A masked Priest ready to yeehaw an infant with 0 hesitation belongs on the front of a metal album.

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    i loved the parts where it felt like we were examining all of our social norms and skipping the ones that were dumb and pointless. but now everything has to be just as dumb and shitty as before for no reason [no social safety net allowed, WFH bad, etc]

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      There absolutely are reasons. They just aren’t reasons you agree with.

      The oncoming commercial real estate collapse is a big one. You just don’t give a dick about it. And neither does anyone here.

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        I’ve been priced out of real estate, why the fuck should I care?

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        Nobody with a brain gives a shit about it, because it SHOULD happen. Land isn’t a commodity to hold and rent, even the fathers of capitalism thought so.

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      Now everything has to be as dumb shitty as before for no reason

      Just as I thought I was out of having to shake the hands of twenty people when arriving at a family party, they PULL ME BACK IN! Some of them literally!

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    Interesting how the parents aren’t masked up at all. I’m wondering they were part of the anti-mask crowd snd didn’t even care about all of these precautions anyways. At least the priest was trying to stay safe, but yeah, it looks silly as fuck. You’d think they’d just let the parents have done it instead, or does the holy water behave differently when splashed by a priest vs your parents?

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      Maybe that’d establish a precedent that a Priest wasn’t actually needed for the ceremony.

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      Not sure if you’re looking for an honest answer but the funniest/dumbest thing about this picture is that no, the “rules” are that anyone can baptize someone else. So it definitely doesn’t need to be a priest. This entire scenario is completely unnecessary.

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        I assumed it was something more for “officially” recognizing the child as being part of the Church, or some sort of thing like that. Interesting though, from the 5-minutes of googling that I did, it seems to be only in “extreme cases involving life or death” that anyone other than a priest or deacon would normally baptize somebody else. It would probably be debated about whether this was really a life or death situation, though it does seem like an unnecessary risk for that old priest given that the parents are unmasked. Literally all they had to do was sprinkle some water on the kid and say, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” and they could’ve avoided the silliness.

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    Bonus: Me wondering how the fuck I got community banned by the Atheism community as a card carrying atheist:

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      The atheism community is such a circlejerk that I decided to block it. So, congratulations I guess.

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      Good to see lemmy has already inherited the worst of reddit’s issues: Shitty powertripping moderators.

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        I think most online atheist communities would upvote that sort of thing. In my experience, it’s all just circle-jerking about how evil religion is, and how stupid people must be to subscribe to it. Which is understandable; most atheists are constantly inundated with religious claptrap from all kinds of sources, and need a place to vent about it. They don’t tend to be very positive places, though.

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    Most Metal Stage of the Pandemic

    People were drowning in their own necrotic lung tissue. That is far more metal than a guy in a robe playing with a squirt pistol in a church.

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      Imagine working in the ICU and having people you try to save die on a daily basis just because they would not get the vaccine and you have to pull double shifts because of it. I’d have quit in the first couple of months probably. How they managed to even get up in the morning and force their body to go to work I will never be able to understand.

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        Ask anyone who worked in healthcare and them not taking the vaccine wasn’t the real problem.

        It was the combativeness, the level of self delusion, entitlement, and often physically violent nature of those people. And unfortunately a lot of them survived.

        Daily reminder that people were getting shot for not giving gran pappy’s brother, and cousin, horse dewormer so they can shit their brains out. Or for asking to wear a mask.

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      Baptism is pagan is prolly why, not in the bible, neither is circumcision, it’s for Israelites that don’t exist anymore.

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    Strongly disagree, when a US president suggested we inject bleach and shove light sources into people, that was the most insane stage.

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    Love seeing that community mods are gunggo banning people for fuck all no reason, no warning and no direct communication. Really gives me hope Lemmy will be better than Reddit /s

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    As a metalhead, no, idiots continuing to play make-believe during a pandemic was not metal. This was idiotic.