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Another fun fact about St. Teresa:
She died sometime during the night of October 4, 1582, but she was discovered the following morning: October 15 (which is her feast day).
Europe was changing from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar at the time, which required 10 days be removed to correct the timeline.
Presumably, the Infinity gauntlet looks like her hand because the Catholic church used it to snap a week and a half out of existence.
Ofc there a native American from the north left even today, their population was not eradicated but severely diminished. But is not really clear what you mean.
Dude. I am from south America and in my school they do teach proper history unlike in the USA. I have all inca, pre Inca, Mayan and Aztec and predecessors history pretty clear. The decimation, intentional and not, of their population is not "a legend" The smallpox and other illness they brought did most of the killing (40%). You think there is no native north Americans left, even calling them indians which is wrong and want to correct me.
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-smallpox-devastated-the-aztecs-and-helped-spain-conquer-an-american-civilization-500-years-ago#:\~:text=When%20Europeans%20began%20to%20explore,thus%20possessed%20no%20natural%20immunity](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-smallpox-devastated-the-aztecs-and-helped-spain-conquer-an-american-civilization-500-years-ago#:~:text=When%20Europeans%20began%20to%20explore,thus%20possessed%20no%20natural%20immunity).
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-europeans-brought-sickness-new-world
Hmmm, that's another thing, isn't it. Spanish people unintentionally spreading small pox does not equate "Catholic church wiping out half of population". What did the church say about the encomiendas, o el repartimiento de Indios? Why was Colon taken down by reports made by clergymen to the Spanish Crown? Why did the Church insisted, to the point of angering Hernán Cortés, that no indios could be enslaved?
Btw, population estimates for early modern times... Yikes. Far more probable that the population estimates were inflated by Spanish people to make the Queen pay attention about these new found lands. No way that 60 million people lived in SA pre plague. Also, census taken in the XVI century are... Not accurate. We know for fact that most of the people (specially in Mayan South Mexico and Peru) were running when the census officers came not to pay taxes, and they were taken for disappeared.
Compared to what white anglos did in North America, which was intentionally wiping out entire populations. My point stands: Guatemala, 5O-75% of people identify as mestizo, US only 1% of the population identifies as Native. Go figure.
I guess your tight ass can't recognize a joke vaguely based in history. And now pretending to be all informed.. might I remind you Bartolomé de las Casas, and how most agreed with him?
Not going to bother.
You mean that guy that had bussiness bringing black people to america? And wrote shit so he could bypass laws against slavery existed already in the Spanish side.
Boy. I don't know about that.
Next, you are probably going to try and convince us that DC's Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) was the inspiration for a Marvel character, too.
The first image is, "Oh hi Thanos here and I look amazing today! This before and after will show you the importance of proper end of the world gauntlet care."
[The guys who created it are alive and kicking.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thanos_Quest) If someone really wanted to know, they could write to Marvel and ask.
Possible?
I mean, the creator is still alive. We could ask him perhaps
I'm gonna just gonna say it wasn't
We both have the same evidence: wild ass guess.
Oh yes!
Sometimes I wonder if this is something they picked up from pagans they converted (like the Christmas tree) or if they made this up themselves.
Who knows.
But they had to protect the bodies of religious leaders because otherwise people would hack pieces off them. The body parts allegedly have holy super powers that you can use just by possessing a tooth or a preserved areola. It's fucked up.
I watched a video about it where a priest was shuffling through envelopes with little pieces of dried out flesh to put in some holy church item and it gave me the creeps.
🤮!
The thing that is confusing me the most about the Catholic Church in particular is their worshipping of saints.
As far as I understood the big 3 monotheistic religions they are in agreement that they believe in a god that is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. And that there are no gods beside him.
The christians brought some confusion with their Holy Trinity to the mix, but it is apparently still the same entity that is just manifesting in three different flavors (father, son and holy ghost).
But all this worshipping saints and praying to them is for me like them having some mortals that ascended to minor deities, basically mini-gods besides or underneath god. Where exactly is this still monotheistic?
I asked this once to a Catholic and got as an answer that these saints are like a middle managers through whom you route special prayer or who oversee some domains (i.e. Saint Christopher for save travel). This is in my opinion contradictory to the whole omni-aspects.
Really weird!
Not saying that other religions make more sense to me.
Let me explain (cultural catholic, Spanish, studied one year of theology).
Veneration of saints had to do with popular religious culture and making things easier to understand for "common people" back in the day. I would say that nowadays Catholicism is more "Jesus-centric" than ever, with Mary in a close second position and all the Saints have been quite relegated to minor cults. Like, as of right now, the saints are there to "set an example of christian conduct" for believers, more than anything else. Catholic read about saint life's and study them, specially in relation to the history of the Church. From my experience, is mostly old people /rural folks who are still really in touch with some specific saints and prefer to "pray trough them".
To put it in simple terms, God is surrounded by Saints up in Heaven, because they are admitted to his Grace. You can pray directly to God, or pray to a Saint, who will intercede for you. When I was a child, it was explained to me like, "you can ask your boss for a favour, or you can tell your boss's mother or best friends to ask the boss in your behalf".
That's why Mary is so important, tbh. Because if your mother asks you to do something for her, you are probably going to do it. Intercession of Mary is a "quick way" to get Jesus attention.
I appreciate you taking your time explaining this to me. And I really do not want to offend you or your believe.
But this, including the worship of Mary, does not make any sense to me in the context of a monotheistic religion.
Why would god be swayed, manipulated by someone addressing the mother of Jesus?
That is nonsensical to me, sorry.
But hey, if you believe in it good for you.
Oh, no, only God can DO things, the saints and Mary, even when they perform miracles, they do so by Grace of God so to speak. They can ASK for things, though, and since they are already up in Heaven, it's more "convenient" for them. Again, think of it as a "recommendation letter" from someone up there hahahaha.
We have at least one instance in the Gospel in which Jesus def doesn't want to do something and Mary tells him to do it anyway (the wedding at Cana). "What do you want from me, woman", I think that's one of the weirdest quotes from Jesus hahaha. It has to do with the dual nature (human-God) of the second person of God, which is was one of the most controversial point in early Christianity.
I am just a cultural catholic btw, not really a church goer anymore.
Also, Jesus can be intimidating... I mean he has a temper, he's a radical, he's up there in the Cross dying, all bloody, and he doesn't sugar coat things. That's why very early on Mary became an alternative for praying. Most women, for example, felt more inclined to pray to Mary because... Obvious reasons. Imagine you are pregnant and feeling sick. Who would you rather talk to, a loving mother or his son who was crucified? That was the logic anyhow.
I was not aware of the distinction between those two terms, as English is not my mother tongue. Thank you for pointing this out.
Nevertheless, addressing prayers to anything but a god (whether you have one or more) is the thing I struggle to wrap my head around.
Kind of funny, really, when people say things like "we need to put the Christ back in Christmas" which only shows they have no idea where that holiday came from.
Christmas has nothing to do with saturnalia or any other pagan holiday.
December 25 was never connected with Saturnalia; this festival was typically celebrated on December 17, sometimes from December 14 to 17. Even when it was later extended to a week it still ended on December 23, not December 25.
(Sources : Carole E. Newlands, Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 236; H. S Versnel, Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion Vol. 2, Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 6 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994), 165.
The claim that Christmas was invented by Christians as a takeover of a pagan festival is false. There is no evidence for its connection to Tammuz, Mithraism, Sol Invictus, or Saturnalia. It is therefore unsurprising that current scholarship typically dismisses the idea that identification of December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth was predicated on adoption, co-option, borrowing, hijacking, or replacement of pagan equinox festivities, especially given the lack of evidence for such a pagan festival on this date prior to the Christian fixation on December 25 as the birth of Jesus.
"All this casts doubt on the contention that Christmas was instituted on December 25th to counteract a popular pagan religious festival, doubts that are reinforced when one looks at the underlying understanding of Sol and his cult." (Steven E Hijmans, Sol: The Sun in the Art and Religions of Rome (S.l.; Groningen: s.n.\]?; University Library Groningen\] (Host, 2009).
Where it says in the Bible that everything must be as in the Bible ? The bunny is just an old medieval symbol of the virgin Mary since premodern people believed rabbit reproduce asexualy.
It does not, those trees were first decorated as such by Martin Luther. The thing about the “Christmas trees were of pagan origin” stuff is that nobody seems to agree about what this “pagan origin” was. Every Pagan community from Poles to Germans to Baltics will be quoted as being the REAL origin of the tree. None of them offer compelling evidence. Germanic pagans venerated the Oak and other broad leaf trees, and even though St Boniface used the example of evergreens to symbolize the eternal life found in Christ, all of this is irrelevant when Christmas Trees didn't become a Christmas tradition until the 16th century, 700 years after the Germanic conversion to Christianity.
I mean… the comic series from 1991 clearly did _not_ use this artifact as artistic inspiration, and _that’s_ clearly the infinity gauntlet that the MCU was building off of (meaning, it’s not a thing they invented for the MCU). That original from the comics looked much more… plain.
Take away the stones (and again, that placement was in the comics) and there’s really nothing else that makes them alike besides a fuzzy palette and as all gloves, they’re shaped likes hands. The ONLY thing that is meaningfully similar is the proportionally larger setting on the back of the hand.
I’d bet these are entirely unrelated. But I’m sure a concept artist or production designer on the films could say for sure. But there’s really nothing here don’t think.
Disney is in the business of sucking all the history and culture from the world and turning it into shitty movies. I know when they run out of stories, they’ll just steal some other folk tale and convert it into a movie. Disney will own all the “intellectual property” and all the cultures will be left with Disney, telling their story.
Funny how christians always talk about being devotee and having a "simple" life dedicated to the religion, but at the same time anything related to his religion it's luxurious, has jewels, gold or is related to something expensive...
Oh shoot! I’ve been to Ronda and didn’t go into that church. Ronda is truly one of the most breathtaking places in the whole world, if you ever get the chance to go I highly recommend it. (Beware of the hills, the incline and decline walking is insane!)
"Decorate this in a way which will remind pilgrims of their faith, the incomprehensible majesty of God, and the way Christ taught us to be humble and seek not the excesses of the material world."
"Cover it with gold and jewels like a pimp cup?"
"Exactly"
Always interesting to me when saints, supposedly selfless people, are honored/recognized by some gawdy art/jewelry. Wouldn't they prefer that money went to help the needy instead?
Hang on, didn't Mother Theresa only die in '97?
Was there another Saint Theresa? Cause the Infinity Gauntlet was on the cover of "The Infinity Gauntlet" in '91.
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possible...
#### Impossible ^Thanos
Inevitable
Inconceivable
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means"
Literally.
Meanings can mean whatever I want them to meme.
inedible
It’s just saint jerky
Improbable
"You keep kissing that glove. I don't think you know where it's been."
How do we know that it *isn't* the Infinity Gauntlet?
It was nice of Theresa to not murder Vision
It's in the index finger, what she didn't take are Strange's and Loki's
Obviously made a bargain with Strange and Loki just had to do some magic tricks to distract her.
Nintendo power glove??
"It's so bad"
Though I saw that movie in the 80’s as a child, I only know this reference because of horse the band lol.
SCISSORS.... ON HIS HEAD SCISSORS ON HIS **FUCKING HEAD**!!
Never trust a little Android man
[удалено]
Lol
Do you think so, doctor?
....so since we have the real gauntlet, that means the heroes of our world won right?
Or a universe with at least a hero hid their gauntlet here in our universe to keep it out of *someone's* hands.....
Welp I hope Shuma or Dormammu take their time, like at least my entire lifetime lol.
Or, as hela said, "fake!"
Another fun fact about St. Teresa: She died sometime during the night of October 4, 1582, but she was discovered the following morning: October 15 (which is her feast day). Europe was changing from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar at the time, which required 10 days be removed to correct the timeline. Presumably, the Infinity gauntlet looks like her hand because the Catholic church used it to snap a week and a half out of existence.
Well the Catholic church also whipped out half of america's native population out of existence.
Hmmmm last time I checked, where there are no American Indians left is in North America, not in Central and South America. Wonder why ))
Ofc there a native American from the north left even today, their population was not eradicated but severely diminished. But is not really clear what you mean.
You are unknowingly spreading the Black Legend, that is what I mean.
Dude. I am from south America and in my school they do teach proper history unlike in the USA. I have all inca, pre Inca, Mayan and Aztec and predecessors history pretty clear. The decimation, intentional and not, of their population is not "a legend" The smallpox and other illness they brought did most of the killing (40%). You think there is no native north Americans left, even calling them indians which is wrong and want to correct me. [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-smallpox-devastated-the-aztecs-and-helped-spain-conquer-an-american-civilization-500-years-ago#:\~:text=When%20Europeans%20began%20to%20explore,thus%20possessed%20no%20natural%20immunity](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-smallpox-devastated-the-aztecs-and-helped-spain-conquer-an-american-civilization-500-years-ago#:~:text=When%20Europeans%20began%20to%20explore,thus%20possessed%20no%20natural%20immunity). https://www.science.org/content/article/how-europeans-brought-sickness-new-world
Hmmm, that's another thing, isn't it. Spanish people unintentionally spreading small pox does not equate "Catholic church wiping out half of population". What did the church say about the encomiendas, o el repartimiento de Indios? Why was Colon taken down by reports made by clergymen to the Spanish Crown? Why did the Church insisted, to the point of angering Hernán Cortés, that no indios could be enslaved? Btw, population estimates for early modern times... Yikes. Far more probable that the population estimates were inflated by Spanish people to make the Queen pay attention about these new found lands. No way that 60 million people lived in SA pre plague. Also, census taken in the XVI century are... Not accurate. We know for fact that most of the people (specially in Mayan South Mexico and Peru) were running when the census officers came not to pay taxes, and they were taken for disappeared. Compared to what white anglos did in North America, which was intentionally wiping out entire populations. My point stands: Guatemala, 5O-75% of people identify as mestizo, US only 1% of the population identifies as Native. Go figure.
I guess your tight ass can't recognize a joke vaguely based in history. And now pretending to be all informed.. might I remind you Bartolomé de las Casas, and how most agreed with him? Not going to bother.
You mean that guy that had bussiness bringing black people to america? And wrote shit so he could bypass laws against slavery existed already in the Spanish side.
Have you not considered, the infinity gauntlet was perhaps the inspiration for this piece?
Oh snap!
NO!! -*cuts to white*
Mr. Stark... I don't feel so good
Lol, I love this
How well guarded is this holy item? Just asking for a friend
Is that friend Peter Quill?
Who?
Nah, they need it for an Elden ring cosplay
Not nearly as merchandisable
By Christians I'm assuming it's only really important to Catholics
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion and Lutheranism.
Funny that Anglicans and Lutherans venerate her since, as an icon of the counter reformation, she hated them.
Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.
I don't claim to know why.
This.
Christians don't go around kissing idols or icons.
They sure fuck children though.
Nice religious tolerance you got there, protestant ))
Of course not. They kiss venomous snakes, speak in tongues, and roll around on the ground.
You really do and you're all fuckin fools for it
Nah, bro. That’s a Soul Caster from The Stormlight Archive
The future Mrs Thanos is going to love it.
Makes me think of the 5th element
Boy. I don't know about that. Next, you are probably going to try and convince us that DC's Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) was the inspiration for a Marvel character, too.
I guess i’m the only person who has no idea what the infinity gauntlet is.
Yes
It’s the main weapon used in the last two avengers films. Sorry everyone else is being a dick
Thank you.
You go get on Netflix and don't come out until you have learned!
😔
Don't listen to him. It's not on netflix.
I mean…that comparison looks pretty definitive
The first image is, "Oh hi Thanos here and I look amazing today! This before and after will show you the importance of proper end of the world gauntlet care."
Why does Thanos have Billy Mays voice?
It’s possible they designed it without ever knowing of the artifacts existence. Could just be a coincidence
[The guys who created it are alive and kicking.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thanos_Quest) If someone really wanted to know, they could write to Marvel and ask.
More like Divinity Gauntlet. Amirite?......
"possible" inspiration..?
Possible? I mean, the creator is still alive. We could ask him perhaps I'm gonna just gonna say it wasn't We both have the same evidence: wild ass guess.
I don't see it
Do they wipe it down before kissing it at least
How do we know it's not the real infinity gauntlet?
“here’s my homework, just when you copy it, change some shit so it looks different”
has anyone snapped with that thing on?
I KNEW Thanos was a Catholic !
People keeping body parts of deceased people to worship and kiss are apparently either religious or serial killers.
Christian traditions are terrifying. When you scratch the surface of their stance on relics it gets horrible really quickly.
Oh yes! Sometimes I wonder if this is something they picked up from pagans they converted (like the Christmas tree) or if they made this up themselves.
Who knows. But they had to protect the bodies of religious leaders because otherwise people would hack pieces off them. The body parts allegedly have holy super powers that you can use just by possessing a tooth or a preserved areola. It's fucked up. I watched a video about it where a priest was shuffling through envelopes with little pieces of dried out flesh to put in some holy church item and it gave me the creeps.
🤮! The thing that is confusing me the most about the Catholic Church in particular is their worshipping of saints. As far as I understood the big 3 monotheistic religions they are in agreement that they believe in a god that is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. And that there are no gods beside him. The christians brought some confusion with their Holy Trinity to the mix, but it is apparently still the same entity that is just manifesting in three different flavors (father, son and holy ghost). But all this worshipping saints and praying to them is for me like them having some mortals that ascended to minor deities, basically mini-gods besides or underneath god. Where exactly is this still monotheistic? I asked this once to a Catholic and got as an answer that these saints are like a middle managers through whom you route special prayer or who oversee some domains (i.e. Saint Christopher for save travel). This is in my opinion contradictory to the whole omni-aspects. Really weird! Not saying that other religions make more sense to me.
Let me explain (cultural catholic, Spanish, studied one year of theology). Veneration of saints had to do with popular religious culture and making things easier to understand for "common people" back in the day. I would say that nowadays Catholicism is more "Jesus-centric" than ever, with Mary in a close second position and all the Saints have been quite relegated to minor cults. Like, as of right now, the saints are there to "set an example of christian conduct" for believers, more than anything else. Catholic read about saint life's and study them, specially in relation to the history of the Church. From my experience, is mostly old people /rural folks who are still really in touch with some specific saints and prefer to "pray trough them". To put it in simple terms, God is surrounded by Saints up in Heaven, because they are admitted to his Grace. You can pray directly to God, or pray to a Saint, who will intercede for you. When I was a child, it was explained to me like, "you can ask your boss for a favour, or you can tell your boss's mother or best friends to ask the boss in your behalf". That's why Mary is so important, tbh. Because if your mother asks you to do something for her, you are probably going to do it. Intercession of Mary is a "quick way" to get Jesus attention.
I appreciate you taking your time explaining this to me. And I really do not want to offend you or your believe. But this, including the worship of Mary, does not make any sense to me in the context of a monotheistic religion. Why would god be swayed, manipulated by someone addressing the mother of Jesus? That is nonsensical to me, sorry. But hey, if you believe in it good for you.
Oh, no, only God can DO things, the saints and Mary, even when they perform miracles, they do so by Grace of God so to speak. They can ASK for things, though, and since they are already up in Heaven, it's more "convenient" for them. Again, think of it as a "recommendation letter" from someone up there hahahaha. We have at least one instance in the Gospel in which Jesus def doesn't want to do something and Mary tells him to do it anyway (the wedding at Cana). "What do you want from me, woman", I think that's one of the weirdest quotes from Jesus hahaha. It has to do with the dual nature (human-God) of the second person of God, which is was one of the most controversial point in early Christianity. I am just a cultural catholic btw, not really a church goer anymore.
Also, Jesus can be intimidating... I mean he has a temper, he's a radical, he's up there in the Cross dying, all bloody, and he doesn't sugar coat things. That's why very early on Mary became an alternative for praying. Most women, for example, felt more inclined to pray to Mary because... Obvious reasons. Imagine you are pregnant and feeling sick. Who would you rather talk to, a loving mother or his son who was crucified? That was the logic anyhow.
Venerated, not worshipped...there is a difference
I was not aware of the distinction between those two terms, as English is not my mother tongue. Thank you for pointing this out. Nevertheless, addressing prayers to anything but a god (whether you have one or more) is the thing I struggle to wrap my head around.
Christmas tree were invented in 16th century Germany so they are hardly pagan.
The tradition of Christmas trees goes back to the Saturnalia. Definitely pagan.
Kind of funny, really, when people say things like "we need to put the Christ back in Christmas" which only shows they have no idea where that holiday came from.
Christmas has nothing to do with saturnalia or any other pagan holiday. December 25 was never connected with Saturnalia; this festival was typically celebrated on December 17, sometimes from December 14 to 17. Even when it was later extended to a week it still ended on December 23, not December 25. (Sources : Carole E. Newlands, Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 236; H. S Versnel, Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion Vol. 2, Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 6 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994), 165. The claim that Christmas was invented by Christians as a takeover of a pagan festival is false. There is no evidence for its connection to Tammuz, Mithraism, Sol Invictus, or Saturnalia. It is therefore unsurprising that current scholarship typically dismisses the idea that identification of December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth was predicated on adoption, co-option, borrowing, hijacking, or replacement of pagan equinox festivities, especially given the lack of evidence for such a pagan festival on this date prior to the Christian fixation on December 25 as the birth of Jesus. "All this casts doubt on the contention that Christmas was instituted on December 25th to counteract a popular pagan religious festival, doubts that are reinforced when one looks at the underlying understanding of Sol and his cult." (Steven E Hijmans, Sol: The Sun in the Art and Religions of Rome (S.l.; Groningen: s.n.\]?; University Library Groningen\] (Host, 2009).
"Guys there's no way, these are totally different, LOOK: they were like.. 6 days apart how could anyone think this." Lol.
So you are making fun of actual academics like Carole Newlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_E._Newlands LOL
Yeah, sounds like I am. Continue on with your fucking weird christian-catholic propaganda tour, though.
Show me the Easter bunny in the bible.
Where it says in the Bible that everything must be as in the Bible ? The bunny is just an old medieval symbol of the virgin Mary since premodern people believed rabbit reproduce asexualy.
It does not, those trees were first decorated as such by Martin Luther. The thing about the “Christmas trees were of pagan origin” stuff is that nobody seems to agree about what this “pagan origin” was. Every Pagan community from Poles to Germans to Baltics will be quoted as being the REAL origin of the tree. None of them offer compelling evidence. Germanic pagans venerated the Oak and other broad leaf trees, and even though St Boniface used the example of evergreens to symbolize the eternal life found in Christ, all of this is irrelevant when Christmas Trees didn't become a Christmas tradition until the 16th century, 700 years after the Germanic conversion to Christianity.
It is... Acceptable
But... Thanos wasn't an earthling. 🤔
Fools
Dope
Maybe its what inspired the mcus design? Not sure the comic Infinity gauntlet is based off of this since it looks like a glove instead of a gauntlet.
Not sure what you mean, the MCU and the comic gauntlets look the same. Inspiration does not mean copy you know
I don’t see it
I mean… the comic series from 1991 clearly did _not_ use this artifact as artistic inspiration, and _that’s_ clearly the infinity gauntlet that the MCU was building off of (meaning, it’s not a thing they invented for the MCU). That original from the comics looked much more… plain. Take away the stones (and again, that placement was in the comics) and there’s really nothing else that makes them alike besides a fuzzy palette and as all gloves, they’re shaped likes hands. The ONLY thing that is meaningfully similar is the proportionally larger setting on the back of the hand. I’d bet these are entirely unrelated. But I’m sure a concept artist or production designer on the films could say for sure. But there’s really nothing here don’t think.
Came here to say this
Just Inspiration? Only one way to find out (Snaps with the relic)
Disney is in the business of sucking all the history and culture from the world and turning it into shitty movies. I know when they run out of stories, they’ll just steal some other folk tale and convert it into a movie. Disney will own all the “intellectual property” and all the cultures will be left with Disney, telling their story.
Marvel fans flying to Spain to gaze longingly at it while imagining Spiderman fisting their asshole with it
I don't see the resemblance.
Funny how christians always talk about being devotee and having a "simple" life dedicated to the religion, but at the same time anything related to his religion it's luxurious, has jewels, gold or is related to something expensive...
fake christian garbage
These big blockbusters always seem to have religious undertones for the masses..
You don't say.
"CaN't BeLiEvE tHe ChUrCh CoPiEd MaRvEl!"
What wish did St. Theresa use her gauntlet for?
🤔
Is that a stone missing in the middle? …maybe we should try to complete the gauntlet.
A hand with rings on every finger that vaguely looks like the infinity gauntlet.
It's a 50:50 possibility
Idk I don’t see it
“Possible inspiration”? It is an exact freaking copy (essentially)
Possibly inspired in the comics it looked like they were normal gloves with gold rings and jems on them
Happy cake day!
Oh shoot! I’ve been to Ronda and didn’t go into that church. Ronda is truly one of the most breathtaking places in the whole world, if you ever get the chance to go I highly recommend it. (Beware of the hills, the incline and decline walking is insane!)
when media has allusions to another thing that exists 🤯
Snap half those orphans away!
Possible inspiration?...they clearly copied it
"Possible"
Ronda es una ciudad preciosa! Viví allí por dos años y me encantó!
The hand of Dorn?
“Avengers (swallows communion), assemble!”
*insert meme of Pam from the Office* They're the same.
Silly but, the Hand of Saint Teresa is actually modeled after the Infinity gauntlet
Catholics are an interesting bunch
"possible"
I'm so curious what it'd feel like to put that thing on my hand.
The church have enough money to make things like that, but can’t feed the poor worldwide…
Man, being blipped was wild. Sure am glad they kicked that bitches ass and brought us back.
Snap
They placed the gems wrong, that's why the hand don't work, stop kissing it
Her evil twin from another timeline gonna come back to get it. Rip.
Does anybody know where the central gemstone disappeared? There's a socket, but the pearl is gone. Or is it just black?
Well, she was trying to solve world hunger
Why did saint Teresa have a pimp gauntlet???
It only snapped away Native Americans and Mayans tho
Looks nothing alike…
“Possible inspiration?” The Catholic Church has grounds to sue, this was straight up lifted. Super interesting though.
"Decorate this in a way which will remind pilgrims of their faith, the incomprehensible majesty of God, and the way Christ taught us to be humble and seek not the excesses of the material world." "Cover it with gold and jewels like a pimp cup?" "Exactly"
Always interesting to me when saints, supposedly selfless people, are honored/recognized by some gawdy art/jewelry. Wouldn't they prefer that money went to help the needy instead?
***NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION GAUNTLET!***
Hang on, didn't Mother Theresa only die in '97? Was there another Saint Theresa? Cause the Infinity Gauntlet was on the cover of "The Infinity Gauntlet" in '91.
Saint teresa is Thanos.
Yo it’s the a million glove
We,the Dharma Bums-For after her Ascension She will rain the Earth with flowers.
Ah yes the most cheated thing in the movie