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Kronk is Jewish and Wolverine is Christian

Also, NFTs of saintly relics are coming

Rohan Salmond
Dec 1, 2021
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Friends, this week’s edition of Relics is less in-depth than normal. It’s my boyfriend’s birthday today and this evening we are going to eat dinner together and celebrate.

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shout out to the most specific chanukah greeting i’ve seen this year
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November 28th 2021

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Kronk is Jewish

It’s Hanukkah, and Disney wants to teach you how to decorate a dreidel. What better character to do this than… Kronk?

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Happy Hanukkah! Learn how to make and play your very own game of dreidel with Kronk!
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November 28th 2021

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The Incan himbo is kind of a weird choice given The Emperor’s New Groove is set pre-Columbian exchange, but apparently the character really is Jewish in the movie’s canon.

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@vinniecuddles @Disney He canonically is! (as established in the TV show)
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November 28th 2021

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Of course, this means that in the world of The Emperor’s New Groove, there were Jews living in the Americas before European colonisation - which is a doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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@Disney kronk being jewish means that within the emperor's new groove universe, mormonism is true

November 28th 2021

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Happy Hanukkah! Learn how to make and play your very own game of dreidel with Kronk! https://t.co/ket1zT5viZ

November 29th 2021

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Finding this Twitter thread led me to learn about the B'nai Moshe, a group of Incan Jews who were converted by a former Catholic priest who himself converted to Judaism. Most of the Inca Jews now live in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Finally for Hanukkah, you can’t go past this 80s news graphic:

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November 28th 2021

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Where do I get that hideous jacket

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How LGBTQs be summoning the Holy Spirit

November 23rd 2021

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Wolverine is Christian

It’s also Advent, the time of preparation before Christmas. To that end, Liz Bruenig would like to remind you that “Wolverine is a Christian, he loves Jesus, and he was converted by Nightcrawler.”

Here’s what she’s linked to:


In case you forgot, the nativity story has angels in it

via @FaithfullyBP

Religious relics released as NFTs

It was only a matter of time. The Portuguese charity Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (SCML) has launched Artentik “the NFT Marketplace for good causes.”

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Gorgeous fine art and religious relic #NFTs are coming to @Artentik_ 500 year old non-profit, @SantaCasaLisboa is launching this marketplace w/ the first 4 #NFT drops featuring works of Andre Reinoso Here's a peek at them 👀

November 29th 2021

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From the Artentik blog:

Artentik, the digital marketplace for SCML, is dropping the world’s first religious relics in the form of Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) for the 500-year-old social enterprise organisation and keeper of the Museum and Church of São Roque in Lisbon, which houses one of the most important religious collections in Catholic Europe.

The first four NFTs will be copies of paintings by Portuguese proto-baroque painter André Reinoso, but the fifth will be a reliquary of St Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuits.

From Irish Tech News:

This tiny statue dates back to the 17th century and measures 114 x 40 cm in size. In total, 1 million NFTs will be minted of this statue, but only 10,000 released in the first drop. This is a fixed price NFT at €100 each.

So that sure is a thing that’s happening!


“This anti-religious Soviet poster looks so good it’s hard to be mad about it”

via @ChasePadusniak

An alien lizard tried to have sex with me

Twitter avatar for @hemantmehtaHemant Mehta @hemantmehta
End Times preacher Sharon Gilbert says that an alien imitated her husband, and then it tried to have sex with her, and then it claimed to be Xerxes, and then Jesus got involved, and then the alien turned out to be a reptile with a posse of gargoyles.

November 23rd 2021

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This video of Sharon Gilbert claiming to have been visited by a reptilian “critter” pretending to be her husband has gotten a lot of attention over the past week. I don’t know if she’s describing the classic lizard people conspiracy theory or if she’s describing a serpent like in the Garden of Eden but it’s a wild ride. Also the man sitting next to her nodding along is her husband Derek.


Ken Ham vs the Pope re: aliens

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November 23rd 2021

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I bet Pope Francis would baptise the alien lizard people. Nobody is beyond redemption.


Three different people sent me this tweet

The picture won’t display properly if I embed the tweet directly, but it’s from user @JayHulmePoet:

“I was recycling old copies of The Church Times and found this...”

via @JayHulmePoet

Another good tweet

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"Oh My God" is my favorite expression because if you remove any of the three words, it has the same meaning, just in a very different tone

November 23rd 2021

6,456 Retweets85,028 Likes

More links:

  • The ostentatious story of the ‘young pope’ Leo X: his pet elephant, the cardinal he killed and his anal fistula

  • Betty, from the Archie comics, is a Bible basher

  • Me on my way to get the speck out of somebody else’s eye

  • “I'm going on an Advent-ure!”

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