As a recent convert to the fighting arts, I approach combat sports with the lunatic zeal of a rich 25-year-old who just discovered Catholicism. Unlike them, I don’t claim to know better than the Pope — I still believe that Bas Rutten is the Punch God’s representative on earth. I’m now hearing that Bas Rutten is also an adult Catholic convert, and that his conversion was spurred on by conversations by a man named “Chad Ripperger.” You could be forgiven for thinking that a man with that name was a professional wrestler rather than an insane exorcist who invented a typology of gay devils that puts the microlabel efforts of Tumblr teens to shame.

It’s fine, everyone’s got their quirks. Some people don’t like broccoli, others believe there are separate demonic generals for butch lesbians and the other kind that haunts the PornHub searches of priests angling to be the Mark Kern of r/CatholicGamers. That’s a real subreddit, of course, but I think we’ve been toiling in the Reddit muck enough lately.

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