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  • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Pope Francis was a great Christian pastor
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    2 个月前

    “Pastor” is the term for the person that leads a church / church congregation. The general ranking of the hierarchy is:

    • Deacon (not yet a priest, are usually all volunteer, but can do some ceremonies)
    • Pastor or priest (ordained, usually employed by the Church itself, they’re allowed to hold all ceremonies and conduct mass or church service)
    • Bishop (management level, must be 35, must be a priest for 5 years)
    • Archbishop (oversee multiple churches and run the archdiocese; there’s 196 in the US. Wyoming has a single archdiocese)
    • Cardinal (upper management, only cardinals are allowed to vote on new popes)
    • Lastly - Pope. The man at the top, there’s only one.

    J.D. Vance is Catholic, and referred to the Pope as a ‘pastor’. This would be like somebody saying “(insert American President) was a good mayor”.

  • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 个月前

    All of your descriptions are hardly unskilled, those take a good deal of education, practice, and in the case of plumbers legal certification that probably involves an apprenticeship. It’s absolutely a skilled profession.

    In my youth I briefly worked for a temporary agency and did a bunch of odd tasks to fill in when needed. The least skilled thing I did was for a newspaper: sliding racks of newspapers from a conveyor belt onto a long table, watching this massive table vibrate the newspapers for a solid couple of minutes (to prevent pages from getting stuck together as the ink dried), then throwing in the day’s collection of laminated ad inserts into each set, and then pushing the boxes onto the next conveyor belt down the line. Training was thirty seconds of instruction.

    I would call it ‘labor’ because it doesn’t need any adjectives or qualifiers. It’s just work, somebody laboring at a task.

  • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•People brace for impacts on land, water and wildlife after feds fire thousands over holiday weekend.
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    5 个月前

    I saw this attitude growing up around evangelicals. “God gave man sovereign control of the earth to benefit us” kind of nonsense.

    These assholes see a beautiful park like Yosemite and are disgusted that it’s full of people relaxing and enjoying the scenery; because all they see is a forest of trees to cut down and a mountain range just waiting to be mined.

    They don’t care about the long term consequences at all because they’re also convinced that Jesus is going to return any day now, and when he does the entire planet is getting incinerated as all physical reality of the universe is summarily disintegrated as god sends all the good people to heaven and the rest of us losers to hell for all eternity.

    I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the argument that NOT clear cutting the world’s forests was actually bad stewardship of the planet that their god ‘gave’ us.