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Not gon' lie, if they had been playing gospel like this (Travelin' Shoes by the Golden Gate Quartet, Thornato remix)* when folks were hauling me along to church, the course of my life might have ended up pretty different. May have ended up actually continuing to go, heh.

*Original version. That sorta' thing might have been enough, too, for that matter. One of the most cheerful sounding songs about god viciously murdering people I've heard in my life

... wait, who's black's protege? Harry wouldn't exactly count (wasn't taught much, due to black's trauma+not exactly living very long, don't think black got custody in canon?), and I don't recall anyone else who would.

Can't, uh. Can't recall who house had custody of either, for that matter. Unless The House is distinct from House, in which case things get more interesting. The platonic ideal of a casino having custody of Harry and teaching them how to Always Win is a neat thought, and I'm sure Black and Lady Luck or whoever would get on like a raging house fire, burning merrily and lowering property values for entire metropolitan areas.

Words mean things, yo'. I didn't use the word immune or imply all because I didn't mean immune or all, nor was I trying to communicate them, c'mon now. Nevermind that TV shows are not, in fact, reality, ha. Since I apparently need to stop joking quite as much, what I've seen on the ground is that minority churches in general, at least stateside, seem to have fewer of the sort of the problems plaguing majority ones. The exact why is probably a dozen different things, and not, in fact, better music warding off a cursed laid on religious buildings by a holy figure flipping over a table. Just to make that clear

Luther, though... Luther was a sack of shit. Relevant to that demand in particular, the amount of folks literate at all during his lifetime and area ranged from around 5% to around 15%. It was an ask he would have been well aware would have little to no actual effect on the power of the clergy (and clearly doesn't to this day if you spend much or any time listening to big name preachers or any congregation influenced by them, ha), and given his own issues when it came to church corruption was likely a rhetorical bludgeon more than anything well intended.

It may (and only may) have made a difference well after his death, but it's probably better not to give much credit to a bloodthirsty jackass's accident, heh.

Pharisee types seem to spontaneously generate the moment a church actually organizes, tbh. I'd fake bet ten nonexistent witchbucks christ laid some kind of eternal curse on religious buildings with those purported table flippings, such that to build and organize around them causes something in you to start to rot.

... closest thing I've seen to avoiding that curse stateaide is a fair amount of black churches, and other minority ones. My off the cuff guess it's actually the music, or good music helps ward off the blight or something. Explains why it's so prevalent in evangelical ones, their music trends hard towards kinda' shit even for gospel

It is one of the things that strikes me pretty often, though. Christian scripture wise, Jesus did not exactly spend much on-screen time in pews or behind pulpits, y'know? Some of the church appearances were pretty aggressive! But they mostly just weren't involved. Folks claiming to believe in the critter and wanting to follows their ways sure don't spend much time actually... doing... what Jesus did. Very little wandering around in hobo clothes like the fellow was basically described as doing, etc. Kinda' makes you wonder.

Mind, that's fairly common for the laity at a minimum among most religions in the world, but still. It's sometimes astounding how little the practice of worship resembles the practices ascribed to the figure the folks involved claim to be worshipping. It's a sort of, "What ass are you people pulling all this shit out of" dealio...

Sheeeeit, you just murdered the world's only talking mushroom, first of its kind, herald of an entire new species of fungal sophont. You've committed genuine xenocide, you monster.

Eh, the time or two I've been on opiates of note, they worked, but it was a wildly miserable experience only better than vicious agony in comparison. I do not enjoy the feeling of having control ripped from me by some substance or another, ha. It's fundamentally not pleasant, even if it's relaxing the body or whatever.

Only took two first floor deaths to knock off the rust and follow up with a five floor normal difficulty win. Redshift still got it!


e: four days and about 11 runs and redshift has perfected terminus on normal, whee

redshift best mech, only mech I can win with lol

time to turn up the difficulty!

e2: ... win with legitimately. Steam cheevos says I've won with four other mechs but I'm pretty sure that's from when I was modding everything I played with with the redshift effect