Catholic bishop plans to dump holy water from plane to exorcise city's demons

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/21/catholic-bishop-plans-to-dump.html

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[GulliverFoyle]

[srin]

This reminds me of a friend’s joke:

Why are there no vampires in Africa?

They bless the rains down there.

[jandrese]

So I guess holy water doesn’t require an effective dose? Is it homeopathic? Couldn’t the bishop just put a drop in the city’s water supply instead?

[fuzzyfungus]

Is spiritual warfare subject to the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention?

Because normally when an elaborately costumed figure in a command role plans to disseminate an exotic agent over a major population center to “see if so many bad things end” you hope that the OPCW is on it…

[GiantRobotPilot]

Sounds like something out of one of the Blade movies.

[anon72705028]

Seems like less gas to just go around blessing the city’s water mains.

[stephen_schenck]

Wouldn’t it be easier to just bless the water vapor already in the air?

[blaeceorcanstan]

Maybe we could try dumping holy water other places too. Parliament, the White House, etc.

[marcus_mcmullan]

My name is Monsignor Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya. You keeled my father, prepair to die.

[angusm]

And here’s the bishop on his way to New York.

[Cunk]

I wonder if they’re allowed to just bless all hydrogen and oxygen atoms on the planet no matter where they are. That way any water they currently form or will ever form will be automatically blessed.

Or do blessings wear out? Is there a way to measure blessed level of a water sample?

[hecep]

@stephen_schenck

Wouldn’t it be easier to just bless the water vapor already in the air?

Given the bishop’s plan, I wonder if he’s even aware of anything as ‘earthly’ as atmospheric water vapor. Science? Too secular.

[fuzzyfungus]

The details get nasty quickly, and unfortunately a lot of the parameters have to be empirically derived which always feels a little dodgy; but I think you can use Durkheim’s Law to model the propagation and decay of sacridity through a variety of homgeneous and heterogenous media as well as interfaces between them.

[generic_name]

So praying didn’t work?

Surprising.

[Edgar_Carpenter]

Sprinkling holy water cured the Black Death, and polio, and ebola, didn’t it?

Oh.

[LvData]

IF IF IF this was the USA could a satanist sue or have him stopped before “poisoning” the water?

[RickMycroft]

Thwarted by vinegar!

[MadLibrarian]

I’d personally vote for having the priest simply bless the whole of the reservoir.

[teknocholer]

I say we take off and bless the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.