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Probably more generally from the censers used in Catholic (and Episcopal and a few others) “high church” Masses. The smoke of the burning incense is literally “holy smoke.”
Yeah, it was decided during the great schism, that we should say, “Holy Smokes” when that happens to differentiate from the Eastern Orthodox version of “Sacremental Steam”, because fuck them and their goddamn beards.
My dad was Catholic. My mom was Eastern Orthodox. Both are Americans, both sets of grandparents are from former Yugoslavia ( different parts). Everyone is atheist now. But I still had to go learn about both churches, and man… they’re the fucking same in every aspect except the long beards and iconography, and 25 years later, I don’t think I could even tell you who cares about what.
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Well fuck, that makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
no
Nah it’s referencing Jesus smoking a cig
“Holy Smokes” isn’t about the Pope, but “Holy Shit” is.
It does now
IDK there are all kinds of holies.
holy smoke(s)
holy cannoli
holy cow
holy mackerel
holy s***
holy hell in a handbasket
(and it gets more creative from there)
Holy smokes!
It is probably related to the term ‘burnt offering’
It does now.
Probably more generally from the censers used in Catholic (and Episcopal and a few others) “high church” Masses. The smoke of the burning incense is literally “holy smoke.”
My Grandfather b. 1898 used to say ” Holy smoke the church burnt down “
Idk, but as a really young catholic kid I crossed myself by saying, “In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Smokes.”
It comes from the use of censers in church (the incense burners they swing around)
Edit: spelling
Yeah, it was decided during the great schism, that we should say, “Holy Smokes” when that happens to differentiate from the Eastern Orthodox version of “Sacremental Steam”, because fuck them and their goddamn beards.
My dad was Catholic. My mom was Eastern Orthodox. Both are Americans, both sets of grandparents are from former Yugoslavia ( different parts). Everyone is atheist now. But I still had to go learn about both churches, and man… they’re the fucking same in every aspect except the long beards and iconography, and 25 years later, I don’t think I could even tell you who cares about what.
Love y’all.
No, it refers to Ras Tafari smokin’ a spliff
“Hocus pocus” is a corruption of “Hoc est corpus” from the Latin mass.
I always thought it came from burning the palms of palm sunday for the ashes for ash Wednesday
I’m here to support the Jeanne d’Arc version.
My father told me that is what one of the popes said when there was a fire in the Vatican.
I always assumed it just was a ‘kid friendly’ version of “holy shit”.
Holy Diver
I remember hearing that it comes from soldiers rolling cigarettes with pages from bibles.
Gonna blow your mind when you find out where the word epiphany comes from.
😀 😃 🙂
Who knew that Robin was a papal scholar?
I always assumed it was southern churchy people trying to not swear, like my grandfather would say things like “dagnabbit” or “Sam Hill”
Holy shit is easy enough to soften into holy smokes