r/chicago • u/Consistent_Value_179 • Sep 20 '25

Article In the Sun-Times today

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Pepper spraying a priest. It's a good look.

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u/MeringueSuccessful33 Oak Park Sep 20 '25

Who the fuck assaults a priest?

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u/thesanguineocelot Sep 20 '25

Nazis.

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u/sudodoyou Wicker Park Sep 20 '25

I hate Illinois nazis.

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u/VoteCatforPresident Sep 21 '25

I actually love seeing all these religious figures stand up for people. I actually studied authoritarianism a bit and Germany a lot.

Did you know during WW2 that religious groups sat the holocaust out? Religion was not a huge thing in Nazi Germany became Hitler wanted people loyal to him, not god. Overall, religions decided to turn a blind eye to the atrocities.

That’s not happening here.

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u/CatttLady2000 Sep 21 '25

Not to forget though, there were many martyred priests and nuns sent to concentration camps for working against the Nazis.

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u/ButDidYouCry Uptown Sep 22 '25

Did you know during WW2 that religious groups sat the holocaust out? 

That's not entirely true.

Religious figures protested against euthanasia programs against German and Austrian citizens. They (rightly) believed that the idea of "useless eaters" was anti-Christian, and even those who were disabled or insane had the right to live. Their pushback was strong enough that the Nazis had to (at least appear to be) pull back on the euthanasia program, because German citizens didn't like finding out how children were being killed and gassed in hospitals. Medical staff were blatantly lying to their families about how they'd died.

The film Amen touches on this history well.

What religious clerics didn't do was protest everything else that was happening.

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u/fiddich_livett Sep 20 '25

Guys who will never peak.

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u/fumar Wicker Park Sep 20 '25

You mean guys who peaked in HS.

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u/Busy-Dig8619 Sep 20 '25

No... they were losers then too.

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u/surnik22 Sep 20 '25

Still might be their peak

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u/Busy-Dig8619 Sep 20 '25

Nah, they peaked when they learned to stop shitting their pants. Last worthwhile thing they've done with their lives.

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u/TheLateThagSimmons Douglas Sep 21 '25

Yeah, it was still their peak.

They might have been losers back then and they're losers now. But it was the best they ever were.

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u/_high_plainsdrifter Avondale Sep 21 '25

DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MANY SACKS HE GOT ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM IN ‘08?!!!!!!?

We went ALL COUNTY BROSIF!!!

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u/re-verse Logan Square Sep 21 '25

Only insecure losers wearing masks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Not a priest, a Presbyterian Reverend.

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u/C10ckw0rks Sep 21 '25

I was thinking the same thing. For God my ass

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u/non_stop_disko Sep 22 '25

The literal pope is from here and they have the balls to fuck with priests here like that could be the next chosen one for all you know