Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world parody @lemmings.world 4 days ago

"Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media"

alt text: a manipulated image portraying the alleged killer/controversial folk hero re-envisioned as a saintly figure, wearing Christian religious garb with a sun-like halo shining behind his head

Source: someone said this image hit the front page on reddit before being "censored".

Apparent credit: @gedogfx (IG). Title source: "Inkl". 💩posting for meme archival and commentary purposes.

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I've never believed in god, but I think I can believe in saints now after Saint Luigi and Saint Javelin
on a personal level this is hella cringe but from a social perspective i love this so much
Merry Christmas Luigi!!!

🎄 🎁 🙏🏻
It's almost going to be disappointing if we find out he was framed
He was arrested for US healthcare's sins.
Pope Francis has the opportunity to do the funniest thing here
Print it out and put it in your wallet to ward against high insurance rates.
People are unironicaly going to use him in religion in the future.
Are there any more images? This one looks pretty good, but the title promised me multiple images.
Looks great. But it's a missed opportunity to not have this symbol on his chest:
https://clipart-library.com/img/808303.jpg
Unhinged and I am so here for it. Peace be with you.
That's a halo, not the sun. Because he's a saint.
Based
Nice.
This is actually pretty cool in the frame of Folk Saints, maybe I'll write up a chaplet or something 🤔
~~Akshully that's a caduceus, symbol of commerce. It's often confused with the similar Asclepius' staff, without wings and sometimes with a cup.~~

Edit. Agh, I answered the main post instead of a comment, again.
Do you want to get excommunicated and ghosted? Exalting a living non-Catholic socialist who committed murder is how to do it.
How typical of Man to consider murder something a Saint would do, and murder as justice.

Edit: Saints are known and martyred for their selflessness and self‐sacrifice. The church is as man made as the Saints, hence all the bad history both share to whatever degree. (I'm not religious, but I do believe in a creator of some kind).

Peacemaking is peacemaking; love is love; we shouldn't dismiss all the good someone does just because what their shirt connotates. 2+2 is still 4 whether its Hitler or Jesus saying it. Returning good for evil done is more logical whether it's Hitler or Jesus going about it.
this is weird but who am I to judge what people fap to.
Holy cow, how long will this go on?

For me as a European, it feels like I'm observing some kind of weird tribe that just sacrificed one of their people to the gods and celebrating it for weeks....
Lemmy was so much cooler before it was a cult. All this murder worship is the lamest shit ever.

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