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snarkivist ([info]snarkivist) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-07-18 20:20:00


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What's Latin for "wank"?
I guess you could say that this is from the Jesus fandom. One of the two recent pieces of news out of the Vatican that pissed off most of the planet was that individual priests will be free to celebrate the Tridentine Mass whenever they damn well please. The Tridentine Mass is the Latin service used worldwide by all Catholics from the 16th century until about 1970. The structure of the service itself is different, not just what language it's celebrated in.

(Full disclosure: Yes, I am one of those whackjobs who attends this kind of Mass.)

Well, this has caused such global waves of wank in the press and on the Internets that the entire planet is red and sore by now. I have many examples, but my favorite so far has got to be this innocent-looking article from Indianapolis. All would have been well...if this paper didn't have forums attached to every article.

"A dead language for a dead god. How appropriate,"
one commenter said oh-so-cleverly. And...they're off! Catholics aren't Christians! Protestants don't understand history! Anyone who believes in God is a fucking moron! Pedophile priests!  FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!!11

I'd pick out highlights, but really...there's too much here.






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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-07-19 01:49 am UTC (link)
Ah, man, the transubstantiation v.s. consubstantiation debates are a thing of beauty when they really get revved up.

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[info]magic_lilybean
2007-07-19 01:25 pm UTC (link)
That, and faith vs. works. I stumbled into that by accident one day as a new Catholic. I had no idea! I also may have one day mentioned Catholicism being "the original church" to someone who is Orthodox. It seems so funny now, but at the time I had no idea people fought over this stuff. I learned better right quick, though.

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