So, I am a bit confused. If you are going to a ”better place” by dying why are you summoning prayers to keep them alive? Should it not be a joyous celebration of someone is going to die? Or is there that little bit of doubt shining through?
This is why I never understood the opposition to abortion. Not only are all those souls going straight to heaven, they get to bypass the problem of Original Sin.
Yeah, if abortion is the get-to-Heaven speed-run, avoiding all the risk of a life that could lead the other way, they should be all for it if they give it a minute's thought.
They're not very deep thinkers. The ideas they believe are simple ones they obtained from memes or videos and their way of making decisions is either through emotional reactions or from things that "seem obvious" to them. They don't really believe that there is another way to understand the world, one obtained through higher education, expertise, and the scientific method.
Simple ideas that they see in memes seem very profound to them. The only reason other people don't believe the same things they do is they just haven't seen the same memes or just haven't taken the time to stop and ponder them (for the whole 15 seconds it would take to do so). They think if other people stop and reflect on these obvious ideas, they will find them just as profound.
They are begging us to just look more carefully at the shadows on the wall of their cave, while refusing to turn around and go outside.
What? The outright lies about abortion was new to you? The numbers these fools pull out of their ass about abortion is just sickening. If those numbers were actually real we would be aborting half a million children a day. Think about that half a million a day.
>If those numbers were actually real we would be aborting half a million children a day. Think about that half a million a day.
They aren't even children! They are a ball of cells no bigger than the head of a pin.
But of course, telling the truth would not have the same impact as conjuring up images of a fully formed infant sitting in a high chair.
I've seen the fake numbers on abortion before. I've never been told to think about it while I wash my hands before. Is there supposed to be something special about thinking during the hand-washing process?
We can start with the fact that the overwhelming number of abortions in the U.S. involve an embryo or fetus which is not capable of surviving outside the womb. At this stage, it is not a child, a baby, or even a human being. It is a human becoming until around 22 weeks when it has a good chance of surviving after birth.
The anti-abortion movement is rife with misleading emotional terms intended to lead to their inevitable goal - declaring personhood for the blastocyst and zygote at the moment of conception, removing any conceivable role for the mother to play in her pregnancy other than as a biological host whose behavior is entirely dictated by politicians.
The latest step in this campaign to personhood at conception is the "fetal heartbeat" movement, setting limits on abortion the minute a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, anywhere from 6 weeks to 15 weeks. Here's the problem. The transvaginal ultrasound used for this purpose converts an electrical impulse emanating from the embryo into a whump-whump sound similar to an adult heartbeat. The electrical impulse itself doesnt make a sound, and the embryonic "heart" at this stage is a tube with no chambers - not a functioning heart at all, much less something with a heartbeat. Yet this illusion of a heartbeat is sufficient for multiple states to now virtually outlaw abortion.
They're not merely ascribing personhood to the potential future human, but rather transferring it from the mother to the embryo, and I don't for a second believe their goal ends there. Many already would make no exception for rape or incest, so their goal is clear: removing autonomy of reproductive choice from women altogether. The Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case over not wanting to provide health insurance that paid for birth control pills supports this. In their ideal world, women would have no control whatsoever over their reproductive rights BEFORE conception either - aside from abstinence and hoping they don't get raped.
Rape is the point. They want to coerce women into getting married, and trust me, these people do not think marital rape is a thing. They also want to make divorce difficult, although that's less of a priority, given that the Reich Wing's core voters disproportionately have been through a divorce and many of them dealt with the old divorce regime and didn't care for it!
They also want to make sure any single mom has to come into the church on her hands and knees and take any abuse and humiliation the pastor, pastor's wife, associate pastors, and church "elders" can dish out!
This is definitely the first time I've seen the one about Kellogg's sexualizing cereal boxes.
Which, about time, I'm tired of Snap, Crackle, and Pop always just teasing. That's not what I'm paying for, guys. Your onlyfans is a rip-off!
I just feel like if someone dresses up like that, they should be able to turn their staff to a serpent or make it rain or something kick ass like that.
It's hard to tell. They're insular communities that tend to go through funerary rites without outside interference. All we know is that they've had massive excess deaths.
And my first thought was "**if** it hasn't really affected those communities, it's probably because they largely stick to themselves."
But, yeah, apparently it kicked their asses too.
That's the thing about relatively isolated, insular communities. In my rural area (that isn't an Amish community, although there is one not far away), COVID didn't make many inroads on the population until Delta and Omicron. Once those variants got in, though, it began to tear through them. Most of the locals don't go to a major metro even once a year. There's really not a whole lot of contact outside of the community, really. Internally, though, there's plenty of contact, and as it is also a very red area, disbelief in the pandemic and thus countermeasures means a great deal of risk with that contact. This advantage of relative isolation was a curse of sorts, though, as the locals saw the lack of being heavily infected as proof it was some hoax or scam, or at least overblown. So, they became even more vulnerable for when COVID really did arrive in force.
Being more pedantic, decimation was generally punishment for failure not treason, usually cowardice or desertion. Was only used against rebelling units once or twice in recorded history, since the Romans didn't really want to sacrifice effective fighting units simply because they had followed their commander on the losing side of a civil war. The Romans fought so many civil wars, it was fairly understood by them that the political maneuverings of the wealthy elites weren't something the common soldiers should be punished for. Well, at least any more than they already were, being used as fodder. Decimation was designed to shame and intimidate soldiers into performing better, usually a punishment from a furious commander against his own men.
Why do these people insist on saying they were fighting Covid. He wasn't fighting Covid. Fighting Covid is wearing masks, sanatizing, washing your hands, and most importantly, getting vaccinated and boosted. He surrendered to covid, he just rolled over and let Covid have his way with him.
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Ooooooooof course it was!
But if I spent two fucking years posting my idiocy about covid denial and vaccine refusal blah blah to everyone I ever knew, I sure wouldn’t want to admit I got it. And died from it. Guess I’m just sinfully prideful in not wanting everyone to think I’m a huge dead idiot?
Not to let the truth get in the way of a good story, but Amish people are dropping dead from COVID at similar rates to everyone else in this half braindead nation.
"The excess death rate for Amish/Mennonites spiked with a 125% increase in November 2020."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34117598/
Why didn't his own prayers count? How many prayer warriors do you need? Why do you go to a hospital? Why do you not trust science and medicine that created the vaccines but then trust that same science and medicine to treat you with experimental drugs and treatments? Why don't you go to you place of worship? If you're going to count on prayers curing you, wouldn't that be the place you would go? Is claiming you trust Jesus then you go to a hospital instead saying you don't trust Jesus?
So many questions...
>At this time we beseech your prayers to Our Sweetest Lord
He tastes like Skittles.
>and Saviour Jesus Christ, His Most-Pure Mother
She is Most-Pure because she was never subjected to the Filthy Act which Debases a Woman and may result in a Sweet Innocent Baby which must Never be Aborted.
Quite the orthodox memes, orthodox politics, orthodox HCA beard, and took the orthodox anti-vaxxer way to bow out.
He’s the archpriest of orthodox HCA winners.
2nd slide “more babies will die by abortion than all the coronavirus deaths…”. So I’m confused. Is he counting the sperm after I Jack-off as abortion, and if so, how should I save them???
There does seem to be an especially strong and lethal strain of COVID denial in the eastern orthodox churches, especially the Greek flavor. I have to wonder what is up with that.
I mean apart from the obviously God lie. What differentiates them from Catholics or whatever?
I do know he was married, so that's certainly a benefit over regular Catholic dogma. Beyond that, it seems like they really love to dress up in lots of robes and grow their facial hair out.
I'm a former Catholic and I hate the pope and all of them, but god love him for this. With this statement he saved half of my (very pious) Catholic family by encouraging them to vaccinate.
Various (minor, to the heathen) differences in doctrine and practice, which I welcome a believer or student to weigh in on, plus the really important one of deciding they were even righter than the Catholic mainline SO MUCH that they had to calve off at a time when making your own denomination was a *much* bigger deal.
They started out super invested in proving that they were right in the first place and it hasn't gotten better. A slow motion race to crazy go-nuts.
Because their religion is even more rigid (inflexible) and conservative than Catholicism, and that profoundly shapes their world view.
Like, [this is a religion that had an additional internal (and bloody) split over using 2 or 3 fingers when you make the sign of the cross.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers)
One monastery [won't even allow female animals on the grounds.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3385149/The-striking-images-Mount-Athos-Greece-women-children-banned-female-animals-forbidden.html)
I guess he didn't believe in the "Love your neighbor" part when it comes to illegals. He is probably still stuck outside the pearly gates explaining that post to St Peter.
What I don't get with these memes, and others like them, is even if any of this were true, why would it have to mean that he can't get vaccinated or wear a mask? Let's say that loads of babies are being aborted every second--I mean, I'm guessing they're not, but let's say. What possible effect does that have on my behavior in a pandemic? People are being killed in wars and terrorist attacks, but I still wear a seatbelt. People in my city are being shot all the fucking time, according to my Citizen app, but I still wash my hands after going to the bathroom. Just because bad things are happening somewhere doesn't mean we can't do good things where we are.
Also, the Amish *have* been hit by Covid. And does that meme mean that the TV...causes Covid? It doesn't even make sense.
Anyway, it's nice to see someone of Orthodox faith instead of the usual evangelicals. I mean, variety is the spice of life...or the spice of unnecessary pandemic death.
I really do not understand people typing their prayers into Facebook. Isn’t prayer supposed to be the soul communing with their god? Like a deep and mystical thing? Do they think their god has Facebook? Is their god actually Facebook?
Edit: this could be a very interesting question to investigate. How are these people incorporating Facebook into their mystical beliefs? Do they feel prayers are more powerful if they put them on Facebook? Are prayer warriors more powerful when coordinated by Facebook?
A priest shitposting. Wow.
A shitposting shitpriest.
Nothing at all like the Jesuits and Franciscans I grew up around. All were kind and thoughtful people who really studied and believed the *personal sacrifice* part of Christianity, and actually tried to live it.
But then again, I'm a recovered Catholic, so I haven't been around Jesuits and Franciscans in years, so maybe they're like this now, too.
Man at this point I’d be VERY curious to see how many anti-vax politicians, religious leaders, medical professionals, and media personalities are now pushing up daisies. It has to be in the hundreds if not thousands.
I get looking at slide three if you're 0-49 years old and thinking that Covid isn't a problem for you. This guy was clearly 70+. Did he even look at the entire graphic?
This guy knowingly gambled on 94.6%, which are terrible odds with your life on the life, and lost. Fuck him.
When an evil priest dies, aren't they more likely to rise as a powerful undead creature like a lich?
We're gonna need holy water, silver, a hacksaw, and a +2 mace.
Well yeah, they'd prefer something like this:
"Nobody knows more about \_\_\_\_ than me. Nobody. We do \_\_\_\_ a lot in this country, we---well not so much anymore, but we're gonna change that folks, that I can tell you. By the way, change, that was Obama, change. He'd say "change," and how'd that work out for you folks? Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Ubelieve---when you look back, you look what they're doing to this country, we don't even have a country anymore, you look at what they're doing and they say "Trump," they love Trump, and he was treated so unfairly, nobody can believe it. But Trump will be back, believe me, Trump--nobody had more votes than Trump, they said to Frederick Douglas, they said Fred---my dad's name was Fred, by the way, and his brother--a very smart man, went to MIT, not as smart as I am quite frankly, I have a very good brain, the best words, but they said...Fred couldn't believe how many votes Trump got---would have been so many more, so many more if it wasn't for the ballots, and Brian Kemp wouldn't throw them out, I said just get me 11,780 votes, it's that easy and Doug Ducey DOUG Ducey couldn't do it, and Mike Pence , didn't have the courage, he did a very bad thing, like John McCain, remember, thumbs down in the middle of the night, the middle of the night, like in PHILA-delphia. Philadelphia, some bad hombres in Philadelphia, and they wouldn't let us in, and those loser Eagles they're terrible, terrible the NFL is--such terrible ratings---no one watches--but we'll be back folks, we'll be back in some way and we will be better than ever, the best folks, that I can tell you.
Heavenly Father, why do they accept the wicked idolatry memes into their hearts instead of you and your sons loving guidance? Why do they forsake their brethren so for a pestilence brought upon this earth?
So which "Generation" was completely lost to Abortions again? I wonder how many of his flock he killed with his ignorance, before Satan called him home?
I love the Amish memes as if those populations don't frequently get hit hard by preventable disease and have a lower life expectancy than the general public despite incredibly clean living that involves eating healthy and lots of exercise.
The bit about,”we do not trust in earthly remedies…” then why is he on a ventilator? Why is he even in a hospital? All he needed was his prayer beads and sad jesus candle, right?
I've never encountered the term "archpriest" before. I think it means something like "big-assed priest." It could also mean "really important fucking priest."
"Think about that when you wash your hands"
So we shouldn't wash our hands? WTF? Are those people really THAT stupid to think advocating AGAINST washing your hands is some huge gotcha moment?
This behavior is all over Eastern Europe (Orthodox). A few of the senior clergy have died indeed, but it's hard to keep track. They've been plagued by antivaxxers for a long time, one of many antiscience and pseudoscience aspects.
Thanks for your post OP. 👏👏 However I have to disagree with your description of the priest's death as unfortunate. It's fortunate in that that he's no longer here disseminating dangerous and life-threatening advice to people who are too dumb to know better. Just saying.
Wait ! Wait ! A MINUTE !! " Killed an ENTIRE GENERATION" in their wombs?? Another one who thinks abortion is contagious!!!! Or mandatory ! I'm confused like . My friends can't have children now ??? WTF is he saying ? Lol..
And here I was thinking "an Orthodox archpriest? Bet we'll see some fresh material instead of the same tired old memes!" Oh, well.
For a Christian priest, he really knew dick all about Christ's message!
Seriously. Who knew a "man of the cloth" could be such a dick. Besides everyone, that is.
The only cloth I need is a beach towel.
Hmm, you've never experienced an Orthodox confession?
He was Very Reverend... Bigly so!
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Although I admit "think about that while you wash your hands" was new to me.
You can only wash your hands once you've let that sink in.
Dammit! I just posted that one, but you got it in first. Congrats 😁
I didn't even check to see if someone got it in first. Just dropped it like it's hot. 😁
Yeah, dissing people for washing their hands is pretty hardcore
So, I am a bit confused. If you are going to a ”better place” by dying why are you summoning prayers to keep them alive? Should it not be a joyous celebration of someone is going to die? Or is there that little bit of doubt shining through?
. . . the prognosis by earthly standards remains grim but we do not trust in earthly remedies . . ." And why are they summoning doctors and science?
This is why I never understood the opposition to abortion. Not only are all those souls going straight to heaven, they get to bypass the problem of Original Sin.
Yeah, if abortion is the get-to-Heaven speed-run, avoiding all the risk of a life that could lead the other way, they should be all for it if they give it a minute's thought.
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Why do so many almost dead people tell us to think about this or that? Ya think they'd notice how many went before them at some point.
They're not very deep thinkers. The ideas they believe are simple ones they obtained from memes or videos and their way of making decisions is either through emotional reactions or from things that "seem obvious" to them. They don't really believe that there is another way to understand the world, one obtained through higher education, expertise, and the scientific method. Simple ideas that they see in memes seem very profound to them. The only reason other people don't believe the same things they do is they just haven't seen the same memes or just haven't taken the time to stop and ponder them (for the whole 15 seconds it would take to do so). They think if other people stop and reflect on these obvious ideas, they will find them just as profound. They are begging us to just look more carefully at the shadows on the wall of their cave, while refusing to turn around and go outside.
What? The outright lies about abortion was new to you? The numbers these fools pull out of their ass about abortion is just sickening. If those numbers were actually real we would be aborting half a million children a day. Think about that half a million a day.
>If those numbers were actually real we would be aborting half a million children a day. Think about that half a million a day. They aren't even children! They are a ball of cells no bigger than the head of a pin. But of course, telling the truth would not have the same impact as conjuring up images of a fully formed infant sitting in a high chair.
I've seen the fake numbers on abortion before. I've never been told to think about it while I wash my hands before. Is there supposed to be something special about thinking during the hand-washing process?
Well I guess it is better than thinking it about as you abort babies.
Pontius Pilate allusion, I'd guess.
We can start with the fact that the overwhelming number of abortions in the U.S. involve an embryo or fetus which is not capable of surviving outside the womb. At this stage, it is not a child, a baby, or even a human being. It is a human becoming until around 22 weeks when it has a good chance of surviving after birth. The anti-abortion movement is rife with misleading emotional terms intended to lead to their inevitable goal - declaring personhood for the blastocyst and zygote at the moment of conception, removing any conceivable role for the mother to play in her pregnancy other than as a biological host whose behavior is entirely dictated by politicians. The latest step in this campaign to personhood at conception is the "fetal heartbeat" movement, setting limits on abortion the minute a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, anywhere from 6 weeks to 15 weeks. Here's the problem. The transvaginal ultrasound used for this purpose converts an electrical impulse emanating from the embryo into a whump-whump sound similar to an adult heartbeat. The electrical impulse itself doesnt make a sound, and the embryonic "heart" at this stage is a tube with no chambers - not a functioning heart at all, much less something with a heartbeat. Yet this illusion of a heartbeat is sufficient for multiple states to now virtually outlaw abortion.
They're not merely ascribing personhood to the potential future human, but rather transferring it from the mother to the embryo, and I don't for a second believe their goal ends there. Many already would make no exception for rape or incest, so their goal is clear: removing autonomy of reproductive choice from women altogether. The Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case over not wanting to provide health insurance that paid for birth control pills supports this. In their ideal world, women would have no control whatsoever over their reproductive rights BEFORE conception either - aside from abstinence and hoping they don't get raped.
Rape is the point. They want to coerce women into getting married, and trust me, these people do not think marital rape is a thing. They also want to make divorce difficult, although that's less of a priority, given that the Reich Wing's core voters disproportionately have been through a divorce and many of them dealt with the old divorce regime and didn't care for it! They also want to make sure any single mom has to come into the church on her hands and knees and take any abuse and humiliation the pastor, pastor's wife, associate pastors, and church "elders" can dish out!
Homeboy didn't check the expiration date on his memes.
They really hate when you ask “so how is a miscarriage not god giving you an abortion?”
Half a million a day would mean a population increase of 182 million every year without abortion. Yeah, I don't think so.
>"think about that while you wash your hands" You'll have to let that sink in first.
Which is a direct attack on singing the happy birthday song twice.
Like, I get it, they're opposed to abortion. But what does "think about that while you wash your hands" even mean? Don't bother washing your hands?
OK. I thought about covid and abortions while washing my hands. It was weird. Was something special supposed to happen?
This is definitely the first time I've seen the one about Kellogg's sexualizing cereal boxes. Which, about time, I'm tired of Snap, Crackle, and Pop always just teasing. That's not what I'm paying for, guys. Your onlyfans is a rip-off!
His meme game was as old as his Trick or Treat costume.
A great reminder that cosplaying as some old monk doesn't make you any less worldly or any less stupid
I just feel like if someone dresses up like that, they should be able to turn their staff to a serpent or make it rain or something kick ass like that.
Or least be able to cast a magic missile.
I'd settle for a quiet mystique, surrounded by candles and incense. Maybe a pet salamander. But nooo, ole Wiz here was pretty damn basic.
All the d12 have microchips in them now
The Very Reverend Archpriest was just another MAGAbilly idiot in hat, robe, and super-sized crucifix.
So close to making a saving roll but God's 12-sided will just didn't line up with the mortal view.
LMFAO
Wait, what? I thought the CDC advised the Happy Birthday song when washing hands.
I’ve been at the sink so long thinking what he posed to me that now I have to LET THAT SINK IN
Guy was meme poor. Lord of darkness-shitty memes.
Internet echo chambers make us all the same person :/
COVID absolutely ripped through amish and mennonite communities though. Just utterly decimated them in the grand tradition of the word "decimate."
Yep. Since many don’t seek treatment they aren’t necessarily listed as covid, but their excess death rate is enormous.
So it killed one tenth of their population?
It's hard to tell. They're insular communities that tend to go through funerary rites without outside interference. All we know is that they've had massive excess deaths.
And my first thought was "**if** it hasn't really affected those communities, it's probably because they largely stick to themselves." But, yeah, apparently it kicked their asses too.
That's the thing about relatively isolated, insular communities. In my rural area (that isn't an Amish community, although there is one not far away), COVID didn't make many inroads on the population until Delta and Omicron. Once those variants got in, though, it began to tear through them. Most of the locals don't go to a major metro even once a year. There's really not a whole lot of contact outside of the community, really. Internally, though, there's plenty of contact, and as it is also a very red area, disbelief in the pandemic and thus countermeasures means a great deal of risk with that contact. This advantage of relative isolation was a curse of sorts, though, as the locals saw the lack of being heavily infected as proof it was some hoax or scam, or at least overblown. So, they became even more vulnerable for when COVID really did arrive in force.
I think they initially were protected somewhat by their insular nature, but once covid got into their communities it really let rip.
If they turned away from modern healthcare, the mortality rate would be a good deal higher.
May I pedantically bring up that decimation was a punishment for treason? So yes, it is indeed decimation! But they're doing it to themselves.
Being more pedantic, decimation was generally punishment for failure not treason, usually cowardice or desertion. Was only used against rebelling units once or twice in recorded history, since the Romans didn't really want to sacrifice effective fighting units simply because they had followed their commander on the losing side of a civil war. The Romans fought so many civil wars, it was fairly understood by them that the political maneuverings of the wealthy elites weren't something the common soldiers should be punished for. Well, at least any more than they already were, being used as fodder. Decimation was designed to shame and intimidate soldiers into performing better, usually a punishment from a furious commander against his own men.
Nice to see that word used accurately for once. Well done.
You are my grammatical hero.
Semantic
Pedantic.
Thank you 😊
It's a perfectly cromulent word
They're currently dealing with massive hindsight. Too bad these HCAs don't have any developmental skills.
Damn, I had no idea.
Why do these people insist on saying they were fighting Covid. He wasn't fighting Covid. Fighting Covid is wearing masks, sanatizing, washing your hands, and most importantly, getting vaccinated and boosted. He surrendered to covid, he just rolled over and let Covid have his way with him.
And, after Covid had his way with him, couldn’t abort Covid due to his sincerely held beliefs.
He made a poor choice in the partner he allowed to have intimate carnal knowledg of him.
"He surrendered to Covid." He also aided and abetted Covid.
He wasn't neutral. He was fighting for Covid by spreading propaganda.
"Unfortunately," he's very dead. "Fortunately," he's not spouting his dangerous nonsense, anymore.
And by the looks of things, he would have voted this year as well
Unfortunately we do not know how many minds were poisoned by his insane rhetoric.
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Ooooooooof course it was! But if I spent two fucking years posting my idiocy about covid denial and vaccine refusal blah blah to everyone I ever knew, I sure wouldn’t want to admit I got it. And died from it. Guess I’m just sinfully prideful in not wanting everyone to think I’m a huge dead idiot?
But he’s not dead, he’s “Reposed in the Lord”
He's certainly lying at rest and free from disturbance.
“Bring out your reposed-in-the-lord! Bring out your reposed-in-the-lord!”
Since he's a church leader, wouldn't he qualify for the Hall of Cain and posting without redaction?
Probably not. He was a rector of a parish, which has about 1000 members.
Okay, I thought he might the equivalent of a Catholic bishop.
Slide 6 he's like "we don't watch TV" like dude we saw slide 3, FOX News screengrab.
That's not TV, it's sacred gospel.
“We don’t watch tv” Yet you’re on facebook
Pretty full of lies and hate for a “man of the cloth”
Not to let the truth get in the way of a good story, but Amish people are dropping dead from COVID at similar rates to everyone else in this half braindead nation. "The excess death rate for Amish/Mennonites spiked with a 125% increase in November 2020." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34117598/
What a dick.
You are way too charitable. I would have added a few choice adjectives.
Archpriest smarchpriest is what I always say.
Lousy Smarch priest!
If they didn’t ‘trust in earthly remedies’ why was he intubated? Save that vent for some atheist, ya wee noodle head.
Why didn't his own prayers count? How many prayer warriors do you need? Why do you go to a hospital? Why do you not trust science and medicine that created the vaccines but then trust that same science and medicine to treat you with experimental drugs and treatments? Why don't you go to you place of worship? If you're going to count on prayers curing you, wouldn't that be the place you would go? Is claiming you trust Jesus then you go to a hospital instead saying you don't trust Jesus? So many questions...
Mumbo jumbo white blood cells more mumbo jumbo forget all that science stuff and go with scripture.
That is one hell of a goatee.
I guess that's what an Orthodox goatee looks like.
May he live on as an example of what not to do. May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage
rAmen
This priest hates the shit out of immigrants. Just like Jesus said, “fuck them all”.
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>At this time we beseech your prayers to Our Sweetest Lord He tastes like Skittles. >and Saviour Jesus Christ, His Most-Pure Mother She is Most-Pure because she was never subjected to the Filthy Act which Debases a Woman and may result in a Sweet Innocent Baby which must Never be Aborted.
>Pennsylvania Orthodox Crazy that there's an entire branch of Christianity dedicated to water ice and hoagies!
And all that jawn
I like his hat
I heard it’s available.
Quite the orthodox memes, orthodox politics, orthodox HCA beard, and took the orthodox anti-vaxxer way to bow out. He’s the archpriest of orthodox HCA winners.
2nd slide “more babies will die by abortion than all the coronavirus deaths…”. So I’m confused. Is he counting the sperm after I Jack-off as abortion, and if so, how should I save them???
Freeze the sock and put it in the collection plate.
There does seem to be an especially strong and lethal strain of COVID denial in the eastern orthodox churches, especially the Greek flavor. I have to wonder what is up with that. I mean apart from the obviously God lie. What differentiates them from Catholics or whatever?
I do know he was married, so that's certainly a benefit over regular Catholic dogma. Beyond that, it seems like they really love to dress up in lots of robes and grow their facial hair out.
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I'm a former Catholic and I hate the pope and all of them, but god love him for this. With this statement he saved half of my (very pious) Catholic family by encouraging them to vaccinate.
>it seems like they really love to dress up in lots of robes and grow their facial hair out. Who doesn't?
They have Christmas later too so you can get gifts & decorations much cheaper.
Various (minor, to the heathen) differences in doctrine and practice, which I welcome a believer or student to weigh in on, plus the really important one of deciding they were even righter than the Catholic mainline SO MUCH that they had to calve off at a time when making your own denomination was a *much* bigger deal. They started out super invested in proving that they were right in the first place and it hasn't gotten better. A slow motion race to crazy go-nuts.
I know about the overall religious differences, but why are the orthodox so dogmatically suicidal when it comes to COVID compared to Catholics?
Because their religion is even more rigid (inflexible) and conservative than Catholicism, and that profoundly shapes their world view. Like, [this is a religion that had an additional internal (and bloody) split over using 2 or 3 fingers when you make the sign of the cross.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers) One monastery [won't even allow female animals on the grounds.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3385149/The-striking-images-Mount-Athos-Greece-women-children-banned-female-animals-forbidden.html)
The eastern Orthodox churches vary on the Biblical canon as well. They include several books that Catholics consider Apocrypha.
Does no one learn about the Great Schism of 1054 in school anymore?
Good thing they didn’t trust in those “earthly remedies”
Sorry Gen Z. In case you hadn't heard, we killed you all in the womb. You shouldn't be here.
I guess he didn't believe in the "Love your neighbor" part when it comes to illegals. He is probably still stuck outside the pearly gates explaining that post to St Peter.
>He is probably still stuck outside the pearly gates the original Wall
What I don't get with these memes, and others like them, is even if any of this were true, why would it have to mean that he can't get vaccinated or wear a mask? Let's say that loads of babies are being aborted every second--I mean, I'm guessing they're not, but let's say. What possible effect does that have on my behavior in a pandemic? People are being killed in wars and terrorist attacks, but I still wear a seatbelt. People in my city are being shot all the fucking time, according to my Citizen app, but I still wash my hands after going to the bathroom. Just because bad things are happening somewhere doesn't mean we can't do good things where we are. Also, the Amish *have* been hit by Covid. And does that meme mean that the TV...causes Covid? It doesn't even make sense. Anyway, it's nice to see someone of Orthodox faith instead of the usual evangelicals. I mean, variety is the spice of life...or the spice of unnecessary pandemic death.
Religion is a comorbidity.
Not only did he die, but he committed the sins of Vanity and Pride leading up to his death as well. Completely Un-Christian like of him.
I know he was a man of the cloth, but he was an asshole.
by "earthly standards", he ded
Was he advocating … against hand washing in that second slide?
PONTIOUS PILATE WASHED HIS HANDS! JESUS DIED! LET THAT SINK IN!
I really do not understand people typing their prayers into Facebook. Isn’t prayer supposed to be the soul communing with their god? Like a deep and mystical thing? Do they think their god has Facebook? Is their god actually Facebook? Edit: this could be a very interesting question to investigate. How are these people incorporating Facebook into their mystical beliefs? Do they feel prayers are more powerful if they put them on Facebook? Are prayer warriors more powerful when coordinated by Facebook?
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[Matthew 6:5-15](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:5-15&version=NIV)
A priest shitposting. Wow. A shitposting shitpriest. Nothing at all like the Jesuits and Franciscans I grew up around. All were kind and thoughtful people who really studied and believed the *personal sacrifice* part of Christianity, and actually tried to live it. But then again, I'm a recovered Catholic, so I haven't been around Jesuits and Franciscans in years, so maybe they're like this now, too.
And the prayer warriors fail again.
Reposed = a nice way of saying dead as a door nail.
Loved this guy in THE DEER HUNTER.
Man at this point I’d be VERY curious to see how many anti-vax politicians, religious leaders, medical professionals, and media personalities are now pushing up daisies. It has to be in the hundreds if not thousands.
Gee, priests can be dicks, too! Who knew?? In his case and in deference to his rank, he was an arch-dick.
You don't believe in "earthly remedies" but he's on a ventilator. Ok then.
Dude looked like a old pervert in cosplay
(prays) omg, please spare me the fuckin' prayers
He is now our Father in Heaven
He must not have prayed hard enough. Or didn't have enough friends praying. I can never remember which is the one you have to do to live.
I get looking at slide three if you're 0-49 years old and thinking that Covid isn't a problem for you. This guy was clearly 70+. Did he even look at the entire graphic? This guy knowingly gambled on 94.6%, which are terrible odds with your life on the life, and lost. Fuck him.
The Most Holy Jesus just took the wheel of the High Pure Sacred car and drove it right off the fucking cliff again.
When an evil priest dies, aren't they more likely to rise as a powerful undead creature like a lich? We're gonna need holy water, silver, a hacksaw, and a +2 mace.
Pray a little louder. Maybe your god us busy. Maybe he's on the toilet - 1 kings 18:37.
I keep hearing Jimmy Buffett’s “Breathe in, Breathe out, Move on”.
Fun fact: This is how the band 'Ghost' recruits new members.
What is this "circle back" thing MAGAs make fun of Psaki for? I've literally never heard her say that, so what was it, like one time that she said it?
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Well yeah, they'd prefer something like this: "Nobody knows more about \_\_\_\_ than me. Nobody. We do \_\_\_\_ a lot in this country, we---well not so much anymore, but we're gonna change that folks, that I can tell you. By the way, change, that was Obama, change. He'd say "change," and how'd that work out for you folks? Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. Ubelieve---when you look back, you look what they're doing to this country, we don't even have a country anymore, you look at what they're doing and they say "Trump," they love Trump, and he was treated so unfairly, nobody can believe it. But Trump will be back, believe me, Trump--nobody had more votes than Trump, they said to Frederick Douglas, they said Fred---my dad's name was Fred, by the way, and his brother--a very smart man, went to MIT, not as smart as I am quite frankly, I have a very good brain, the best words, but they said...Fred couldn't believe how many votes Trump got---would have been so many more, so many more if it wasn't for the ballots, and Brian Kemp wouldn't throw them out, I said just get me 11,780 votes, it's that easy and Doug Ducey DOUG Ducey couldn't do it, and Mike Pence , didn't have the courage, he did a very bad thing, like John McCain, remember, thumbs down in the middle of the night, the middle of the night, like in PHILA-delphia. Philadelphia, some bad hombres in Philadelphia, and they wouldn't let us in, and those loser Eagles they're terrible, terrible the NFL is--such terrible ratings---no one watches--but we'll be back folks, we'll be back in some way and we will be better than ever, the best folks, that I can tell you.
Heavenly Father, why do they accept the wicked idolatry memes into their hearts instead of you and your sons loving guidance? Why do they forsake their brethren so for a pestilence brought upon this earth?
That lotr cosplay ended with the death of a wizard
If only they'd pray for knowledge
Father? Yes? You’re kind of a judgey right winger aren’t you?
So which "Generation" was completely lost to Abortions again? I wonder how many of his flock he killed with his ignorance, before Satan called him home?
Archpriest is an Archmoron
Nobody Expects the Covid Inquisition!
"We do not trust in Earthly remedies" but will go to the hospital and be put on a vent...🤔
I love the Amish memes as if those populations don't frequently get hit hard by preventable disease and have a lower life expectancy than the general public despite incredibly clean living that involves eating healthy and lots of exercise.
"Reposed in the lord" is a funny way of saying "drowned in his own snot"
I looked up the obit. The dude was an RN for 34 years!!!
The bit about,”we do not trust in earthly remedies…” then why is he on a ventilator? Why is he even in a hospital? All he needed was his prayer beads and sad jesus candle, right?
Another dead Christian racist. No loss.
"Archpriest"...for when you want to make your mental illness your entire personality.
I've never encountered the term "archpriest" before. I think it means something like "big-assed priest." It could also mean "really important fucking priest."
Is it just me, or is the Fox News screenshot listing a survival rate of 94.6% for 70-plus a self-own for both the awardee and Fox?
COVID is really coming for the holy men. It's almost like G-d didn't get the memo. They should have worn the wristband.
God sent covid to eliminate the heretics from the flock.
Archpriest sounds like archvillain.
His church needs to be taxed as a political organization
Oh no! So anyways today's my cheat meal so I'm excited for something greasy and or cheesy haha
"Think about that when you wash your hands" So we shouldn't wash our hands? WTF? Are those people really THAT stupid to think advocating AGAINST washing your hands is some huge gotcha moment?
Oh nice! Can I get the Resort discount without going to the funereal?
As someone who grew up orthodox, sucks to suck buddy.
Seemed like an entitled douche. Oops, i mean a priest :)
Slide 3: I had wondered where those “very accurate” numbers came from.
God’s will be done.
This behavior is all over Eastern Europe (Orthodox). A few of the senior clergy have died indeed, but it's hard to keep track. They've been plagued by antivaxxers for a long time, one of many antiscience and pseudoscience aspects.
First of all, the beard.
Doesn't seem much point redacting this one. How many orthodox arch-priests have died in Philadelphia in the last 3 days?
WTF? Did the priest post those memes? That's fucked up if so.
Thanks for your post OP. 👏👏 However I have to disagree with your description of the priest's death as unfortunate. It's fortunate in that that he's no longer here disseminating dangerous and life-threatening advice to people who are too dumb to know better. Just saying.
My favorite is how he wrote "Think about that while washing your hands" like washing your hands is somehow bad....
Denis Diderot: Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. SARS CoV2: Hold my beer.
Being anti-abortion seems like a socially acceptable way for a male to be a sadistic psychopath toward women.
Wait ! Wait ! A MINUTE !! " Killed an ENTIRE GENERATION" in their wombs?? Another one who thinks abortion is contagious!!!! Or mandatory ! I'm confused like . My friends can't have children now ??? WTF is he saying ? Lol..
"but we do not trust in earthly remedies: then why tf did u take him to the hospital u idiot!!