"An Arizona priest used one wrong word in baptisms for decades. They're all invalid"

[kane_magus]

Link to article.

So, like, the entire concept of "baptism" is already super dumb to begin with, but the idea that they can be rendered "invalid" (all because a dude said "we" instead of "I") just makes the whole thing *even* *dumber.* 🙄 https://t.co/plEetVXhB8

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 16, 2022

"'For example, if a priest uses milk instead of wine during the Consecration of the Eucharist, the sacrament is not valid,' it said. 'The milk would not become the Blood of Jesus Christ.'"

You sure? Maybe Jesus was just in a milk mood that day.

*weary sigh + facepalm + smdh*

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 16, 2022

In any case, because of the above, at least some portion of those thousands of people are probably going to be in a panic now because they didn't get baptized """""legitimately."""""

To prevent this becoming another long-winded rant, I'll just stop here.

Religion is so dumb.

— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 16, 2022

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Seriously... all because a dude said "we" instead of "I," thousands of instances of what is already a made-up bullshit ritual in the first place are now considered to be "invalid." No, but really, all baptisms not performed in the original Aramaic or whatever language it was that Jesus presumably actually spoke "IRL" should technically be "invalid," too? I mean, it's not like Jesus ever spoke English or Spanish or whatever, right?

And people on Twitter are saying, "hurr durr a baptism is your public declaration of your faith in God no man can declare it invalid derp" and I'm like, yeah, totally, all those infants (like the one shown in the picture included with the article) were totally standing up and declaring how much they loved Jesus when that priest poured a bowl of water over their heads and mistakenly said "we" instead of "I," so it totally doesn't matter if their baptisms are "invalid."

As for the Consecration of the Eucharist or whatever, when I was in middle school, I once went to a church with my best friend at the time, and there they used grape juice for that. Grape juice is not wine, so I guess that was "invalid," too. *shrug + eye roll* Not that I really gave much more of a flying fuck even back then than I do now. I mostly just went because it was my friend's family's thing, and I was merely along for the ride.

It's all asinine horseshit, regardless of whether it's "valid" or "invalid."

Religion is fucking clownshoes. That is all.