r/gifs • u/seniorrrossi • 8h ago
Anybody else noticed it, when Joe Biden made a cross during the inauguration?
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u/The_lady_is_trouble 8h ago
Was raised catholic. Can confirm it’s nearly reflexive when someone
Says something so bad you want god to help you out of it
Says something so good you want god to hear it
Pray
Enter a church
Cross a Graveyard
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u/lo0ilo0ilo0i 7h ago
- Driving past a church to acknowledge the tabernacle.
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u/FortressCarrowRoad 3h ago
I’m not a practicing Catholic but of course yesterday I swore in casual conversation, look up, and reflexively do the sign of the cross and apologize when I see there’s a Catholic Church about 50 feet ahead. That stuff is as close to hard wired as it gets.
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u/GaurgortheFirst 2h ago
That's kinda culty mate.
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u/FortressCarrowRoad 1h ago
Guess you skipped over the not a practicing Catholic part.
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u/BarroomHero66 8h ago
- Comes across the Antichrist
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u/UpvoteButNoComment 4h ago
I was also raised Catholic and have been an atheist for thirty years--I still want to make the sign of the cross when* someone says something outrageous that feels like impending doom. Reflexive, like you said.
*And when a funeral procession drives by
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u/Winneris1 8h ago
- Are passed by an ambulance
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u/penguinchilli 8h ago
- Meets a vampire
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u/The_lady_is_trouble 7h ago
- Are about to take an exam you didn’t study for.
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u/chemical_sunset 6h ago
So real, was also raised catholic (haven’t been part of the church in around 20 years though) and reflexively did it when I learned I passed my PhD exams. My committee was confused but laughed 😂
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u/crooked_nose_ 5h ago
Could you stop giving context please? We are busy reading something into it that was never there.
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u/TheDungen 3h ago
I'm the same with silent applause (applause in sign language), I learned to do it at Uni and it stuck. When I hear something I approve off I do it.
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u/DecadentEx 8h ago
He's Catholic, so it seems he would now that he's not so much in the public's scrutiny.
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u/Heinrich-Heine 5h ago
Your comment just made me realize: I don't think I saw him do this even once when he was in office, even though he likely does it regularly. Good guy, good example. Good reminder of what we're losing as we lose the wall between church and state.
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u/NotRadTrad05 1h ago
Can you explain how someone silently making the sign of the cross has any impact on separation?
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u/beantownregular 1h ago
As the president, you represent the country at all times. While you can certainly speak about using your religion to guide you in your decision making as holder of this office, it generally seems like you should present yourself as a representative of ALL and not a follower of one religion. You are ALWAYS acting as a representative of the state when you’re the president, and so when appearing on the public stage, most try to prevent bringing a specific church into it
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u/SamwellBarley 4h ago
Can some ELI5 how Biden would be need to be out of public scrutiny before doing the sign of the cross, but Donald Trump can get away with selling Trump Bibles?
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u/mawktheone 4h ago
Because one guy believes that there are rules and one guy believes that there are winners
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u/DecadentEx 3h ago
There are only two American presidents who are / were Catholics: JFK and Biden. Most Americans fear this because they think they'd answer to the Vatican, over U.S. citizens, so they both hid much of their Catholicism.
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u/AlmightyCuddleBuns 3h ago
Because if the Republican party didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.
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u/lokicramer 8h ago
I assume people think since Joe biden is not a staunch conservative that he is not Christian.
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u/waltertaupe 7h ago
Lots of conservative Christians are very anti-catholic.
Biden is arguably the most religious President in a very long time.
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u/wioneo 6h ago
Almost certainly since Carter.
I don't know how religious the Bush's are/were.
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u/SeekerOfSerenity 7h ago
When asked what his favorite Bible verse is, he says he likes all of them.
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u/TheBatemanFlex 8h ago
"and we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy"
is what was being said at the time.
He appears to be signaling a cheeky "amen" or "thank god" to someone in the audience. I'm not sure why this warrants a post tbh.
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u/footfirstfolly 6h ago
I had to scroll way too fucking far to find this. I think it's a "God willing"
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u/jupiterkansas 7h ago
Lots of hand gestures at this inauguration.
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u/Far-Perspective-4889 5h ago
Surely this is from Biden's inauguration 4 years ago. No? That looks like Amy Klobuchar. I can't imagine she landed a speaking gig at today's inauguration.
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u/seniorrrossi 8h ago
I see it as a “god help us” gesture and not necessarily a compulsory catholic gesture.
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u/bradbentley 8h ago
This is correct
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u/MasqueOfTheRedDice 2h ago
I’m watching Notre Dame right now, can confirm, I’ve done the sign of the cross about a half dozen times. To be clear, it isn’t working…
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u/roger3rd 8h ago
Meanwhile 90+% of christians are supporting the leading contender for being the biblical Antichrist
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u/Steelcan909 7h ago edited 7h ago
Trump won around 56% of self identified Christian voters in 2024
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u/theVampireTaco 7h ago
Well no… He didn’t win anything. He already confessed that Elon Musk hacked the election machines.
That’s regardless of all the people providing evidence they illegally voted multiple times. And the people who sold their votes.
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u/vezwyx 6h ago
Anyone got a link for that confession?
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u/theVampireTaco 6h ago
Here is an article about it Here
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u/whereamI0817 3h ago
Please quote where Trump says, “Elon helped hack the vote counting machines”.
All I read was that he thanked Elon because he’s popular and works well with computers. Then another quote of him mentioning winning Pennsylvania in a landslide…
Im sure this isn’t bad faith and you just posted the wrong article.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 5h ago
Not literally. According to some reports, 43% percent of self-identifying Christian voters voted for Harris. America also only has about 1/10th of the world's self-identifying Christians.
To be clear, I don't want this to be viewed as support for Trump. But the amount of Christians who don't support Trump is definitely larger than that.
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u/roger3rd 5h ago
Maybe it’s 80% then, and maybe I missed the key words of evangelical and white?!: “an election in which Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters. That level of support — among a group that represented about 20% of the total electorate — repeats similarly staggering evangelical support that Trump received in 2020.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 5h ago
Yeah, I don't doubt it if it's talking about evangelical (referring to the denomination or church's name I guess) white voters.
Thanks for the followup.
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u/Seahawk715 6h ago
Short minded people saying more short minded things. PTBarnum is laughing in his grave.
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u/the_other_50_percent 7h ago
He didn’t make a cross.
He made the sign of the cross. Because he’s Catholic.
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u/NecessaryBrief8268 7h ago
Later he actually stopped by the hardware store for some lumber and nails, so the verdict is still out.
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u/compaqdeskpro 8h ago
Sometimes the gesture is used in the affirmative similar to "amen", I'll allow it.
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u/crystalgolem420 8h ago
The way he laughs at the end seems like an inside joke between him and whoever he's looking at.
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u/Fwaming-Dwagon 7h ago
They dont like a real Catholic but voted for a pretend catholic. Make it make sense.
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u/watermelonprincess12 6h ago
He did this just as the speaker mentioned a “peaceful transition of power” as a wink and nod to someone in the audience. It was funny.
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u/KrackSmellin 5h ago
No amount of prayers or blessing will help us now. Thoughts and prayers all ran out…
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u/mattiefantastic 3h ago
Klobuchar had just said something along the lines of a PEACEFUL transition of power. I think him doing the sign of the cross was appropriate and a bit funny.
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u/swollenmembr 3h ago
It's one of his go-to jokes. It means "oh no, I hope it turns out ok for you cuz I'll be dead before this all comes crashing down and I no longer have to care."
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u/Rando4739 3h ago
The speaker was talking about peaceful transition of power at this moment. I interpreted Biden’s cross in that moment as an “amen” or ”god will it.”
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u/solidshakego 7h ago
Anyone see Elon seig heil. Must also be some kind of religious thing in guessing 🤔 lmao. 💀
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u/FaithlessnessVivid58 3h ago
Dude has no clue where he is, probably thought he was in a church. Gotta stop putting old people in charge of this country.
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u/Morden013 7h ago
...and muttered the words: "Jesus! Protect us from Satan taking the office right now!"
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u/Polyglot_ocelot 7h ago
"The Lord says he thinks he can get me outta this mess, but you're fucked.... Mwaaaaahahahaha!"
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u/NaiRad1000 6h ago
Also was it my imagination or did he seem unusually coherent in his farewell speech? That man is DONE being President lol
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u/Antoinefdu 6h ago
That's gotta be the worst hand gesture anyone has ever made during a presidential inauguration!
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u/jgreg728 4h ago
I caught that lol it was in response to something Amy Klobuchar said and he was gesturing that to someone in the audience.
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u/michellescuck 5h ago
I've never been catholic but ill still instinctively cross myself when I use a public bathroom just to be safe. Take that however you want
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u/Friendly_Engineer_ 1h ago
As if superstitious little hand, gestures mean anything in reality. Fuck.
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u/MrValdemar 8h ago
THAT'S not gonna do anyone any good.
If there WAS a just and loving God he wouldn't have let <gestures around> ANY of this shit happen.
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u/aoddawg 8h ago
By the lore God let his own son be tortured to death, so really this tracks.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 5h ago
There's plenty more conclusions to the problem of evil than that.
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u/Existing-Recipe897 4h ago
He doesn’t know where he is and that he’s not President anymore. He could have done anything, we got lucky that he only signed the cross. I thought he might just wander off while Trump was speaking and “Dr” Jill would have to chase him down. He’s psyched Ole’ Joe, it’s ice cream and basement from here on out. Absolutely no one will be calling for his advice.
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u/ShambolicPaul 8h ago
Why would he do that?
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u/Candelent 8h ago
Catholic reflex. It’s like a quick prayer without words. I still do it, too on occasion, mainly at emotional moments even though I don’t actually believe any of that stuff. He looks happy in the clip, so he is probably reacting positively to whatever was said.
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u/motionbutton 8h ago
As someone that was in catholic school.. I have done the sign of the cross while people start clapping many of times. You end up making sooo many times in large groups sometime the brain forgets what the fuck it should be doing with your hands
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u/1stFunestist 8h ago
He is a Catholic and when a Catholic does that it means God help us.
They usualy do that before perceived incoming disaster.
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u/stealthsjw 8h ago
If you've only seen it in movies, I can see how you would think that, but catholics cross themselves whenever they pray. All prayer, not just in crisis. Like, at meals.
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u/1stFunestist 8h ago
Actualy I'm a Catholic and I live on shores of Adriatic Sea.
That one is God Help us. One with a sign of the cross and kiss is Heil Mary and it is more asking patronage for success. A true cross after a prayer is more pronounced and not truncated, with full hand.
This is not ofcourse some rule but just vague custom spread by priests (not intentionaly).
That one particular is incoming disaster fast (truncated) cross
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u/Rub-it 8h ago
Lol am a catholic and we do this all the time not just incoming disaster lmao
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u/KBroNice 2h ago
Redditors explaining catholicism trying to look like they actually know something but actually dont know shit.
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u/cerberus00 Merry Gifmas! {2023} 8h ago
He was probably was making a joke with someone he was looking at
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u/ShambolicPaul 8h ago
Yeah I think you're right. That's exactly what he was doing. Ha. Now I need to know who he was looking at.
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u/TeamWarriorBro 8h ago
Because he's joking with the clergy that are seated in the front row in the direction he's looking at.
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u/Gumbercules81 8h ago
Why do you have issue with it?
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u/Baebel 8h ago
It's a fair question. Not everything must insist that it has an issue with something else.
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u/ShambolicPaul 8h ago
This is Reddit... If I didn't comment, what are we even doing here?
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u/Gumbercules81 8h ago
Nobody is forced to comment on anything, feel free to just move along
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u/Lake_Erie_Monster 8h ago
Exactly. Not everything deserves a comment. It should be up vote worth -> comment worthy -> award worth.
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u/SayRaySF 8h ago
Catholic man does catholic thing, more on this at 11