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haruka89 · 2 days ago

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Seems like they forgot the "celebrate" part in "celebrate mass".

One of my favorite things about the difference between Protestant denominations and Catholicism is that Protestants made their whole thing being So Fucking Boring(tm) and normal that if you were raised around Protestants with little to no connection to the Catholic Church when you find out about all the saints and rituals and bones and shit it genuinely comes off as a little like...pagan isn't the right word exactly but you know what I mean? Like for my entire life good Christians sat on folding chairs in a beige basement eating shitty donuts from Albertsons and told me liking Pokemon and Halloween made me a sinner and then I go to see an old Catholic church and there's just like. A fucking ancient corpse in the room?? That everyone is praying over??? Like????? And THIS is actually the religion all the "Pokemon normalizes devil worship" guys originally came from several hundred years ago??????

It's wild okay. It's just wild.

#christianity #i'm lutheran and my godmother is catholic #until my tenth birthday or so i was in more catholic masses (plural of mass?) than lutheran #let me tell you how very weird it is to hear about all the different protestant denominations the US has #for more than a decade protestant = lutheran for me #(not helped by the fact that other denominations are a lot more rare and less visible here)#(i think they're also a lot less organized and institutionalized here than lutherans and catholics)#(then again i'm also in fuck-you-pope-that's-bullshit central and watching in real time as another schism builds up among the catholics)#(it's kinda hilarious to bishops tell the vatican to piss off. not verbally; of course. by removing rules the catholics are unhappy about.)#*to watch bishops #now that i think about it #i don't think we do christianity quite the way the others do it in general #kinda makes me want to look up some statistics but nope i've got enough things to juggle as is

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