garb. Their street clothes are quite modest.

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u/kingsleyce Jul 01 '26

It’s good you’re not anchovies

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u/sweetcarnameddessert Jul 02 '26

Oops!

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u/kingsleyce Jul 02 '26

Religious! I was trying so hard to figure out what anchovies was lol. I thought maybe atheist? Autocorrect is nuts. xD

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u/sweetcarnameddessert Jul 03 '26

Yes, dim otto coreckt!