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It's not Halloween, it's Reformation Day

Also, no more phylacteries in Pathfinder

Rohan Salmond
Nov 3, 2021
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This week’s edition of Modern Relics is very ~~~spoookyyyyy~~~ I hope you are ok with jump scares because I never am!

Twitter avatar for @joshcarlosjoshJ.R.R. Jokin' @joshcarlosjosh
Church, this needs to stop 😂
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November 1st 2021

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Also, here’s your reminder to join the Modern Relics Discord if you haven’t done so already! Conversation picks up around the publication of each newsletter, but you’re always welcome to start a conversation between editions.

Also there was wayyy too much stuff to fit in this edition, so I’m going to pop some of the stuff that got cut in the relevant channels over the next week.


Happy Reformation Day!!

A funny joke everyone enjoys is when you pretend to be celebrating Reformation Day instead of Halloween. 

via @HighChurchQueen

Except I think one of my Catholic colleagues may have taken me a bit too seriously. Sorry! I actually feel a bit weird about Reformation Day because I’m a Uniting Church guy and we believe in Christian unity! Anyway, on Reformation Day some friends and I got together to watch some scary movies, because there’s not thing scarier than schism.

Twitter avatar for @RJSalmondAdvent anticipator Rohan Salmond @RJSalmond
Compare the pair
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October 31st 2021

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Also, my boyfriend dressed up as a priest and we Young Pope’d him.

Sorry sorry I’m trying to delete it. How about I distract you with some real Halloween posts that are still kind of religious:

Twitter avatar for @prestovisionwhale 🐳 @prestovision
i’ll ask you one more time where is my fuckin hairbrush
me looking absolutely terrifying in a green morph suit. over it i am wearing a green shirt with larry the cucumber’s face on it. i am also wearing a towel. completely larry’s iconic “oh where is my hairbrush” look. the hand not holding my phone is behind my back…
my other hand is not in front of me, revealing a gun. i mean business. this was larry’s only hairbrush. his livelihood or something
close up of larry in a towel pointing the gun at the screen. give him his hairbrush, or else

October 30th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @theRevPeterWongThe Rev. Peter Wong @theRevPeterWong
Mini-me at our day school for Halloween! Love this kiddo!
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October 29th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @LeahBSassysassy seminary student @LeahBSassy
PSA:
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November 2nd 2021

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What’s going on here

Twitter avatar for @conspiraboomersCursed Conspiraboomer Images @conspiraboomers
The newer vids on this channel are pretty weird

September 1st 2019

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I honestly cannot tell if this is an anti-Catholic parody of Catholicism or a kooky ubertrad Catholic conspiracy group.

Related: Did you know that the heresy of believing Mary is a goddess or part of the Godhead is called Collyridianism?


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The Pope and the President

President Biden was in Rome for the G20 summit. Already in the neighbourhood, he popped in to see the Pope for a chat.

Twitter avatar for @cwwhiteNCRChristopher White @cwwhiteNCR
The Pope and the President setting a record for time spent alone together meeting at the Vatican today. Photos: Vatican Media
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October 29th 2021

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I don’t really have the space to get into it, but according to Biden, the Pope gave him the all-clear to keep receiving communion. The folks over at The Pillar are a little skeptical of the President’s account, but a few days after their meeting, Biden received the sacrament in the Pope’s own diocese.


Marilyn Manson at Sunday Service

Marilyn Manson has been spotted in a prayer circle with Justin Bieber and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West). 

Twitter avatar for @RapDoseKENNY BEAR @RapDose
marilyn manson is currently leading a prayer circle with justin bieber and kanye west
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October 31st 2021

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It happened at Ye’s Sunday Service, the star-studded Christian service event that’s invite-only so… not a church then?

Marilyn Manson is an honorary priest in San Francisco’s First Church of Satan and once described Christianity as “oppressive” and “fascism”. So it’s a bit of a surprise! Maybe his sudden u-turn is in response to the accusations of abuse by his ex-fiance and several other women.

Twitter avatar for @RapDoseKENNY BEAR @RapDose
justin bieber just said "we cast out any demonic presence on this day in the name of jesus" and marilyn manson nodded dfkjsfnksdjdnfksdnkfdsjnfdk
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October 31st 2021

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No more phylacteries in Pathfinder

Tabletop role-playing games were written by people, and sometimes those people had less-than-PC ideas that got written into the games themselves. For example, some fantasy races have inherent traits.

A lich (GPL license)

Recently, games like Dungeons and Dragons have taken steps to unpick some of these ideas from the game’s fabric, although the changes haven’t been as radical as some players and former employees would like to see.

This extends to religious stereotypes, including antisemitic ones. Popular D&D podcaster Eric Silver points out several parts of the game he identifies as antisemitic or culturally apropriative.

Now, one of D&D’s rivals, Pathfinder, is making one of those changes. No longer will evil liches keep their souls in “phylacteries” (a word usually used for small boxes containing Torah parchments worn by some Jews during prayer). Instead the lich’s wicked item will be called a “soul cage”.

via Google images

When you Google “phylactery” you get a mix of Jewish men praying and evil-looking fantasy doodads. Not great! Seems like such a simple change is well and truly overdue and I hope other fantasy games follow suit!


MORE links:

  • “Lil Nas X and the New Era of Religious Symbolism in Music” (article)

  • “The Vatican is worried about artificial intelligence” (article)

  • This guy trying to flog Jesus NFTs apparently doesn’t know what that part of Genesis means

  • Once when I was doing a Bible reading in church I said “monkey cagers” instead of “money changers”. Here’s a guy doing something pretty similar

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