re: #119 JC1

I was raised Catholic. I was an altar boy for a few years (nothing bad happened, and I didn’t hear of anything bad happening to anyone else I knew). The whole religion is objectively weird. One of my favorite takes on Catholicism is South Park’s great queen spider episode. Brilliant.

‘Objectively weird’ is too nice. I was also raised Catholic. Yesterday I learned that Catholics invented utilized the caesarean section. At first, of course, the mother was not expected to live, but the baby was given a chance. They didn’t use it if the mother had a chance. Unless…

They wanted to baptize the baby before it died. When in doubt, the mother had to go first.