Nazi like salute in church !?!?!

[baxter2231]

So I have noticed this in the past few years. I dont go to church often but for I believe to be the last few years or so there has been this new thing that they do each time. Everyone stands up and raises their right arms in the direction of the water and priest at one point and it lasts for a few minutes. Their arms are raised high and it looks like a Nazi rally. As a child they never did such a thing this is relatively new. Its a Roman catholic church so not sure if others do it. Has anyone else noticed this? I have googled and only found a few things commenting about it but no reasons for it.

 

[disappeared]

I attended Roman Catholic church services throughout my childhood and adolescence and not once did I ever do or see something like that.

Maybe it's a regional thing?

 

[Alpha Centauri]

The laying on of hands? It's about 2000 years old at this point.

 

[RangerX]

I haven't seen anything like that in church in my life.

 

[Yaboosh]

They are using their hands as antennas for the holy spirit. Or something.


It's been around forever, at least in the south.

 

[L Thammy]

1. I've never seen the thing you're describing.

2. The "Nazi salute", or at least things resembling it, wasn't an exclusively Nazi thing. Americans used to do something similar. You may be confusing an unrelated symbol for the Nazi salute.

 

[xxracerxx]

The laying on of hands? It's about 2000 years old at this point.

Googling this and it does not look like what the OP is describing.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

The laying on of hands? It's about 2000 years old at this point.

Nazis ruining everything.

 

[ClosingADoor]

Maybe it comes from the Roman salute? The nazi's got it from there also of course.

Do you have a picture, I have never heard of this happening?

 

[Fantastical]

Assuming you mean this

If so, not new at all. Saw that all the time as a kid.

 

[TheCochese]

So I have noticed this in the past few years. I dont go to church often but for I believe to be the last few years or so there has been this new thing that they do each time. Everyone stands up and raises their right arms in the direction of the water and priest at one point and it lasts for a few minutes. Their arms are raised high and it looks like a Nazi rally. As a child they never did such a thing this is relatively new. Its a Roman catholic church so not sure if others do it. Has anyone else noticed this? I have googled and only found a few things commenting about it but no reasons for it.

People raise their hands up all the time in overly evangelical denominations. Nothing to do with Nazis.

 

[RS4-]

Haven't seen that in Catholic Church. Or at Japanese, Korean ones either.

 

[Yaboosh]

This?


Not everybody uses both arms.

 

[randomhugs]

Are their fingers together or spread apart?

 

[L Thammy]

So Nazi-like.

Admittedly, I'm kind of wondering if OP has somehow gone through their life without having seen someone raise their hand. Maybe their teacher had a different system.

 

[UltraMav]

This?


Not everybody uses both arms.

Dang, those are some nice church seats.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Here's a pic i found of it:

Does look a bit like it to be fair.

 

[deadlast]

This?


Not everybody uses both arms.

2 arms is for better reception.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Googling this and it does not look like what the OP is describing.

I think he is referring to when RCIA members are becoming Catholic. As the priest blesses them with arms stretched out and hovering over the group, the crowd in unity does the same thing to welcome the new parishioners.

 

[Ray Wonder]

Went to an easter play and everytime someone said something that they liked, they put their hand up and that's what I thought too. But I just thought it was funny, because it's not a Nazi salute. Just a gesture.

 

[Yaboosh]

Here's a pic i found of it:

Does look a bit like it to be fair.

Ok that is Nazi-like.

 

[MKIL65]

Here's a pic i found of it:

Does look a bit like it to be fair.

Yep, that's the nazi salute. What the fuck.

 

[baxter2231]

Googling this and it does not look like what the OP is describing.

Its not the laying of the hands unless its a varient of it. The pics of that seem to be over someones head and the hands at or below the waist.

Assuming you mean this

If so, not new at all. Saw that all the time as a kid.

I have seen in videos some churches raise their hands like that pic but thats more straight up and down thats not what I saw.

Im in the northeast if that matters.

 

[baxter2231]

Here's a pic i found of it:

Does look a bit like it to be fair.

This looks like what I witnessed. Just like this.

 

[Regiruler]

Roman Catholic, I think I vaguely remember what you are talking about, but if I recall the context should make it obvious that it's unrelated to Nazism (it's symbolically laying on hands if I remember right, renewing your Catholic vows is more common and your arm is not extended, your right hand is just up).

The use of the gesture most likely predates Germany, let alone the Nazi party (I don't think it was something implemented in Vatican II).

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Yep, that's the nazi salute. What the fuck.

No it's not, ffs.

 

[MKIL65]

No it's not, ffs.

Yeah, I know.

They need to lower their hands a bit. But pretty close!

 

[nampad]

Roman catholic here and I can't recall anything like this. I had to go to church a lot when I was younger.
Guess it is a regional thing?

 

[L Thammy]

Here's a pic i found of it:

Does look a bit like it to be fair.

Huh, I guess I can understand the OP's reaction in this case. I've never seen this before. I'd imagine that it's supposed to be a Roman thing considering, well.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Yeah, I know.

They need to lower their hands a bit. But pretty close!

Again, no. Just because your raise your right arm out does not make it a nazi salute.

 

[I H8 Memes]

This?

 

[cr0w]

I was in the grocery store and I saw a guy reach above his head with his right hand to grab a bag of Sweet Spicy Chili Doritos, was he saluting the delicious new flavor? Is Sweet Spicy Chili the official Dorito of the Nazi party?

 

[Kite]

Google image search says it might be the "Charismatic Movement", lots of the images posted here and similar ones link back to it.

 

[Fury451]

Common gesture. Not common for a Roman Catholic service though far as I've experienced.

You sometimes see it in Protestant/non-denominational services, often in Charismatic churches; sometimes the left or right arm only, others both arms. It's an act of worship, blessing or prayer also, not sinister.

It's not a Nazi salute and it predates Nazis by hundreds of years at the least.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

No it's not, ffs.

For many, context doesn't matter. The Catholic Church, already the slowest changing force in history, has a practice that predates Naziism by nearly two millenia and must clearly be referring to the Nazi salute every time they do this.

Give me a break lol.

Whether the Church should further modernize is a discussion worth having though.

This?

The Nazis get em young!

 

[J.ceaz]

They're really just reaching their hands out in prayer nothing sinister about it.

 

[Hades Hotgun]

Here's a pic i found of it:

Does look a bit like it to be fair.

Yeah, I could see the way some of those folks have their arms up being misconstrued without proper context, but a lot of them either have their arms up at a high angle or their palm forward, in either case very clearly not at all Nazi-esque.

Seems like a matter of, "hmm, this kinda reminds me of a zeig heil, but obviously it isn't."

 

[Lord Fagan]

This silliness needs to stop.

Not everybody raising a semi-flattened hand in front of them above their shoulder is a nazi. Sometimes they're waving, or symbolically reaching.

When they start talking about white-superiority and wearing swastika pins, that's one thing. But getting wigged out about this is like thinking everybody doing the "A-okay" pinch gesture is calling you an asshole.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

They're really just reaching their hands out in prayer nothing sinister about it.

Yeah this. This thread is hilarious

 

[nullref]

Yeah, I've seen that at my parents' church – also Roman Catholic, in Canada. Some sort of blessing, during a prayer. We didn't do that when I was a kid, so seems to be a newer thing.

Looks a bit like a Nazi salute I guess, but is obviously unrelated. And it's held a long time (the duration of a prayer), and not done as a crisp salute or anything. Nazi's don't have a monopoly on raising a hand like that.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

It's only a Nazi salute if you're a Nazi, or at least living in a country governed by Nazis.

I'm all for criticizing the church, but complaining that they don't abandon hand gestures they've been doing for 2000 years because the Nazis did something similar is pushing it.

 

[tuna_love]

This?


Not everybody uses both arms.

wtf, are they double nazis?

 

[Hex]

I was in the grocery store and I saw a guy reach above his head with his right hand to grab a bag of Sweet Spicy Chili Doritos, was he saluting the delicious new flavor? Is Sweet Spicy Chili the official Dorito of the Nazi party?

I was in class the other night and when the teacher asked something, I do not remember what it was some obviously Nazi skank raised her hand out in what could only be a Nazi salute so I did the only right thing and hit her with a chair.

 

[Coreda]

Those damn Nazis at it again. All this time those unsuspecting parishioners weren't joining in prayer or agreement but saluting the Fuehrer. This revelation might unsettle them. Better let them know gently.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Thread title says nazi like salute. Don't think op was saying they're actual nazis, was just confused by it.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

wtf, are they double nazis?

More German than German.

 

[Hex]

wtf, are they double nazis?

As you can see, using the double salute slowly alters your skin pigment so that you can fit in and infiltrate those of the darker persuasion

 

[Acorn]

I attended Roman Catholic church services throughout my childhood and adolescence and not once did I ever do or see something like that.

Maybe it's a regional thing?

Same here.

 

[platakul]

I was in the grocery store and I saw a guy reach above his head with his right hand to grab a bag of Sweet Spicy Chili Doritos, was he saluting the delicious new flavor? Is Sweet Spicy Chili the official Dorito of the Nazi party?

Dang do they still make those? my grocery store doesn't sell them anymore

 

[xxracerxx]

I think he is referring to when RCIA members are becoming Catholic. As the priest blesses them with arms stretched out and hovering over the group, the crowd in unity does the same thing to welcome the new parishioners.

Not sure where in the OP you are getting this...