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Church kicks out priest and the staff of his gaming website quits after he imitates Elon Musk's Inauguration Day salute during an anti-abortion speech

www.pcgamer.com Gamer priest defrocked and the staff of his God is a Geek website quits after he imitates Elon Musk's salute

"Those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust," said the Anglican Catholic Church.

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Church kicks out priest and the staff of his gaming website quits after he imitates Elon Musk's Inauguration Day salute during an anti-abortion speech

www.pcgamer.com /gaming-industry/calvin-robinson-defrocked-god-is-a-geek-staff-resigns/

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I do find it crazy that pcgamer is reporting this, because the rest of the news media has just faceplanted on journalism. Reminds me of the Bush Admin, when Rolling Stone Magazine was one of the only reliable sources of news thanks to the extreme corruption within the major publications.
- During the first trump presidency, teen vogue was doing the actual journalism and it was crazy
  
  Until they shut it down, Buzzfeed News had become one of the better news organizations.
  
  Kinda crazy when they subvert expectations like that sometimes and actually prove themselves as a journalist.
  You'd think a journalist for Teen Vogue or Cosmopolitan would be a hack and then all of a sudden they drop some in-depth, well written op-ed that makes you go "what? How?.."
  Like I said elsewhere, I've actually got a couple copies of Rolling Stone from the opening weeks/months of the Iraq Invasion (their somewhere in my personal library) and the comparison to issues from before the war is staggering. Their journalists were actually really good and when they weren't being told to write a bunch of gobbledygook about a has-been one hit wonder, they were really capable journalists.
- Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.
  Oh the memories.
- I'm sure Teen Cosmo has some great coverage as well.
- Over in the UK, this got picked up by the mainstream papers. Maybe he is more well known over here. He is the type to often gets headlines for his outrageous comments.

Well, the great news is that this guy doesn't look anything like a god-damned villain...
- He looks like he stuck his tongue in the toaster.
  
  Maybe just an off day, could be that he just got up on the wrong side of the swastika shaped bed this morning...
- If you asked me what Thunderf00t would look like if he became a priest instead of a scientist/youtuber this is what id imagine.
  
  Nailed it
- Does anybody know why hes wearing a mic while speaking into another mic?
  
  Musk's department of government efficiency arranged the A/V for the event
  
  To counterbalance the two stick up in his ass
  
  He hates Jews.
  
  Probably being filmed.
  It's rare that filming will want the same feed as is going to a PA. Sometimes they have to due to logistics, but they will moan about it
- Every picture I've seen of him is different, and they're all awful.

It is very funny that there are so many examples of people basically saying, "It wasn't a Nazi salute, watch I'll show you," and then immediately ruining their lives by doing it.
- They were already one half lost if they believed it was innocent in the first place.
  
  I'm sure most of them just believed they could get away with it and then abruptly realized they did not have the same power and influence as the richest man on Earth.
  
  They don’t really believe it’s innocent, they just want it to be ok to hate.
- Besides this one, what are the others?
  I could use some schadenfreude in my day
  
  This lady who had to resign from her town council after doing it. I thought there was at least one other, but I can't find it now.

People with no billions to protect them are finding out.

This guy looks like he tried to fuck a power outlet.

I mean church in the loosest sense of the word since it was literally only created in 1997 as an offshoot because they didn't like women becoming ordained.
- No, that's a church in every sense of the word. That is a normal thing for Christian Churches to do.
- Describes a lot of churches origins, many people wanted to move forward and a healthy chunk wanted to go backwards in response.
- Anglican Catholic Church
  The church part of the name isn't what really gets me. How can a schisim(from the episcopalians) of an offshoot(from the church of England) of a schisim(from the Catholic Church) proclaim itself katholikos (universal).
  
  Meanings of words evolve. They're refering to the belief system rather than to the original meaning and ethymology. But when you know it does sound funny.
- Why didn't you mention that in the article, then?

How old is this photo? He definitely didn't have that hair in the actual clip. Why is this the shot being used instead of one from the actual day of?

the fact that two mostly unrelated consequences are tied together with "and" in the title had me laughing

Isn't he like, part black, or of ethnic descent at least? Should be more aware of dog whistles like that damned Nazi salute. It ain't callin in the Border Collie's for dinner...

Awww, people are realizing a Nazi salute has consequences. Good for him!
Like all billionaires, Elon can (unfortunately) do whatever the fuck he wants and he will be okay. If your boss isn't fasscy then you're gonna get wrecked.

Ah yes. Elon's salute. The famous salute. Sounds OK to me if it's just a salute. Is there some simple way to describe this salute, to give the reader an idea if it's a good or a bad salute? I wonder if there would be a precise description for this salute, my dear journos?
Ah yes it's a nazi salute, of course. Easy to forget this adjective, since it's completely harmless and very mundane.
- Oh yes, some people did recognise that the arm gesture in question may have been used by the Romans. Very neutral, we all know the Romans were around a long time ago, so..
  
  I bet this amuses you 😁
  https://youtu.be/DIwPVQP2fZA

- Obviously they're both doing a Roman Salute!
  (Doesn't even need a /s because the Nazi salute is literally the so-called Roman Salute)
  
  It's just the ~~nazi~~ fascist salute. There's no evidence that ancient greeks or romans ever did this.
  https://www.factchecker.gr/2025/01/28/the-nazi-salute-does-not-have-ancient-greek-or-roman-origins/
- People is going crazy with these b/w filter just to make variations of Elon's salute.
- You're clearly trying to paint Elon in a bad light! Why did you leave out the footage of the Romans doing it huh?

You can just say "Does a nazi salute"
- Yeah, stop giving Elon a perpetual boner by calling this an "Elon" salute. Give credit where credit is due. Like you could say, I just took a giant Elon and everyone would indeed know what you meant, but you really should just say you took a big shit.

Need more of this. More pointing out the consequences which exist for anyone but the super rich. More pointing out how we are gaslighted to believe "it's not a Nazi salute".

It’s a Inauguration Day nazi salute. Tell it like it is.

This guy worships the "Turn the other cheek" guy, right?
The "love your neighbors" guy?
The "unconditional love" guy?
Just want to make sure I fully understand.
- Nah, at the "leadership" level Religion is just another kind of scam.
  It's only the riff-raff who are genuinely believers in that stuff and even those pick and chose the parts of it they follow (you will notice that, for example, almost none of the "believers" in Abrahamic religions care about God's Commandment against Greed or the lesson of Jesus kicking out the Money Lenders from the Temple).
- No. He's lying about that part. He worships his own ego.
- You understand, he… does not

"While we cannot say what was in Mr. Robinson's heart when he did this, his action appears to have been an attempt to curry favor with certain elements of the American political right by provoking its opposition," reads a statement posted by the Anglican Catholic Church on Wednesday. "Mr. Robinson had been warned that online trolling and other such actions (whether in service of the left or right) are incompatible with a priestly vocation and was told to desist. Clearly, he has not, and as such, his license in this Church has been revoked. He is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC."

"Nazi salute"
FTFY

it was just a joke bro, just get on the train, trust me bro
- Proverbs 26:18-19
  Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
  Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!”

... Gamer Priest?
I am just imagining like a Christian BF42 server that bans you for swearing, but a lan party of such people, in a church.
- They only play Christian games, like Binding of Isaac
- He truly was banned from the Christian Minecraft server

lol! Basically it’s-
Nazi Sympathizer Does Nazi Salute. Watch It Now On X!
I’d say you can’t write shit like this… but here we are, reading an article about a Nazi that links to video of the repugnant act- hosted on a Nazi-run social media platform.

Say Nazi in the title, you fucking cowards. Sprinkle on some allegedly if you have to. You know goddamn well what it was.
- I don't think it's cowardice, I think it's a very purposefully trying to normalizing it.

It's hilarious to me to see something actually get a priest kicked out of the Catholic church.
- He's not Catholic.
  
  Wouldn’t “Anglican Catholic Church” mean he’s Catholic? (Genuine question!)

The irony is, just by looking at him, this is exactly the type of person Hitler wanted to exterminate.

Good. Fuck nazis.

I saw the video of this a little earlier. He smirked with the "My heart goes out to you" part. 🤢
I heard he almost wasn't confirmed in the church in the first place, but I didn't know about the gaming website editorial staff resigning. Wow.
- He literally wasn't ordained by the Anglican Church because of his "anti woke" views. He joined a knock off church which wasn't desperately to be part of the catholic church (but, and I can't stress this enough, isn't at all). He's cosplaying being a vicar for clout while being a fucking worse bigot than two of the largest organised denominations.
  
  Interesting. I only heard about him yesterday so I was going off reports I came across, all of which seem to treat him as having been an Anglican priest and one of which added he almost wasn't ordained, but later was. Are you from the area? I know it's certainly easy for one media outlet to make an error that is then echoed by almost every other one.

I'm sorry, the staff of his what? Why? What the fuck?
- It's 2025, some of the gamer priests are Nazis. Please try to keep up, it will only get wilder
  
  Yeah, the Nazi who's an Anglican Catholic priest runs a gamer website. Sure, it sounds like Mad Libs, but it's just 2025.

Next Week:
In an Apparent Homage to American Patriot Charles Manson, Elon Musk Tattoos Awkward Good Luck Symbol on his Forehead.
Week After:
Former Anglican Priest Imitates Elon Musk's Awkward Forehead Tattoo to Support the Pro-Life Movement
- If only they would do the rest of us the courtesy of visibly branding themselves like that..

That's one unusual looking fellow. Perhaps he could find a new job as a mad scientist of sorts?

The fuck is an Anglican Catholic church?!
- The church Henry the 8th started when the Pope wouldn't let him get divorced. It and Catholicism have traded places as the UKs official state religion a few times over the years, causing absolutely no problems whatsoever.
  
  Yeah the Anglican church is not the Catholic church, protestants and Catholics have been fighting about this for centuries.
- One of the 1000000 spin-offs of Christianity.
  
  Anglican and Catholic are two of the largest distinct and separate branches of Christianity. You can't just mash them together, it doesn't work like that.

Well, the way its going.. its turning into an anti-far left salute.
- a nazi salute is pretty much anti-everyone, man.
  
  First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
  
  I see your emotional appeal aligns perfectly with the straw-man argument you're presenting.

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