• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    So they are labeling a brand new (and obviously flawed) AI as a priest, but women (who are human beings) still can’t be priests?

    Sorry ladies, you’ve now fallen further down the ladder.

    • Regular straight Catholic men - acceptable priest
    • Gay Catholic men - acceptable priest (as long as they don’t get caught)
    • Male converted Anglican priests - acceptable priest (in some scenarios)
    • Catholic men with gross sexual habits - acceptable priest
    • Flawed AIs - acceptable priest
    • Corporations - soon to be priests?
    • Catholic women - ABSOLUTELY NOT!
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      Come to think of it, it’s a bit surprising that a more woman-centric sect of Christianity hasn’t risen to any level of prominence in the US. I suppose it’s easier to transition into agnosticism or atheism than to form a belief system, but its absence is still surprising in the modern era. Or is it as simple as demographic shifts and the absence of power during relevant periods? Religion is gradually waning in most of the west, after all. The patriarchy potentially stole The Mome from us, and that’s kinda lame tbh.

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        I don’t think the vast majority of American Christians are anywhere near ready to accept a Christian denomination founded by and led by women. Which is a shame. I think such a denomination would have some interesting and probably beneficial perspectives to share.

        But given how Christianity has been male-led from the very beginning, how it stemmed from another male-led religion, and how engrained into American Christian society it is for women to be docile, obedient child production machines… Yeah, that ain’t happening for a looong time!

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          It’d be faster to turn Wicca into a women led mainstream religion than to wait for another millenium or two for Christians to give women a leading role.

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      but women (who are human beings)

      Is that actually the church’s stance? Like, has the pope ever said this?

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      You’re forgetting child raping pedos in that list, right below the gross sexual habbits. I’d say that one deserves its own category

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        Yeah I was lumping them into that same category. But you’re right, they probably do deserve their own category.

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    It thought this was the new Vatican DLC for Civ VI when I saw the image, lol

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      Father Justin, will you trade my 25 Diplomatic Favour for 20 horses please?

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        Father Justin agrees, then sends Apostles to each of your cities and coverts them.

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          Father Justin then warns you that OUR WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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            Imagine the Papal States never dissolving and becoming a nuclear-armed power in the 20th century, using the threat of nuclear annihilation to maintain their independence and increase their global influence.

            That would be an interesting alternative history scenario.

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              I’d read that novel. I bet you could find a lot of creative uses for all that rapture talk.

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    The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

    Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

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    1. Does AWOL mean something other than “Absent without leave”? Cuz that’s a weird way to describe a computer algorithm.

    2. …aight so I’m definitely not a theologist, but… according to christianity, or catholocism specifically… is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism? I’d assume it just says “water”, but there’s water in gatorade. Sure there’s also other shit in gatorade, but there’s other shit in tap water too. Even distilled water isn’t going to be 100% pure.

    And if gatorade’s cool, where do they draw the line? Could you baptize a baby with honey? Or drop a steak onto the kid’s face (there’s water in those too!). Does it even have to be liquid water? Like what if you just threw some icecubes at the kid, or blasted some steam in its face??

    So many questions!

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      It’s not just any water, it’s holy water. If a priest has cast Ceremony to create the holy water on whatever, sure. But why when you probably have liquid water tk hand? God might wonder if it’s very sincere if you’re just basically doing it for a laugh. Might take away your spell slots.

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      is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism?

      It’s better, cuz it’s got electrolytes.

      Does it even have to be liquid water?

      So like, ice X at 60 gigapascals and -120 °C?

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        It’s better, cuz it’s got electrolytes.

        It’s what souls crave!

        So like, ice X at 60 gigapascals and -120 °C?

        What’s the worse that could happen?

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      @Sterile_Technique
      Not catholic, so I don’t know their official position, but as I understand, in extreme circumstances any liquid will do.
      Part of it involves the idea of “washing”, or “being washed”, so solid water or water in solids would not count. And also the idea of purification, but many use dirty river water.

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        the idea of “washing”, or “being washed”, so solid water or water in solids would not count.

        You could make a solid (HA!) argument for exfoliative or percussive removal of debris from the kid’s head via scraping or knocking the nasty-bits free via the holy projectiles.

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      There was a picture going around during the pandemic of a religious leader performing a baptism with a super soaker. So, at least in some Christian denominations, that’s totally cool. And if Gatorade is okay…

      Can you baptize people with a supersoaker full of piss?

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      To answer your first question, AWOL is also used colloquially to describe people wildly or destructively ignoring the responsibilities of their job. So it’d be an apt descriptor if it was talking about a REAL priest but in this case it’s just flowery wording (presumably for alliteration)

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    Christians are remarkably inconsistent about what is natural and good or unnatural and bad.

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      True, although I’m guessing "you can’t baptize someone in Gatorade’ would be something virtually all Christians would think.

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        If my hasty checking is valid, there’s nothing in the Bible about holy water. There’s holding a baptism, but nothing about holy men blessing water to imbue it with the Holy Spirit.

        As such, I assume that any liquid blessed by a priest might be considered holy.

        Something something Godly Gatorade, Blessed Baja Blast etc.

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        Obviously, it’s gotta be Powerade Mountain Berry Blast or you just damned that person to hell.

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    Poorly trained AI if it didn’t realize to be safe in the priesthood you have to go after children.

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    Obviously you don’t baptise babies in Gatorade, you use Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

    These damn simpletons