this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025

543 points (99.3% liked)

Programmer Humor

25776 readers

1426 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

anzo@programming.dev

Feyter@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

543

Conditional Baptism (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This was before that - Avodah Zarah is the one I actually read through.

Like, you can't leave a barrel of mashed grapes too long, because it's then assumed a pagan broke in, danced on it and left, turning it into pagan wine which is the same as doing idolatry yourself, somehow. And it goes on.

There's other examples as well, of course. Puritans got worked up about Catholic-seeming practices within the Church of England, although I don't remember which ones, off the top of my head.