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[Free]

Father Thomas McHale, the priest at Our Blessed Lady Immaculate in Blackhill, Consett, shocked parishioners when he took to the pulpit on Good Friday and told the congregation that Jesus had died with an erection.

He is risen from the dead!

 

[Casey Pelous]

Did you say resurrection? The Catholic priest and the shock sermon

Father Thomas McHale has been reprimanded for telling parishioners in Co Durham some unexpected claims about the crucifixion

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

I must admit I'm very curious to know what theological point he was arguing and his basis for believing in The Holy Boner.

 

[Free]

I must admit I'm very curious to know what theological point he was arguing and his basis for believing in The Holy Boner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_erection

In The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, art historian and critic Leo Steinberg alleges that a number of Renaissance era artists depicted Jesus Christ with an emphasis on his genitalia — including after the crucifixion with a post-mortem erection — a motif which Steinberg named ostentatio genitalium. The artwork was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church for several centuries.

It's a thing, especially amongst those who are crucified, or hanged, or what have you.

Autopsy of a crucifixion

Drawing on his studies in forensic pathology, David Instone-Brewer explores the science of crucifixion.

www.premierchristianity.com

People are killed and kill themselves in many inventive ways that never make the papers. I was surprised at how many die accidentally though suffocation as a means of sexual gratification. This strange physiological reaction was the final shame of a crucified man: erection and ejaculation due to the slow suffocation.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I wonder if any of that is related to the euphemism 'la petite mort'...

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

American Airlines says that it's a 9-year-old girl's fault that a flight attendant recorded her in an airplane bathroom:

When you see a headline like that your first thought is usually like "okay, that's obviously BS, what is really being said?" but no:

“Any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device,” the filing said.

The girl in question is one of several victims under the age of 14 who were secretly recorded by a flight attendant while using the lav. The flight attendant was arrested a few months ago after his actions made another would-be victim on a flight suspicious, leading to her discovering a phone the attendant had concealed in the restroom right before she was to use it. After he was arrested, videos of several victims were found on his phone. The girl being blamed by the lawyers was one of them, and the first whose family has sued the airline over the incident.

 

[Isabeau]

Horrid.

Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession

Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.

www.sbsun.com

 

[Isabeau]

Man, that’s wild.

Teenager survives 400ft fall from Washington state canyon

Matthew Welander, the West Mason fire chief, told local news station KING5 his team had practice saving the boy by “hauling dead bodies out” from the same place in the past.

Welander called the teen “crazy lucky” and urged extreme caution when around the bridge. He blamed the need for rescues on the lack of respect for nature.

Rescuers said about five to seven people fall off the bridge every year, and there are 20 dead bodies recovered for every person found alive at the bottom.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I wonder if any of that is related to the euphemism 'la petite mort'...

The way I've always read it: Yes.

 

[Isabeau]

'Serial Slingshot Shooter': Man, 81, Arrested for Allegedly Terrorizing Neighborhood for 10 Years

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

'Serial Slingshot Shooter': Man, 81, Arrested for Allegedly Terrorizing Neighborhood for 10 Years

And reading the name "Prince Raymond King" had me checking the URL of the article to make sure it wasn't the Onion.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

'Serial Slingshot Shooter': Man, 81, Arrested for Allegedly Terrorizing Neighborhood for 10 Years

What the hell:

Elderly slingshot suspect bonds out of jail; dies the next day

 

[Free]

A-mazing.

Controversial Chick-fil-A Summer Camp Charges Kids $35 To Work At The Restaurant

Campers will learn customer service skills, how to take an order, and other tasks.

www.delish.com

A Louisiana Chick-fil-A is stirring up some major controversy after the restaurant announced its summer camp for children. Taking place July 22-24, the camp is targeted to kids between five and 12 years old and gives them a chance to learn various tasks that Chick-fil-A workers do. It will take place at a Chick-fil-A location in Hammond, Louisiana, and campers will choose one of three days to attend.

According to a Facebook post about the camp, the activities that campers will do include: learning dining room hosting and customer service skills, learning how to take an order, learn how to bag an order, and making your own Ice Dream cone or cup.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Man that's some cynical shizz.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Man that's some cynical shizz.

No, no. It's fine. The management consists of god-fearin' kreestchuns.

The male kids can even buy their freedom by paying an amount equal to the total wages of a hired servant over the entire period remaining until the next Jubilee. (The girl slaves, not so much.)

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Minecraft just proves that children yearn to work in the mines.

 

[Free]

Minecraft just proves that children yearn to work in the mines.

Chicken mines?

 

[Isabeau]

I’d never heard of anthrax triangle.

Report: Texas rancher contracted anthrax after handling dead lamb

The report stated that before being diagnosed, the rancher handled a lamb that died unexpectedly on his ranch. He butchered the lamb, that seasoned and cooked its meat for dinner. Four people, including the rancher, ate the cooked lamb's meat.

Tests on the rancher's serum done by the CDC confirmed exposure to the bacteria that causes anthrax. Plus, the CDC found the same bacteria in the DNA of the cooked lamb's meat, which was tested after being stored frozen.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for believing women can serve as pastors

Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting had voted overwhelmingly to boot a Virginia church from its ranks because of its declaration that it believes women can serve in any pastoral ministry.

apnews.com

The SBC is seriously one fucked up, backwards-assed organization steeped in sexism and bigotry. And they wonder why people are leaving the Church in droves!

Edit: stupid autocorrect changed sexism to seismic. Ugh.

 

[Isabeau]

How a Family of Taekwondo Instructors Stopped a Sexual Assault

Simon An had just arrived with his parents, his older sister and his younger brother at his family’s taekwondo school in Katy, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon when they heard a scream so loud it reminded him of a horror movie.

That was when the An family, all of whom are taekwondo instructors, sprang into action and stopped a sexual assault at the business next door, delivering the attacker to the police.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez of Harris County confirmed the account in a post on Facebook and thanked the An family, calling them “a group of good Samaritans.”

 

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