• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    The priest isn’t being body tackled for wearing a mask, so, despite the gun, this is not in the United States.

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    3 days ago

    Took me a minute to figure out that the gun is an infrared thermometer. At least I hope it is.

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      I’m pretty sure it’s “holy water” in a squirt gun. As if aquatic born pathogens don’t exist.

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        I’m pretty sure this is entirely about covid, and as far as religion goes it’s pretty sensible. Priest looks catholic given the robe, stolle (iirc easter season stolles are always worn in baptisms), and general vibe. I assume the Magesterium gave specific instructions on how to perform sacraments during the covid lock downs. This wasn’t catholicism’s first pandemic and they’ve already done the whole “make it worse to beg to be spared” thing that a lot of protestants did during covid.

        If it was about immunocompromisation the priest would likely be scrubbed down and using freshly blessed freshly sanitized water.

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          You seem to know your way around baptisms. I’ve heard that in an emergency, a priest can sanctify a mother’s amniotic fluid to baptize a fetus in utero. Couldn’t a priest also sanctify a person’s own blood?

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            Probably. Priests have a lot of room to improvise in emergencies. I know many keep holy water in their vehicles in case they witness an accident and have to perform an emergency baptism or last rites.

            General rules are if it can wait to be done with water it should.

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        I didn’t figure out that the person was a priest until someone explained about holy water.

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          Listen, America is a backwards country in a lot of ways, but we dont have our physicians wearing robes and stolles yet. Thats for project 2026

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          Ohh, yes! I’ve felt that culture shock before. I think it’s because American churches don’t look like churches. At least they don’t generally build traditional cathedrals unless they’re Catholics. They have what feels like office spaces with a choir room.

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              Oh, don’t get me wrong, they’re pleasantly bland. It’s just not what I used to believe churches were like before I visited. Lol