I Love Luce-y-Xir

Let it not be said that God doesn’t celebrate Halloween.

That was not the October surprise I was expecting… I seriously thought Israel would take WW3 hot on Oct. 7… but that’s why it was a surprise, right?

I thought the Vatican’s Halloween-timed adoption of Luce-fir, and her Election-timed diversity whore sidekicks, was a good thing. Satan is pushing too hard, forfeiting the plausible deniability that protects him from the light of truth, forcing people to make spiritual decisions before they’re safely buried under Daddy Issues and academic credentials. “I am Beelzebub, hear my newsroom buzz!” is not the devil operating from a position of strength. Neither is the devil selling plushies of himself as a blue-haired androgyne with a forked dildo. Too many people have met blue-haired androgynes in real life and not enjoyed it. More on the dildo in a minute.

To my disgust and horror, somebody else thought it was a good thing, too. UNIRONICALLY!

Why Luce Is the Right Way to Make Culturally Relevant Christian Content

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By Soulcyclebooks, 30 October 2024

With the launch of the 2025 Jubilee, the Vatican introduced Luce, an anime-inspired mascot designed to capture the attention of younger generations.

The decision to develop a character with a fresh anime aesthetic might seem unusual to some, but it reflects a smart, current approach to cultural content creation. And it’s already taking the internet by storm.

Methinks he doesn’t fully understand what he’s saying. Anime is an EXTREME departure from Catholic culture. Although I snark about their insistence that God only speaks Latin, it’s true that Catholicism has its own, distinct and admittedly beautiful culture. The architecture and stained-glass windows. The tales and statues of the saints. The monasteries and guilds.

Anime is Japanese. Anime is not Catholic. A Japanese mascot of Catholicism would be as jarringly genocidal, as a vaquero-cowboy mascot of Russian Orthodox. It’s who we are NOT.

Here’s a perfectly good child mascot. Savio is the patron saint of choirboys and juvenile delinquents… don’t tell me that pairing can’t interest kids these days.

And don’t tell me that one cannot tell an interesting story if the ending is known in advance. Two words: Greek tragedy.

Instead of traditional, overtly didactic “Christian fiction” that just preaches to the choir, Luce presents an authentic and accessible way to communicate Christian values in a widely relatable manner.

One of the major pitfalls of typical “Christian fiction” lies in creating characters who exist solely to deliver moral messages, making them feel unrelatable. Luce, however, is a character whose aesthetic feels natural to the medium. She belongs in the anime and manga style, appealing to an audience familiar with that scene. Her look isn’t forced or used to preach; rather, she evokes curiosity. She feels like a character people want to learn more about, making her an excellent cultural ambassador who welcomes questions rather than pelting audiences with answers.

“She feels like a character people want to learn more about”? No, and the proof is her real name’s not Luce. It’s… GRETA THUNBERG!

h/t barnhardt.biz

Nobody… NOBODY, wants to learn more about the blue-haired xir in the hoodie.

Effective cultural content mirrors the universal human experience, rather than dictating it. In contrast to “Christian fiction” stories that focus on explicit religious lessons, Luce represents Christian values subtly embedded in her design, like an icon. Famed Catholic author Dean Koontz said “Stained glass windows don’t have subtitles.” In that spirit, Luce conveys qualities like kindness, courage, and hope—traits that all audiences can appreciate.

She conveys sexual damage, globalism and witchcraft. She’s proudly dirty and dressed like a man, which is as non-feminine as her invisible body and unnaturally-colored hair. Dorothy and Toto were an adorable pair, but this modern female has an “emotional support animal”. What is anybody supposed to see in her, other than yet another child of an ugly divorce making her lonely way through a pedophilic cannibal society?

If the Church is not an exit from such ugliness, if it offers nothing better or more admirable than Clown World, then what good is the Church? Should we be holding our breath to see if Luce ends up a loving housewife with shoulder-length golden hair, having forsaken her nonwhite friends to live among her own people? I’m not.

I know what these Vatican trespassers are doing, because they first did it to us Protestants: the “seeker-sensitive church” strategy to fumigate the Holy Spirit out of the church boxes.

This approach opens the door to discussing themes of faith naturally, encouraging people to delve deeper into the symbols’ Christian meanings without feeling pressured.

Agreed, and here we are. Congratulations. Let’s talk about the Christian meaning of that forked dildo.

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Wiccan Stang Given to Antipope Bergoglio By Woman Wearing Wiccan Red String Bracelet

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The red string bracelet is a very common talisman in witchcraft/Wicca and Kabbalah, which is basically a hybrid of Talmudic Judaism and witchcraft.

Here in the picture of Antipope Bergoglio being presented with the Stang he carried yesterday by two females at a “youth rally” at the Circus Maximus in Rome in August, you can clearly see the woman on the left, holding the [witch’s] Stang, is wearing the knotted red thread talisman bracelet.

The linked article said the red band goes around the “waist”, but that could be a typo or simple variation. They’re definitely witches regardless, intentionally ugly… short-haired and man-dressed… for a once-in-a-lifetime meeting with the Pope. The witchcraft explanation for the forked stang is that it’s a symbol of rejecting dualism & absolutes; with enough knowledge, you understand that the two are secretly one. Something like that.

But we know the truth, after watching feminism grow for a century. The staff is a two-pronged dildo so she can take it in both crotch-holes. I am serious. The staff is THE phallic symbol, female rebellion is primarily sexual because that’s womens’ one power over men, so yeah… this symbol of witchcraft is correctly interpreted as the double-dicked solution to penis envy.

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Let’s skip retreading the rainbow’s symbolism, in order to focus on how the yellow hoodie clashes hard with the blue eyes/hair and green boots. Luce is even colored to be ugly.

By choosing an anime-inspired mascot, the Vatican acknowledges and respects the interests of younger audiences…

Especially the ones not interested in Christianity. Hence “seeker-sensitive”!

…yet they still ground Luce in principles that align with Christian teachings.

Perhaps Niemeier could name one such principle?

This respect for cultural context without losing a distinctly Christian identity strikes a balance that Christian storytellers should emulate: engaging the culture without being consumed by it.

EPIC FAIL!

The most effective characters leave lasting impressions because they invite the audience to make their own discoveries. Many Christian fiction™ stories fail when they spoon-feed every moral and theological point, leaving nothing to ponder. Luce, on the other hand, encourages viewers to dig deeper. Her character design sparks follow up questions.

“Why did we let those diabolist Jesuits back in?”

In that sense, Luce is like a gateway drug for people seeking answers.

For Christian storytellers, Luce is a reminder that stories with staying power are not about telling audiences what they should think or feel; they’re about presenting a character who shares a little of their own story and inspires them to seek more. She’s not a sermon in disguise—she’s a symbol open to personal interpretation.

Neimeier is coming from the standpoint of how Christian Fiction is a literary dead end, because the characters and plots are always straightjacketed into Biblical allegory. That complaint is legit and one that I even share.

However, Greta err, Luce is meant to be a church mascot, not a mere protagonist. She must be an exemplar of Christian/Catholic, beliefs, or she’s not serving her official purpose.

Hey, isn’t a jubilee supposed to be about debt forgiveness? Pull the pin on that holy hand grenade, Francis, I double-female-dog-dare you! Maybe Luce is meant to be a distraction from that.

In Luce, the Vatican has created a figure that feels familiar while offering inspiration. She reflects Christian themes without needing to make them explicit. For writers, artists, and who want to share Christian values through storytelling, Luce shows a way forward. By focusing on creating characters and content that are relatable and grounded in the beauty of faith without forcing it, they can engage audiences in subtle yet powerful ways.

Am I supposed to believe she’s a Christian just because she wears a rainbow-colored Cross? If Niemeier thinks unrepentant harlots never stuck Crosses between their tits to tell the world she’s a good girl then his early life was even more sheltered than mine.

Also, the rainbow thing.

Every author knows that the heart of every compelling story is a protagonist who overcomes real struggles, celebrates victories, and grows with experience. So while Luce isn’t perfect, neither is her intended audience. And that invitation for people to identify with the character is one of the most powerful storytelling tools in a creator’s repertoire.

Is Luce going to end up perfect? Saint Savio did. I am. Is she going to end up a woman that girls want to be? Not if she stays friends with the Harlem Globetrotters. I did not join Christ in order to get comfortable in my sin and sorrows. I did not join Christ in order to become my pastor’s self-funding, broken toy. I joined Christ because He is the one, single Truth in this world of lies.

And the truth is, Luce is Greta Thunberg coming out of the Pope’s closet as a witch, complete with the stick she uses to go fuck herself.