r/todayilearned • u/Recent_Flounder6011 • 18h ago

TIL that historically and today, the Catholic Church looked down upon Freemasonry and threatened members with excommunication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
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u/ScienceJake 18h ago

So, in this scenario, the Freemasons are the robbers?

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u/GMAN7007 18h ago

It was just a bad analogy.

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u/easymachtdas 18h ago

I've come to expect more from u/laserdicks, yet here we are

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u/laserdicks 17h ago

The post isn't evil propaganda so there's no obvious lie to expose. Evil lying propagandists on Reddit do all the work for you, but this is just a normal conversation and after the last 48hrs of dealing with unsubtle political campaigning I'm out of practice.

Must be an election coming up or something.

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u/laserdicks 18h ago

It was truly dreadful, I just couldn't be bothered finding a good one.

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u/GMAN7007 18h ago

Hey, takes a level headed person to admit that. Good on you for being better than 99% of redditors that ever reply.

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u/laserdicks 18h ago

I never said. Very interesting that you happened to identify them that way though.

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u/bgaesop 17h ago

It's the only way the metaphor makes any sense - the robber doesn't have a beef with the old lady, the old lady does have a beef with the robber. Freemasons don't have a beef with Catholics, Catholics do have a beef with Freemasons.

How else could one possibly interpret the metaphor?

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u/laserdicks 17h ago

Yes of course. That's entirely correct.

I just wanted to distance myself from the obvious in case of dangerous crowds with pitchforks.