Anti masker ejected from Mass?:

[Kingofalldems]

You decide.

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. Get him out of there, then forgive him if he repents

Nice job by the congregants though. He’s lucky he didn’t get clocked like the other guy. I guess they restrained them selves because it was church.

[DBoon]

4. Assuming he is Catholic, he would not "repent"

He would instead undergo the sacrament of confession, sincerely ask forgiveness of God (and God knows when you are bullshitting), then perform the required penance as assigned by the priest.

I would hope the penance would involved working with recovering Covid patients

[Walleye]

5. That is an excellent suggestion

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. This would be the perfect pennace.

"I would hope the penance would involved working with recovering Covid patients"

And then proclaim...."God have mercy on your soul"

[Grokenstein]

14. But his idea of "working with recovering COVID patients"

would be telling them they were never sick in the first place because he's done the research and blip blap blop yip yap yop.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. True.

My Dad once told me, don't argue with an idiot that is sure he is right. I tend to agree.

I can pretty much scope these folks within a couple of minutes of communication and then vector off their radar.

[Bucky]

17. Your dad's advice would probably save me hours on facebook

[DBoon]

16. I was going to say work with dying Covid patients

but there are infectious disease protocols that do not allow this

[7wo7rees]

25. Gravedigger then?

Amen.

[TigressDem]

21. Actually, to repent and feel sorrow for what one has done wrong leads to confessing said wrong.

I grew up Catholic and grew away during Pope Benedict's time.

But, the way I was taught is that people really want to keep their spiritual life clear and free from even sinful thinking because that often leads one into the path of those bad ideas. So when one has actually DONE something wrong, that is a big confession.

Confession was available weekly as a kind of spiritual check in and often it was about losing patience and/or saying something hurtful, white lies, internal rebellion. Once in my teen years I was really mad at my Mom for whatever, and our priest also was a trained therapist and said, "That happens to a lot of kids" and proceeded to help me find better ways to deal with my issues so I could have a better relationship with her and still grow and be independent.


https://www.hostcatholiclynn.org › penance

What are the 3 essential acts of the penitent?
The sacrament of Penance is a whole consisting in three actions of the penitent and the priest's absolution. The penitent's acts are repentance, confession or disclosure of sins to the priest, and the intention to make reparation and do works of reparation.

https://www.hsccatl.com/Downloads/CMS/HowTo/HowToGoToConfession.pdf


It seems archaic and namby pamby in some ways, but the heart of the matter is to really be a better person and get rid of anything that drags a person in hateful or disrespectful behavior.

[OAITW r.2.0]

23. Back in the day.....

I was an alter boy and did the whole Catholic treatment because....alter boy. I always felt uncomfortable confessing to the Priest that obviously knew me. My "sins" were pretty benign, in retrospect, but I spent a lot of time figuring how to confess to reasonable sins without getting the Priest concerned about my soul.

[TigressDem]

24. Did you have the "Confessional Booth" with the screen or the face to face kind?

I did both.

Even in the booth, you had to figure, the priest probably knew who you were in a small parish, but face to face, that was a bit of a shock.

Still after a bit, it made the priest less of an authority figure per se and more of someone who could show they cared about you.

I don't even remember many specific "sins" but I got the idea they thought I was "reaching" for stuff and wasn't really bad enough to be at confession most of the time.

I know I had a wicked sarcastic streak and often would be really sorry for something I said that ripped someone apart, though that was my way to avoid actual fights a lot of the time. So the lesser of two evils maybe, but still felt bad when I walked into Church knowing what I'd said.

[Skittles]

2. no sense of decency or respect with these folk

they behave just like their fucked up cult leader would

[Walleye]

6. I've never seen anything like that kind of behavior in church

I’ve been to a lot of different church services. I used to work for a newspaper and my shift was Sunday morning. I think I’ve been to every religion we have here. Never saw any violence or yelling

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Think of a 8 YO in a grown up male body.

Intellectually and morally, they have not progressed.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Hang a sign on him "Dumbshit walking here"

[dflprincess]

7. As lapsed as I am

to see someone behave like that at Mass and on the Altar still has a shock value for me. If only my grandma had been there, she could of turned him to stone with the look she would have given him.

(ThoughI liked how the altar boys kept their hands in the prayer position the whole time.)

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Me, too....practicing ex for 45 years.

I blame it on my Jesuit Education. They taught me to think.

[dflprincess]

20. I've assumed that Pope Francis being a Jesuit

Is the reason the conservatives can't stand him. (And weren't the Berrigans Jesuits?)

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. I believe Dan was...

Phil was a different order. Both were into Social Justice. Them and Mike Harrington had a huge impact on my thinking.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. I wish my folks and SO's from 40+ years past were still around....

their collective minds would be blown at these displays of self-centered ignorance and support for criminals.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. So good, I watched it twice. Just another anti-vax, anti-socialist.

Love it when a congregation comes together to make a meaningful contribution to the church.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

13. Hope they walked him off the church grounds. Damn lucky guy wasnt

..armed with a gun or knife --hope they put in place security precautions bc he'll be back..this time to do harm.

[BoomaofBandM]

18. I like that the entire congregation is masked.

[sakabatou]

19. And this is why my congregation (Jewish) does sabbath via camera.

[Uncle Joe]

26. That reminds me of a scene from the movie "O'Brother Where Art Thou"

Thanks for the thread Kingofalldems.