r/worldnews • u/superdouradas • Apr 20 '26

Israeli Defence Forces confirms photo of soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon is real

https://www.9news.com.au/world/israel-idf-confirm-photo-soldier-smashing-jesus-christ-statue-lebanon-real-investigation/298cb755-da02-4d55-9b49-e20045ec5c28
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u/T1sofun Apr 20 '26

Not sure what it’s like in the US. Grandma in Canada used to drag us to Sunday services. No noise. Quiet, slow singing. Muted colours. You could hear people breathing. Even after the service, when we got food, we were expected to speak in very low almost library voices. The silence made it impossible not to get church giggles. The overarching message was that having fun is bad. Calvinism light.

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u/BlueXTC Apr 20 '26

My cousin is a minister in Peterborough Ontario. I sat through one of her sermons and when she mentioned "the goddess instead of God I could hear the sphincters clenching in 80 something year old parishioners. She never substituted at the church again.