Forwarded from a channel I shall not name:

"🇻🇦It’s come to our attention that the Vatican has announced a cartoon mascot for the 2025 Jubilee. On the surface, it looks like a reasonably kid-friendly and wholesome character made to appeal to the youth. However, beneath that, there is a number of troubling concerns.

First of all, the company that designed the characters and the art style, Tokidoki, features Gay Pride merchandise on their website. In our tumultuous times, hordes of progressive demons eager to poach souls for their masters will hang on to every possible word or gesture that they might twist to suggest that living a sinful lifestyle in tune with the modern world is somehow a-ok and sanctioned and approved by the Vatican and the Pope. It should go without saying that cooperating with sodomites and their enablers is scandalous at the very least.

Second issue is that the image and the artstyle represent a misguided approach to guiding today’s youth. On one hand, it comes off as an insincere and out of touch attempt to appeal to young people. On the other hand, it’s been shown time and time again that youth respond very well to strictness and tradition, and the unique features of the Christian Faith, and that all attempts to modernize and liberalize the Church just make it irrelevant. The Church can't compete with the world in the area of worldly goods, it should focus on what the world can't provide. It seems counterintuitive in the modern sense of psychology (as if psychology isn’t a pseudoscience that’s re-written every couple of years), but Discipline is what draws people to the Church, rather than away from it, because it instills a sense of meaning and purpose, something people, especially young people are desperately missing in their lives.

Something of course can be said about anime and surrounding culture. While there are occasionally great works that transcend genre and cultural barriers, overall, anime is a cesspit of techniques and conventions by a deeply broken and humiliated people that should be pitied rather than emulated. The quintessential anime artstyle has been designed to be easily picked up by artistically challenged comic writers, or easily animated by underpaid art students in sweatshops. As such, it often lacks the expressiveness and uniqueness of someone not following these conventions. As creativity is integral to the human soul, we should encourage artists follow their unique voice and vision, not latch on to what is safe and easy"