No, cats and dogs aren't "fur-babies" and don't inject some hard case narrative to cover for the fact that much of the Western world is now inhabited with emotionally-stunted and materialistic Karen-bots who have never held a hammer or who loved things that never hugged back:
Pope Francis said on Wednesday that it is a civilizational loss when dogs and cats replace children in society, encouraging couples to “take the risk” to become parents.
“The other day, I was talking about the demographic winter that we have today … many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one — but they have two dogs, two cats,” Pope Francis said in his general audience on Jan. 5.
“Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children. Yes, it’s funny, I understand, but it is the reality, and this denial of fatherhood and motherhood diminishes us, takes away humanity.”
Speaking in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall, the Pope said that with this “selfishness” on the part of some couples, “civilization becomes older” as the “richness of fatherhood and motherhood is lost.”
Saying this as someone who likes dogs, it is a form of farce to suggest that one is an actual parent to a creature whose emotional demands and whose impact on the world is short-lived.
The backlash Pope Francis received from this shows how reflexive the decidedly shallow are, especially when confronted with the knowledge that pet ownership is nothing like the vocation of parenthood and that the generations churned out since the end of the Second World War care more for hollow pursuits than something that truly elevates the individual.
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