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Priests Bringing Up Hell at Funerals and B-Squad Clergy

from Father Kump · #48

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Tim riffs on priests using funerals as a captive-audience sales pitch about hell, noting the church saves its best orators for funerals versus regular Sunday mass, with a tangent about immigrant priests.

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  • 7:05Priests use funerals like insurance—the only time they feel they matter, unlike regular Sunday services where regulars just shuffle in.
  • 7:29Tim: funerals bring outsiders, so priests really hammer the mortality angle to hook people back in.
  • 7:52Tim attended church every week as a boy and noticed priests never bring B-squad clergy to funerals—they send the A team.
  • 8:03The B-squad priests—often immigrants from Africa—handle the regular services instead.
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