@gollum the difference between the Pope and a celebrity is that the Pope is pushing an ideology based on a holy text and has 1.2 billion followers that try and live most aspects of their life in line with that ideology. Which makes them prime targets for exploitation - the biggest strongholds for the Catholic church is uneducated poor people in third world nations. You'll have to forgive me if I have a problem with exploitation.
Celebrities really just try and make money. And don't have anywhere near as many followers. And people don't try and live their lives in line with... well anything.. because celebrities don't push any specific ideology. Given vaccination rates by percentage for children in western countries is in the high 90s I don't think Jenny McCarthy is reaching many people.
I thought that would be obvious.
Look, it's nothing like as bad as something like Islam, it's undergone pretty consistent reformation for a long time now - they literally just change the rules as they go to try and move with the times. Some of the stuff in Catholicism is genuinely good, but the negative impacts it has on people worldwide far outweigh the positive. They've been forced to change their views on a number of things in recent times, and Pope Francis is the guy they've chosen to lead that, because if they don't there won't be any Catholics living in the west in the near future - the numbers are declining every year.
I'm familiar with how religion works. Those that buy it are overwhelmingly people that were raised within the religion. And when you have someone that's spent their entire youth and most of their adult life dedicating much of their time/money into something, it's pretty bloody difficult to tell them it's all nonsense. That's not an easy thing to deal with. So yeah.. "good luck with that".. thanks.
Again, if you don't give a shit, great for you. I do happen to give a shit, and will take pretty much any opportunity I can to call it out for the corrupt, bullshit organisation that it is.
What I don't get is why you'd have a problem with that.