# Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066 "2022-02-07T18:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/381 "2023-06-21T21:48:34Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I not only attended masses at weddings and funerals in Catholic churches, I was actually married in one. I was raised Catholic and the only reason I had a Catholic wedding was to make my grandmother happy (we also never let her know that we had been living together for years before that) I never married, but that’s a sacrifice I could never have made, all that going through the motions would have made me sick (no criticism to you, it’s just me). I also don’t pretend to still be Catholic when I attend mass occasionally, I don’t sing, pray or kneel. I’m respectful though, while I often want to call out the drivel that’s presented in the sermon. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/382 "2023-06-21T22:06:37Z")
I was raised Catholic but stopped actively participating while I was in college (which was interesting because I was attending a Catholic college). This was never an issue with the rest of my family,most of whom weren’t that religious anyway, so I respect their participation just as they respect my lack of same. Outside of my wedding, the closest I came to acknowledging services was doing a reading at my mother’s funeral mass, This was only three years after my wedding, and I did have trouble getting through it without crying because I knew it would have meant a lot to her. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/383 "2023-06-22T00:55:43Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I was raised Catholic but stopped actively participating while I was in college (which was interesting because I was attending a Catholic college). This was never an issue with the rest of my family,most of whom weren’t that religious anyway, so I respect their participation just as they respect my lack of same. Atheist friend of mine related this from his mother, who still lives in England. > Of couse our religion is Church of England. What do you mean why don’t we go to church then? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/384 "2023-06-22T01:18:50Z")
I do not like pickles. Pickles on chicken? _Shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/385 "2023-06-22T01:37:51Z")
I’ve also been boycotting Chick-fil-A, where I never ate anyway, and I’ve switched from Yuengling to Bud Lite, but it’s okay because I never drink beer. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/386 "2023-06-22T01:57:51Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Pickles on chicken? _Shudder_ Not pickles on chicken. The chicken is brined in pickle juice before being breaded and fried. I like it, some people don’t. Also, I love eating pickles on their own but hate pickles on or in anything. Just a quirk of mine. (So if a sandwich comes with pickles, I pick them off and eat them alone, then eat the sandwich. I detest relish.) ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/387 "2023-06-22T02:00:11Z")
Bleh, I make pickles for my husband. I detest anything pickled or flavored with dill. Ack. But then again I’m a fussy brat, so there is that. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/388 "2023-06-22T02:15:33Z")
So, how do you find the taste of Bud Lite? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/389 "2023-06-22T02:33:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So, how do you find the taste of Bud Lite? - The dung is better. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/390 "2023-06-22T02:42:51Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Was he afraid that the food had Buddha-cooties in it and he might accidentally catch Buddhism? But then he waits on his food anyway. I guess being hungry overrode his principles. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/391 "2023-06-22T03:00:51Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Heck, I attended _masses_ (at weddings and funerals) after I had become an apostate, but I never caught the Catholic bug again. Heh, I went to Catholic school (got an A in Catholic communicants class\*), and was baptized Presbyterian. Neither took, and I was firm in my atheism a year later. Married in my backyard by my cousin, a Methodist minister, to please my parents. We still had to avoid telling my cousin my girlfriend and I been living together for months. But I’ll consume any Chick-fil-a sandwich you put in front of me. Pickles? Ehh, put them in the foil bag or throw them out the window. I like the vinegar flavor they leave on the bun, though. \*And I look that word up to make sure it’s not possessive, and I find out the first few Google hits describe it as a Presbyterian thing. I new I was basically simultaneously taking two versions of the same class, but the Presbyterians I was involved with didn’t call it that. Those sneaky bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/392 "2023-06-22T03:26:31Z")
The joke I was attempting was that **Dung\_Beetle** said they never drink beer. My question was meant to imply Bud Lite (well, Bud of any style) is not beer. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/393 "2023-06-22T03:29:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The joke I was attempting was that **Dung\_Beetle** said they never drink beer. My question was meant to imply Bud Lite (well, Bud of any style) is not beer. - To be technical, Bud Lite is beer in every sense. It just doesn’t taste like it. In fact, it doesn’t taste like anything that should be put in the human digestive tract. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/394 "2023-06-22T03:48:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > So, how do you find the taste of Bud Lite? I just pop open the top and there it is. Actually, like **D\_B** , I don’t drink beer. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/395 "2023-06-22T03:54:54Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Married in my backyard by my cousin, a Methodist minister, to please my parents. We still had to avoid telling my cousin my girlfriend and I been living together for months. My wife’s cousin’s husband officiated at the weddings of my two married sons. He’s some form of Baptist minister (he does insurance adjusting as his money making job). Both couples were cohabitating, I think his theory was to get them married off and out of a state of sin. Assuming my third son’s boyfriend decides to make an honest man out of him, I guessing that a gay marriage may be a bridge too far, however. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/396 "2023-06-22T04:10:43Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Assuming my third son’s boyfriend decides to make an honest man out of him, I guessing that a gay marriage may be a bridge too far, however. Hey, only one way to find out. Who knows? Maybe they’re ready for some rebellion. But yeah, there are easier ways to get married. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/397 "2023-06-22T12:34:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > In fact, it doesn’t taste like anything that should be put in the human digestive tract. With luck, I’ll never find out. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/398 "2023-06-22T13:19:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > My question was meant to imply Bud Lite (well, Bud of any style) is not beer. A priest (Father Bud), a rabbi named Yuengling, and Pastor Guinness walk into a bar. The priest orders a Bud Light, the rabbi a Yuengling, and the minister says “Guess I’ll have a Coke.” The other two were surprised “We thought you’d order a Guinness.” “Well, I figured since you two weren’t having beer, I wouldn’t either.” ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/399 "2023-06-22T13:20:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@LurkMeister](#): > > > > I was raised Catholic but stopped actively participating while I was in college (which was interesting because I was attending a Catholic college). This was never an issue with the rest of my family,most of whom weren’t that religious anyway, so I respect their participation just as they respect my lack of same. > > Atheist friend of mine related this from his mother, who still lives in England > > > Of couse our religion is Church of England. What do you mean why don’t we go to church then? One of Neil Gaiman’s characters in _Good Omens_ avoided going to the Church of England, and wouldn’t dream of avoiding going to any other church. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/400 "2023-06-22T13:52:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > In fact, it doesn’t taste like anything that should be put in the human digestive tract. Honestly, I think the most relevant snip is “it doesn’t taste like anything.” Bud Light isn’t bad. It can’t be. It’s had so many qualities engineered out of it that qualifiers like ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are much too decisive. You can only use words like “inoffensive” and “consistent” and “no thanks I don’t quite see the point.” It’s perfectly representative of a very specific style of low-flavor low-impact lager. There’s something vaguely admirable about it, and I’d rather drink one than any number of overhopped trendy brews (though given the choice between just those options I’d probably stick with water). Anyway, regarding the chicken, I actually have some gift cards I’ve been meaning to use. I also haven’t ever had one of their sandwiches and have no intention of giving them money, but I’m of the opinion that it’s better to use a gift card than not. They’ve already gotten paid, might as well reduce the profit margin. I’ll report back whenever I get around to finally eating there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066.md?page=21)