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[–] 46 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Imagine spending your whole life as a priest and getting cred in the faith and you die in such a way that every single person thinks God had to have killed you for some awful sin. Like, there is automatically an assumption that this guy was touching kids or something.

Like, I'm an atheist, I don't believe that. I think that they should have secured the cross better and he died because of poor maintenance.

But if you're Catholic. There is no way to not read into far too much. Dude will forever be remembered as the guy God dropped a cross on.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    But if you're Catholic. There is no way to not read into far too much. Dude will forever be remembered as the guy God dropped a cross on.

    You're assuming a coherent world-view there. I don't know how well that pairs with being Catholic in the first place, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Nah, the main assumption is that Catholics love considering some event as divine intervention and that human beings love gossip. That whole church is whispering about it from one person to another.

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    [–] 41 points 1 week ago

    I'm not religious but if I was? Bruh.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    A site that denies access when rejecting "optional" cookies. That's a new one

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    If you're quick you can hit stop and keep the popup from loading. Or you can just turn off javascript.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    And that’s why you don’t just throw away that wall anchor, screw and loop that attaches your furniture or cross to the wall.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Good grief. They posted the video. I get that it was live streamed when it happened but reposting it? Just seems bad. People don’t need to see another human die.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Honestly, this has become the standard attitude towards human life from most Christians these days. More people than I realize seem to suspect that he deserved it, just because they can't accept this as a freak accident and think this was a smiting.

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    [–] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Crazy that they uploaded the actual video of it happening

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    I was shocked by that as well. What an illustration into how rotten the world has become. A mainstream news site just casually posting here guys watch the cool way this dude dies live on camera.

    Unnecessary, disrespectful, voyeuristic. Like death porn for the masses

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    That air force guy who died in Texas is getting the same treatment.

    They really sang the national anthem, killed a troop on the field, and then played football on the turf still soaked in his blood.

    Social media is covered with videos from every angle of his body crumpling into the ground. You could probably stitch them all together into a grotesque 360-degree bullet-time of his death.

    Imagine serving in the Air Force for 15 years and then losing your life at the Alamodome, in service to the social media hype cycle.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    It's like Christians must have faith, but every church also have a lightening rod.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    it was his time. only god knows what to expect next because it's his plan.

    evidently his plan includes allowing murderous psychopathic pedophiles to run the world and killing priests in the most ironic ways.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (1 child)
  • Maybe God just feels like monkey's pawwin' it once in awhile. Maybe at this instant, the priest was thinking in his head, "God, may I be with you!" God was like, "wish granted."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Priest dies tragically... Here is the video

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    What was it again, what they always say? Oh yes, I remember: God works in mysterious ways.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago*

    Go to holy jail. BONK!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago*

    Oh they just show that guy dying in the link

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    That is some real Omen type stuff

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    Thy will be done 🙏

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    That is horrible. For the people that loved him, for the people that witnessed it and especially for the kids that had to watch it.

    Put that swing of the cross, the pin point precision of the hit, that is also incredibly funny.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

    I'm not religious and religious people are messed up, but that is awful.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Crossed over, more like crossed under.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    JESUS CHRIST!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Mysterious ways, indeed...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    He’ll be back up and walking in three days.

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    What was it he said that made his god immediately send him?

    Surely his followers would see some kind of profound insight into the interpretation of their scripture because of this, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    And the truth shall set you free!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    He was the parish priest of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    In the words of Ecuadorian-born Mike Judge as Monsignor Martinez from Los Dias Y Las Noches de Monsignor Martinez, "Vaya con Dios".

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