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[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 50 points 10 months ago (11 children)

beavers and capybara are classified fish by the Catholic Church

[–] Skasi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)
[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

no, but alligators and puffin.

my basic understanding is that people wrote intentionally advantageous descriptions of the animals when submitting them to the Vatican for approval or something. like they just stressed how much time the animal spends in water and not much else, and the pope wrote back saying "yeah that's okay"

[–] zombyreagan@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Iirc the capybara thing was a special dispensation to help out indigenous tribes in south America

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"God makes an exception for you and your group, specifically."

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

So they are ... God's chosen people?

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