What should clergy wear?

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I accidentally voted for option 3 but option 1 is obviously my actual answer.

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I've always said I'll never go to a church where the pastor is wearing a tie unless they are obviously doing it "ironically". If I see that I'm out the door.

Yeah. Priests dressing like businessmen is the worst. If I can't have my late-Roman secular formal wear repurposed as vestments, I'd rather go to a hipster church than a church that fancied itself a Rotarians meeting.

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I don't know what Asian female hipsters stereotypically look like.

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The first group. At worst they'd be somewhat conservative and dull for my tastes, but I can deal with that easily.

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Well, I mean, obviously it depends on the Catholic priest in question, but there are plenty of Catholic priests who I would like and do like to hang out with, whereas there aren't terribly many hipster/hardcore types with whom I get along in my experience.

What were your College Democrats in 2006 like?

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Cathcon definitely strikes me as a more libertarian-leaning College Republican type down the line, yeah.

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Cathcon definitely strikes me as a more libertarian-leaning College Republican type down the line, yeah.

How did I come into this? But yeah, I'm getting more libertarian, though I still maintain a good amount of social conservatism & reverence for tradition (as you can probably see)

Eh, it's just you seem to have that sort of personality. I can't really put my finger on it. Certainly not as libertarian as a lot of the yellow avatars here, but still more than you are now.

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Hey I got baptized in one of those miniature inflatable pools that kids play in in backyards! But of course a river or lake isn't exactly a good option for baptism in Minnesota in February. I know during the summer some churches here do baptisms in Lake Harriett.

Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?


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It's from some Prince vehicle, forget the title.

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Ideally, there would be no clergy, but options 1 and 2 are absurdly archaic for everybody.

Hence why clergy should wear them. Religion is supposed to be or at least evoke the transhistorical.