Spyke
lemmy.world

Maybe it's like homemade ginger beer and will just keep growing and regenerating unless explicitly stopped.

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lemmy.ca

it's enough to make a small wallet, but when you rub it, it becomes a suitcase.

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piefed.social

My favorite part of Catholicism is all the body parts of saints in shrines and reliquaries. Fascinating

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Björnreply
swg-empire.de

No, we don't have other gods or images we pray to. Those are, uhm, saints that we, uh, honor.

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dumplesreply
piefed.social

They are just the god's buddies. They are just his advisors.

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ggtdbzreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I love how controversial saints are in Protestant-majority Christian societies because here the idea of praying to a saint that can pray better on your behalf is absolutely banal.

I’m not particularly religious but the idea that there are different patron role models to pray to or take as an example for different aspects of life is pretty fun compared to the sterile, unrecognizable (to us) depictions of Christianity we see from other places.

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Protestants hate saints because they hate the idea that the Bible and its derivatives hold value as allegory. Having a saint of making sure your bread isn't moldy so you don't infest the village with hallucinations is far too grounded for them. If it isn't so abstract that only an insane person would believe it then what's even the point of faith?

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Different aspects and focuses just makes sense to me. I also feel like generic thanks or prayers for everything feels like a cope out and worthless. Focus

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I know!!! I went to an awesome ossuary in Italy that was just all skeletons everywhere. I wonder if I could get my skeleton added after I pass.

Modern Churches are so boring and bland.

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lemmy.world

I’ve watched my wife play them both! I’ve got mobility issues in my hands that make anything more action-y than a JRPG not work out.

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piefed.social

I'm going to end up not being able to play games eventually. My hands will fail me, my spine is cutting into my spinal cord. I hope when that happens I'll have someone to play games for me.

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lemmy.world

Sometimes, when it comes to survival horror games (which generally play a lot slower), even though I can play them, they’re much more approachable as a commentary-less playthrough on YouTube. That way, I can’t keep chickening out.

But fuuuuck, to know it’s coming, that’s particularly brutal. I hope somehow you’re given some crazy good sort of boon to compensate. You’re a good kid.

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Theortically possible they all owned a piece of it - I mean the dude was hung like a Gorilla, if you believe Mary Magdalene.

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lemmy.world

Pedantically, it is controversial within Christianity because the doctrine of the trinity is controversial.

Multiple denominations of Christianity reject it so they would not agree with the statement that Jesus is God.

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sh.itjust.works

What is the point you are saying is controversial? Would a divine being not have a penis?

There are "multiple" denominations of divinity-rejectors, but I think they represent a rather small minority of Christianity. Jehovah's Witnesses and who else?

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lemmy.today

Would a divine being not have a penis?

I think it would make more sense if they had something more in-between . Maybe Jesus just had a huge clit, like a female hyena.

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Jesus gets pregnant through sounding and gives birth through his dick. 10/10 interpretation. Make this canon.

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sh.itjust.works

There's no sense to be made anywhere in the story of Jesus, but I was wondering if one unwritten tradition (or maybe written) would be the equipmentless angels from Dogma (Alan Rickman's Metatron).

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lemmy.today

Idk, the huge clit thing is kinda thematic. It would be cool if angels could be tempted by pleasure, even create life, but doing so would be super painful.

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sh.itjust.works

One of my favorite comments about Jesus is, “So basically Jesus has the morality of an average woman, but he's a man so that makes him special somehow?”

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lemmy.today

Seeee, my theory explains a lot of inconsistencies about Jesus. A moralistic man from ancient Mesopotamia is just too far fetched. I need to put together a slide show for the pope so we can retcon this.

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If Jesus was trans, wouldn't have leaned harder into stereotypical masculity? Maybe that's when he took up carpentry.

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In their defense, they were claiming to have Josh's foreskin. It was just mistranslated to Yeshua along the way, and there we are. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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lemmy.world

It is also my understanding that Jewish tradition has the rabbis biting the foreskin off with their teeth.

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gibmiserreply
lemmy.world

This comment was down voted, but it is a true, but uncommon practice.

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