Not every conversation is about Trump, is it possible to stop this?

Lets not forget the hideous acts that this church has commited against young men and children in america. This would the last place I'd accept leadership advise from.

This message is not focused on u.s or its presidents. Its focused on leadership world wide.

Their excuse was that they lived a long time ago when people were idiots. What's the popes excuse today?

Both things can be true at the same time, so shutting down the critique (possibly because it is critiquing something you like??) just because another critique can be made is not a good counter argument

Both American presidents and Abrahamic faiths have, historically, justified slavery and genocide (and often by the same pretense.)

And the current President's ridiculous beliefs are just as ridiculous as believing in transubstantiation. Believing angels manifest on Earth and intercede in human affairs is no more rational believing that aliens are manifesting on Earth but are really demons, which Catholic VP JD Vance believes. The former is just more culturally accepted, and thus given the weight of dignity, but both are valid as far as a naive and literalist interpretation of the Bible is concerned, because demons exist in the Bible, but not aliens.

Either way, as much as the Pope is a silly man in a silly hat looking like a fucking wizard who is required to believe in supernatural nonsense while leading a corrupt den of pedophiles, he's also absolutely and objectively correct on this specific topic and it's clear he's put far more researched thought into his opinions on AI than 99% of people on HN. Hell, he even apologized for the Church's historical support of slavery, and many people here won't even concede that slavery was even a problem.

> Presidents through out American history has believed various forms of genocide and slavery were applicable practices to modern problems; hell the current president thinks variously incredulous things.

And we shouldn't criticize them? Is that the point?