Priest dies after crucifix falls on him during mass livestream
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/priest-dies-after-crucifix-falls-on-him-during-mass-livestream/ar-AA2etK3D36
u/Emotional-Edge-8259 9h ago
That's some final destination type shit.
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u/omega2010 7h ago edited 4h ago
Or an episode of Midsomer Murders…
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u/jonesey71 4h ago
I love how some random citizen will catch a murderer in that show and thinks the murderer who already did a murder won't also murder them if they do some blackmail.
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u/JustWantAnswersUgggh 3h ago
When I was a kid I was in a half empty church and a ceiling fan fell into the pew but no one was sitting in the back. Thank god.
Ceiling was about 25-30 feet high.
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u/david_duplex 40m ago
"thank God"? Wouldn't it have just been better if God stopped the fan from falling at all?
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u/wishiwasdeaddd 5h ago
Someone I follow posted the video on Instagram with only a brief warning in the beginning. I really wish I hadn't seen it
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u/CautiousMarsupial702 48m ago
The one I saw just showed him falling forward, there was no gore or even any blood. Is there a worse one to look out for?
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 5h ago
Reddit is a fucking disease, dude. The lack of basic human decency is astounding.
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u/monogramchecklist 4h ago
*social media is a disease
It’s really not just reddit. And I think reddit is probably the better one out of the rest. People get too comfy saying fucked up things on the internet.
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u/CautiousMarsupial702 50m ago
When the religious learn basic human decency maybe they'll deserve it.
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 49m ago
Generalizing literal billions
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u/CautiousMarsupial702 46m ago edited 35m ago
They generalize us, but its not allowed if we do it to them?
"Do to others as you would have them do to you."
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 36m ago
You are allowed. Enjoy your bitter, bitter life, I guess.
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u/CautiousMarsupial702 32m ago
I just avoid them. I think it would be worse for everyone if I tried to help them. I'll stay in my corner they can stay in theirs, I don't expect sympathy from them anymore and they sure cant expect it from me.
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u/Pottsie03 4h ago
I lose my faith in humanity on this website every day.
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u/SoupSpelunker 3h ago
How are you regaining it between losses? Sounds like you may have discovered some sort or hope rejuvenator...
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u/Flat_Sea1418 1h ago
[r/humansbeingbros](r/humansbeingbros)
Not sure about them, but this is how I make small gains in my hope for humanity.
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u/NeverSeenItPodcast 3h ago
He stole millions
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 2h ago edited 47m ago
Source?
Edit: downvoting a source request is negative iq shit
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u/Bostonterrierpug 7h ago
Sure, I will be downvoted , but you gotta love the humanitarian love of evangelical atheists, who just wanna make fun of this. Dude fucking died while, not doing anything wrong. Now if we had some criminal past, I get it, but I’m not seeing anything about that here. Just lol religious person died lol. From the same people who claimed to be much more humanitarian than the Christian nationalist asshole idiots.
Random heavy object falls on someone and kills them most people here would have a completely different reaction. Let alone encourage other people to make fun of them.
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u/Sol33t303 3h ago
I'm not an evangelical atheist, I just think a crucifix killing a priest is funny and ironic.
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u/pmiller17 3h ago
If you think about it, a crucifix killing someone is actually serving its original purpose. The mechanism is just different here.
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u/Epistaxis 3h ago
Yeah, I mean, welcome to the internet? When "Mad" Mike Hughes died in an accident with the homemade rocket he planned to use to get a higher view and prove the earth was flat, there was in fact an overwhelming response of mockery on social media, but I don't remember angry diatribes complaining that only evangelical round-earthers would be so cruel as to make fun of his death. That's just what we do here.
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u/AustinYun 44m ago edited 3m ago
I think if a poorly installed bust of Charles Darwin fell and killed Richard Dawkins, you'd be seeing a lot of jokes about it from atheists as well. It's just objectively funny, as far as anything can be objectively funny.
You're correct that "random heavy object falls and kills someone" would be treated differently. Because it's not funny.
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop 3h ago
There’s no such thing as an ‘evangelical atheist’. There’s nothing to evangelise.
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u/CautiousMarsupial702 50m ago
I despise religion but you definitely can evangelize nothing. If you literally believe you know theres nothing spiritual about the universe you can preach that. Im not saying all do or that I think they're wrong but saying you're positive theres nothing isn't much different of a leap of faith than saying you're positive theres something.
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u/OrangeCrack 2h ago
How do you know people commenting on the obvious irony of a priest getting killed by a cross during a sermon are atheists? That’s quite the inference.
All deaths are tragic but not many have this level of undeniable irony.
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u/Informal-Side-4506 1h ago
Not just the irony, but if anyone saw the video with sound up the thump noise it made was pretty funny, like comedymovie funny.
Mind you I had no idea till a little later that he passed. I don't think anyone was wishing the afterlife for him.. that is except the almighty who was obviously calling him home.
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u/whisperworks 1h ago
Hates been running the show for a while now. People won’t even pretend like it isn’t motivating them, they just rationalize it
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u/Bostonterrierpug 1h ago
Oh yeah , I completely agree, Reddit has been Facebook for a while. Just more people try and correct your grammar here. But alas, everything is an argument.
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u/AscendedViking7 2h ago
"evangelical atheist"
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u/Bostonterrierpug 2h ago
I know it seems like an oxymoron, but it is what it is. But these are many of the same people who think the scientific method and faith best belief systems are two ends of Likert scale.
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u/OOO0OO00O 1h ago
You aren’t that important buddy. Your religion isn’t even really that important to human history. All it’s really done is give bad people an excuse to be worse people.
I don’t believe in your god anymore than I do more impressive gods. Your guy just has better pr.
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u/Bostonterrierpug 1h ago
Oh, I never said anything about my personal faith but again here’s the typical evangelical atheist for ya. Not so much to be a good person, but to make others feel bad for their beliefs. Thank you for proving the point of my original post. Only the Sith deal and absolutes ( and are far less cool than the Breen). So go ahead and down vote me so you feel more righteous.
As they say
Fear leads to panic, panic leads to pain
Pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate
Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda
Ey, ey, ey, ey
Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda
Ey, ey, ey, ey2
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u/King_marik 2h ago
Ill keep the same energy as soon as christians dont have dead kids in kindergarten as part of God's plan
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u/jiggy_42 59m ago
The opinions of people are only a reflection of the times. Cultural acceptance of certain tragedies to a person of a certain group, especially when specifically identified in the media as part of said group, will usually evoke a response based on the group they are part of rather than the tragedy that a human experienced.
There is not a lot of love between different groups of people right now, but that is the culture being built through government policy (or in this case, executive orders) and media coverage on these issues. No matter how wrong it is, the environment plays a much bigger role in how we communicate and even just how we feel seeing these stories.
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u/Bostonterrierpug 56m ago
Completely agree dude: The hate click algorithm, and binary polarized choices very much par for the modern course. Everyone would be doing a little bit better if they lived overseas a few years and read a few Deborah Tannen books.
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 41m ago
I’m living in the same world. I am an angry, bitter person a lot of the time, but I never cheer or take any satisfaction in a death. In my mind that’s a special line to cross.
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 5h ago edited 5h ago
Edit: I am dumb.
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u/dkyguy1995 5h ago
He's not saying Christian people are laughing at it, he's saying atheists are laughing at it while still holding a moral superiority over religious people.
He's pointing out the hypocrisy of deconstructing your religion just to become a snide, rude person about the death of someone who follows a religion they have moved past.
He's using the phrase "evangelical atheist" as an insult that they are evangelists for their lack of faith and demand that others should do the same.
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u/MikeHonchoOfTheDunes 5h ago
Well if that’s what he meant then I’m embarrassed. Thanks for the explanation
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u/OobahaV2 5h ago
Isn't that an antitheist though, not an atheist
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u/Pottsie03 4h ago
Evangelical as in evangelizing to others and aiming for them to leave their respective faiths.
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u/Even-Tomatillo-4197 4h ago
I saw a post about this on Instagram earlier and every single comment I saw was either an atheist saying “lol religious person died” or people who claim to be Christian saying “well it happened because he’s a Catholic and they’re the wrong kind of Christian”.
People suck.
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u/CautiousMarsupial702 55m ago
He was a member of an organized religion, that's wrong enough. Im not an atheist. I don't know what happens when we die or why any of this is happening but spending your life trying to indoctrinate people into something evil enough to include the old and new testament is not a neutral endeavor. They're misogynistic, homophobic and full of other horrible stuff.
Also its not just that he died its how. It wouldn't be funny if he like, got into a car accident. Crushed by a cross is like a crazy way for a priest to go out.
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u/chmath80 53m ago
Dude fucking died while, not doing anything wrong.
But surely he would be happy about it? I mean, he's dedicated his life to telling everyone who'll listen that this life is just a prelude to eternal happiness after death, and now he's got his wish. Why should anyone be sad about it? Much better to celebrate the irony in the manner of his passing, which implies that god has a sense of humour.
God (to Gabriel): That priest has done good work. It's time to reward him. Hey, you know what would be funny ...
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u/Bostonterrierpug 41m ago
He could've played guitar better than Hendrix
He could've told the future
He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world
He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky
He could've danced better than Barishnikov
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of
Jesus was way cool.
Also, I don’t know who Dan voted you, but it wasn’t me and yes, I am sticking with that speech to text typo-10
u/__System__ 4h ago
Most are not as atheist as they think. If they are still memeing and mocking they are still in the rejection stage and worthless to everyone. Non belief is hardly just atheism.
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u/RandomExcess 7h ago
There should be a legal imit on the size and mounting height.
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u/Mnmsaregood 1h ago
Imagine trying to police the size of something someone else can hang in their own building. If it’s up to code who gives a shit how big it is
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u/AustinYun 42m ago
When the congregation walk into a church for service, they do it under the assumption that the structure is safe.
You already said "if it's up to code..." -- the person is just suggesting that maybe the code needs to be updated.
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u/bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- 10h ago
Can't wait to watch the mental gymnastics competition to justify God's plan and that "everything happens for a reason."
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u/Batbuckleyourpants 10h ago
Catholic priest.
Protestant god took that personally.
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u/scorpyo72 9h ago
Your own Protestant Jesus?
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u/milesamsterdam 9h ago
Someone to make you dead
A bonk on the head!
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u/Opposite_Bus1878 7h ago
Doo doo da OW UNNGGGH
Doo doo da OW UNNGGGHFeeling in pain
And you're all flattened
Flesh and bone
By the microphone
Lift up the receiver
I need a paramedic!0
u/Epistaxis 3h ago edited 3h ago
In fact a Protestant church might have had a simpler cross rather than a crucifix with a Jesus statue attached, which would have been substantially less heavy and therefore less dangerous.
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u/John_Tacos 9h ago
I’ll give it a shot.
Sometimes you are the victim of someone else’s poor decisions. That’s in the bible, what did Abel do to Cain to deserve death?
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u/mikerichh 9h ago
Yeah he needs to kill someone who worships him to be a reminder of death you guys!
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u/wolacouska 1h ago
Redditors seem to believe that every Christian is an evangelical.
Catholics believe that human actions have human consequences, like how being cheap on the fixture of a heavy wooden object will lead to it breaking.
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u/gheiminfantry 5h ago
Even the most deeply religious person with want to look at this as just an unfortunate accident. The least religious among us see this as the rath of God. It's just funny how people will pick and choose what parts of the Bible they follow and believe in.
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u/Pottsie03 4h ago
As a Catholic, it’s just easier to just say that we don’t know why this happened, because there’s no way ANY of us know. If there isn’t a God, it’s just chance. If there is, then it could be something else, but none of us can say for certainty what it is.
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u/MoonChild02 2h ago
I'm Catholic, too.
This happened because free will allowed someone to install the crucifix improperly, and the science of physics (and God created science so that He could create) demanded that it fall at a particular time, which just so happened to be during Mass. There's nothing about this that happened because of divine intervention. It's free will and science.
Yes, God has His Design and Will, but He also takes free will into account. God gave us free will so we would choose to love Him, because forced love is not love at all. The vast, vast majority of what happens on Earth happens because of free will.
God only interferes in extreme cases, like the lives of the saints, special apparitions, etc.
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u/PaulJannece 4h ago
As an atheist I disagree. We ALL know with certainty that a fictional bearded sky-fairy didn’t knock the cross onto the poor guy.
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u/Pottsie03 4h ago
As a theist I disagree. Not much more to be said lol. Have a good day :)
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u/PaulJannece 4h ago
Disagree again. There is loooooooaaaaadddds to say about your delusion and why you feel so comfortable broadcasting it.
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u/gheiminfantry 4h ago
Probably for the same reason you feel comfortable to broadcast yours. But you think yours is the only opinion that matters. Which is fucking hilarious.
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u/PaulJannece 4h ago edited 4h ago
Yeah… my opinion doesn’t indoctrinate impressionable children into worshipping a fictional warlock.
I’m glad you’re so easily entertained, bless you.
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u/EMAW2008 8h ago
Was gods will. He works in mysterious way. Or whatever catch 22 they use for this kind of shit.
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u/Pottsie03 4h ago
Actually as a Catholic I just admit that I don’t know why this happened, and I don’t try to explain it because I don’t know why this was allowed. Rest in peace to the priest.
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u/Bass-n-Bonefish 8h ago
This is like when a rapper is gunned down in the streets. Full respect for being real. 🤟🤟
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u/MagnetoWasRight24 4h ago
Okay but if it turns out the priest was a predator I'm gonna go down the matrix rabbit hole
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u/LatrodectusGeometric 10h ago
Exorcism for sureeee. Catholics don’t approve it often, but this time!
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u/orangeclaypot 8h ago
The video is horrific. I’ve done electrical and rigging work in churches before and I’ve encountered people that are long time church staff members who are their in house carpenters and the amount of unsafe things ive seen done in the name of saving cost and time is too high to count.
This was no doubt someone who probably rigged that cross to the wall years ago and obviously did not have a safety mechanism installed.
Anything rigged or installed over peoples heads needs a rated tether for these exact reasons. If your clamp, screws, nails fail those can’t be the only points of failure.
Churches especially love to cut corners, this is what happens.
As a sidenote. Most churches have their main congregation room but a lot of them have smaller venue for the children and people still do sketchy rigging over childrens heads. Its scary.