• Flying Squid
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    356 months ago

    Is there anything in the Bible that says you can’t use Gatorade in a baptism? What if it’s a baptismal emergency and there’s no water, but a six-pack of Gatorade Arctic Blitz?

    • Ghostalmedia
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      266 months ago

      It’s got electrolytes. It’s what the body of Christ craves.

    • @[email protected]
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      176 months ago

      The Very Serious brand of Christianity that I came out of as a kid, the church of Christ, condemned people to hell if they weren’t fully immersed when baptized.

      You know, among other things like letting women talk or using instruments or during worship.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      So. Per my dad (priest) yeah, if you really wanted to.

      I didn’t ask the obvious follow up, BUT YES presumably one could bless the stream and do some golden baptisms.

  • @[email protected]
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    296 months ago

    It was giving away the game:

    “Yes, my friend,” Father Justin responded. “I am as real as the faith we share.”

      • AmidFuror
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        96 months ago

        You want to baptize using water? You mean like in the toilet?

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      Notice your licensing thing on the bottom there - would you be willing to chat with me more about it? Curious how you set it up, what its about, etc. Feel free to dm if that feels more appropriate!

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Father Justin was also a hardliner on social and sexual issues.

      “The Catholic Church,” it told us, “teaches that masturbation is a grave moral disorder.”

      No, I would say Justin is about the same level of strange in the ways that matter