In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church.

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• Marine_Mustang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And she was vilified for it. Ahead of her time.

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• xuxebiko@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She said "Fight the real enemy" while tearing up the pic.

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• shellkr@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She was ahead of her time and extremely strong. Doing the right thing was more important to her than money. RIP.

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• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then she joined a cult based around venerating a pedophile prophet.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    30 years later, after some very public mental health struggles. She was a humanitarian with a big heart and a lot of courage. Don’t try a take away from a dead woman’s accomplishments because of personal choices toward the end of her life.

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh no judging a person by… their actions.

      She died a hypocrite.

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s one description, but in context it’s misleading. If we wanted to talk about Christianity or Judaism we could look at the Bible and find shocking things there as well. And maybe we should. But that’s a totally different discussion from bad things that the Catholic Church did in the 1900s.

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    • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jesus was a hippy, who whipped scammers at a temple. Mohommed raped a nine year old and was a warlord.

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not interested in a game of whataboutism.

      She willingly joined a cult that worships a pedophile after calling out a cult for shielding pedophiles from justice.

      That’s as straight forward and in context as it gets.

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  • dtrain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Blocked my first user on Lemmy!

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  • DigitalWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    islam?

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• rehabdoll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ireland got proper fucked by the church it seems. There was a “Behind the bastards” episode about it. Highly recommended if you want to get mad

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  • Aldrond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everywhere the Catholic church has ever been, it’s consistently fucked everyone over. It is a leviathan of abuse and harmful politics.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember that…

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• Ktheone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Joe pesci did a SNL special the following week after that where he threatened to beat the shit out of Sinead. Makes me lose much of the respect I had for the man.

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