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Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Smoking Crow posted:

When I was a kid, everyone rushed out the door after church because gently caress you guys, you're not as important as the Bengals or Steelers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M03pO-Gw0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYKFszOlxLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kebKRIppN0I

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Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Arsenic Lupin posted:

Wow, now I'm realizing how much it would weird me out if a modern (post-1900) church *didn't* have a kitchen, and a big one. When a local church closed out this year, they sold a lot of institutional-quality kitchen equipment.

"My parents used to have a gyro machine, but we gave it to the church when we sold the restaurant." --a buddy of mine inadvertently uttering the most Greek-American sentence possible

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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zonohedron posted:

Feast of St. Nicholas?

That's when six to eight Dutch people show up on your doorstep to explain how Zwarte Piet is totally not racist

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Dog Pope and Nazi Weed Pope bless this thread

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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hey gal
http://www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org/orthodoxy/sermons/2016/revolution-of-love

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Bel_Canto posted:

they're sprung from the same origin as the seventh-day adventists. unlike the messianics, they're pretty much all goyim, but they still think that we need to observe all the old testament laws in order to be saved. they also maintain that the original language of the new testament was aramaic, and think that the Latin name of Jesus is a false name derived from Zeus

Then you get groups like Twelve Tribes or the Roberts Brethren; suffice to say "we call Him Yeshua" is usually a good sign to turn around and walk the other way.

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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hey Mo Tzu, here's your new year's temple visit

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Mo Tzu posted:

you're the second person to tell me about their new year's temple visit

I dunno about the other but since that's Senso-ji I figured you'd enjoy it cause it's Buddhist. We also did Kanda-myojin to cover Shinto.

Tias posted:


Amazing av/post combo :golfclap:

Thanks; my av is indeed what I look like in real life.

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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VoteTedJameson posted:

Then we've got Moravians and Mennonites, who are very insular and not really looking for an outsider like me.

The Mennonites, maybe, but the Moravians will warmly welcome you, they're just not supposed to proselytize about it. If you'd posted this about a month ago I'd have urged you to visit one of their Lovefeast services for Christmas, because those are super great---carols, brass band, beeswax candles to take home, spiced rolls, and overly sweet coffee all in one service.

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Josef bugman posted:

theological slap fight factories

thread title

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Senju Kannon posted:

yep

click the question mark for proof!

Weeabuddhist

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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DOG MONK
http://www.boredpanda.com/dog-friar-bigoton-bolivia/

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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HEY GAIL posted:

many americans are of irish ancestry so it's a huge party over here

And here's where you can get the beef, although you are asked to trade a different penance: http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-indult-desk-is-open.html

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Good for Arthur

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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System Metternich posted:


Not really Catholic per se, but this academic hat is given to recipients of an honorary doctor at the University of Coimbra, Spain and was too awesome to pass up

Portugal. They're kinda sensitive about that and hate it when you call them the Canada of Spain or the England of Brazil.


cis autodrag posted:

It's me, I'm the good atheist

we're called agnostics

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Anyway looks like Twitter's favorite Jesuit is coming to town to talk


That's St. Cecelia's on Belvidere over by Berklee, Boston-area thread parishioners

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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The Phlegmatist posted:


Also there's Frans Snyder during the same time period who made his career out of drawing dead animals on tables. Notice the cat. There's always cats.


Scenes from the Development of the Turducken

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Tias posted:

So I'm finally going to school again, what saints are good for students?

Don Bosco, patron of delinquents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bosco

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Pellisworth posted:

help, Protestantism seems terribly boring we don't have any cool saints or esoteric traditions

Snake handling isn't good enough for you?

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Jun 17, 2003

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Keromaru5 posted:

Yikes. I was hoping for the less murderey sort of rich eccentrics.

On the other hand, I'm probably underestimating how much murder is involved in rich eccentricity.

Russian mobster graves for your enjoyment

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Note that these guys have some capital a AESTHETICS for this thread http://www.heraldsusa.org/habits-uniforms-and-symbols

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Josef bugman posted:

Is suicide really that bad, if done out of guilt?

It's one of the few things I never got my mind round, if someone wants to die and is in pain, why continue the life or make a murderer of another person.

Wasn't banning/condemning suicide one of those things the Church instituted to keep people from speeding up their own entry to heaven, like how "no married priests" is really about property division?

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

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Tias posted:

Saw some pics from an acquintance trip to boston, and they saw a statue of St. Anthony getting covered in dollar bills.

Can someone who's Catholic or who was raised Catholic explain why the statue of St. Anthony is getting all the dollz?

Donations to the church in order to answer a prayer or give thanks for one that's been settled. Most of the restaurants/bars/shops in the neighborhood will have ribbons behind the register where you can pin a bill or two and the full ribbons will be tied to the statue. There are saint festivals in the North End every weekend in August; this one's the biggest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_St._Anthony
http://www.saintanthonysfeast.com/index.html

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Jun 17, 2003

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HEY GAIL posted:

i've never heard of that--is it boston-specific, or the entire northeast?

This particular one is Boston specific but it wouldn't surprise me if there are similar events where there are other large Italian communities.

(I've actually never been to this one, in 23 years of living here, but in general ethnic festivals, church connected or otherwise, are a joy of living in this city)

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