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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2013, 07:21:50 pm »
My inner imp would love to sneak a few tadpoles into that basin. I'm going to RC hell, I know I know.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2013, 09:38:20 pm »
Aww, don't be mean to tadpoles like that...
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2013, 12:48:52 am »
I thought holy water would be safe due to the way they prepare it.

They boil the Hell out of it!

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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2013, 01:32:50 am »
(When crickets chirp...they are laughing). I lol'ed :P
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2013, 01:33:44 pm »
I remember watching the priest drink holy water during my grandpa's funeral, and thinking how many kid hands had just been in that water.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2013, 01:48:11 pm »
Maybe he dosed it with vodka first? Funerals can be stressful to conduct sometimes.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2013, 04:35:44 pm »
The priest drank holy water?  Kid-handed holy water?

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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2013, 06:55:52 pm »
Quote from: Star Cluster on September 18, 2013, 05:55:48 pm
A few years ago, my wife and I were vacationing in Rome and we went to the Vatican just to go there and see it.  When we went into Saint Peters Cathedral, we noticed people going over to a basin mounted about 5-1/2 feet up on the wall, reaching up and dipping their hand into, and crossing themselves.  Some were even putting it on their baby's foreheads.  My wife went over so I could take a photo of her beside it and after I took it, she looked into the basin and a look of horror came over her face.  So I went over a looked in and it was filthy.  There was a visible layer of scum on it from where people with hand creams and lotions had been dipping there hands into it.  There was a slight ring of crud around the basin at water level.  It did not look healthy at all.   This is what I thought of as soon as I saw the title of this thread.

I'm guessing they didn't change it a lot.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2013, 09:45:02 pm »
Quote from: SpaceProg on September 22, 2013, 04:35:44 pm
The priest drank holy water?  Kid-handed holy water?

*Pukes*
Yup. And my family has a ton of kids...
Quote from: mellenORL on September 22, 2013, 01:48:11 pm
Maybe he dosed it with vodka first? Funerals can be stressful to conduct sometimes.
I hope so. xD
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2013, 11:48:41 pm »
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Quote from: Star Cluster on September 18, 2013, 05:55:48 pm
A few years ago, my wife and I were vacationing in Rome and we went to the Vatican just to go there and see it.  When we went into Saint Peters Cathedral, we noticed people going over to a basin mounted about 5-1/2 feet up on the wall, reaching up and dipping their hand into, and crossing themselves.  Some were even putting it on their baby's foreheads.  My wife went over so I could take a photo of her beside it and after I took it, she looked into the basin and a look of horror came over her face.  So I went over a looked in and it was filthy.  There was a visible layer of scum on it from where people with hand creams and lotions had been dipping there hands into it.  There was a slight ring of crud around the basin at water level.  It did not look healthy at all.   This is what I thought of as soon as I saw the title of this thread.

I'm guessing they didn't change it a lot.

I'm guessing you're right.   But as many people that dip their dirty hands in it on a daily basis, it probably doesn't take too long to get that dirty, either.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2013, 01:44:16 am »
You'd think holy water ought to be clean, seeing how no religion that uses the concept would want their system to be associated with touching filthy substances.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2013, 02:22:09 am »
Quote from: worlder on October 04, 2013, 01:44:16 am
You'd think holy water ought to be clean, seeing how no religion that uses the concept would want their system to be associated with touching filthy substances.

Laziness trumps cleanliness apparently.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2013, 08:47:38 am »
I've heard of a similar issue with the Ganges River. Despite all the illnesses that people contract for bathing in it, many strict Hindus insist that the river remains pure. I think I can safely say it's affected more people than dirty "holy" water, considering India's vastly greater population and near-constant access.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2013, 09:50:36 am »
The difference is that problem is hard to fix since it has to be the Ganges the holy water at least in Europe and NA can be fixed by just changing the water daily.
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Re: Holy Water Harmful to Health?
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2013, 11:15:32 am »
Maybe Pope Francis will issue a Papal Bull on the use of Blessed Chlorine? That would be a sincere reform, at least.
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