You bastards!

Careful making friends in the garden princess.

The heroes finds lich Jesus’ stash of nails, but only one is the true phylactery. The boldest knight smites that which he believes it to be, but nothing happens. Lich Jesus grins wickedly and incinerates the knight with a blast of unholy fire. He glances coyly at the other heroes, “He chose… poorly.”

Or in an (Italian) lake house.

We could bring back the elegance and pageantry of casting them off a cliff as tribute to Poseidon. Maybe ask him to cool down oceanic temperatures a little bit? Could actually work. Not because Poseidon is real, but because we’re eliminating some of the top contributors to climate change.

What if the idea that the Grail grants eternal life is a deliberate spin by the Church to turn it into a holy relic, when it’s true nature is that it is lich Jesus’ phylactery? From King Arthur to the Knights Templar, the quest for the Grail has been dedicated warriors seeking to eradicate his source of seeming eternal life. And it can only be destroyed with the weapon that destroyed his first corporeal form, the Spear of Destiny.

Can confirm. Watched a queer, middle aged former UCLA linebacker bash the shit-talking cowboy half his age’s face into a patio guardrail. There were teeth left behind as cowboy got drug off unconscious by his homies.

Someday paleontologists will discover doomer memes from the Pleistocene, the Cretaceous, the Permian, the Devonian, and the Ordovician all predicting the same thing: “this is it, the end!”.

Hmm, perhaps Sam Altman is just a Ba’al clone?

Starlink is Elon, Starship is Mickey Thomas, Stargate is Ra.

Yeah, the debate over the nature of how exactly sacrament works and what the purpose is not a singular belief in Christianity and like the Trinity is one of the things that has been debated within councils and philosophy endlessly. The Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are the main two that hold it physically becomes the body and blood of Jesus. The big Protestant churches run the gamut of “body and blood is present but it’s still bread and wine” to “present in spirit” to “this is bread and wine; the act is symbolic”. That’s also why some can substitute grape juice or water and the act is still valid.

2 Peter 1:4 - “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature,having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”

John 17:21-23 - “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”

Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation, circa 318–325 CE - “He became man so that we might become god.”

The concept is called theosis and is developed largely from those two verses and was further contemplated by early Catholics. Whether you become one with the godhead, like unto the godhead, or, such as in Mormonism, can literally become a god-being (though not the God) yourself varies by sect. Most agree that the communion does infer some sort of divine combining of one’s self with the god power. You can also see this concept in the idea of “invite Jesus into your heart”, or the gift of the Holy Spirit. Somehow some part of god is dwelling in you and you are a part of god.

The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space. Cold-riveted girders…with cores of pure selenium.

Sacrifice is a common theme in a lot of religions. The victim is offered to the diety, killed, and then consumed; the followers get whatever they were after, which could be atonement, a blessing, grace, etc. In Christianity theology, the man-god Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice, ending the need to attain atonement with animal sacrifice. His instructions were to ritualistically eat bread (his body) and drink wine (his blood) as the atonement ritual. Different sects have differing opinions on where this is purely symbolic (most Protestants) or if through transubstantiation it literally becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus (Catholics). At the end of the day, you’re either symbolically or literally eating Jesus. By the doctrine though, it’s not pure cannibalism since Jesus is a god incarnate, but that’s what theologically makes it a step up over other forms of sacrifice; eat god, become like god.

Their holy book is filled with rape, murder, genocide, incest, and ritualized cannibalism in the name of their god. It ends with them going to heaven while everyone else gets burned for eternity. There probably are decent people who get involved, but their decency does not stem from their religion. It’s a psychological coping mechanism that has become a good old boys club that holds itself as morally unaccountable to anyone but god for their actions. In the real world, people expect others to either not be an asshole, or if they are, actually atone by paying the consequences and change their ways, not just whisper some words to the sky and announce “all good, I’m forgiven”. You can insert a lot of other religions in here- do wrong, be sheltered from consequences by your cult, or if even they can’t protect you, double down on refusing to take accountability because you don’t think you answer to other humans.

This kind of gift is why Jean cucks Scott for Logan.

I think you’re right no one else had the personality to form the cult, but the behind the scenes player have gotten where they need to be and are embedded enough they don’t need what follows to be another Trump. Elon is too egotistical to control, Vance has no charisma but will comply (better than Pence did). It won’t matter if the cult dissolves, they played their part, and even their objections won’t matter.

Well isn’t it your lucky day! In fact it was Jim Carrey.