I remember a news story a long while ago where Catholics were starting to feel pretty uneasy about kids all sipping wine from the same vessel during First Communion or whatever and a priest interviewed insisted the Eucharist was naturally sterile because, body and blood of Christhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1237149107925291009 …
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He was all like "hurr durr there's no records of anyone getting sick from the Eucharist in all of human history" and it's like. Do you know how hard it is to decisively prove food contamination Also do you know how easy it is to smear a communion wafer on an agar plate
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Though as a misotheist and a dystheist and a student of history I have to say If people are catching a disease at a church it's only because God wants his servants to spread it to decent people so he can watch them die
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Replying to @Batshua @Nymphomachy
Just be glad that very few churches still literally practice the "holy kiss" with their fellow worshipers after communion as described in the New Testament (Among Americans it's usually a handshake, which according to epidemiologists is only a bit better than a kiss, but still)
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Lol the retcon in Star Wars is that Rey and Ben exchanged a "holy kiss of peace" to celebrate the balancing of the Force In the correct and traditional manner (full lip contact for five seconds)
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Can you say you've really fully accepted your brother or sister in Christ in a spirit of overflowing love if you don't use tongue
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Lol I'm looking this up right now and the Amish are among the groups that insist on doing the traditional kiss right on the mouth and say that churches who've replaced the kiss with the handshake or the Joe Biden shoulder hug have fallen from Christ
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Apparently to quell any notion of prurient intentions behind the holy kiss, they seat men and women separately during services, and men only kiss men and women only kiss women (the "brother kiss" and "sister kiss") ... Huh
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Oh, and fun fact, old school leftist movements adopted this tradition and the spirit of universial brotherhood it represents wholesale The "socialist fraternal kiss"
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Usually on the cheek, but here's USSR General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and GDR General Secretary Erich Honecker going straight to first basepic.twitter.com/VmjAH7WkZG
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