Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/24/catholic-church-dumped-holy-wa.html
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Wonder if they’re annoyed they didn’t use this as a plot line in Supernatural.
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Kids these days.
What are ya’ gonna’ do?
But I’ll say, my favorite missionary is a lazy-assed missionary.
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This is basically a war crime against the local vampire community.
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Test samples showed that the water contained extremely high levels of bullshit.
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What a surprise, a catholic completely discarding the idea of consent.
It never is an articulated idea in the Bible after all, so how important could such a thing be to God and Jesus and Mary and whoever else they pray to.
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IT BURNS!!! AGGHHHHHHH!!
NB: the preceding is a complete sentence.
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Wouldn’t it be much simpler to just bless the rains?
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I hear that only works down in Africa.
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Uhm, so, they used tanks and sprayers normally used for fertilizer, herbacides and/or pesticides to spray contaminated water over the whole community, without concent or permission of any kind. Oh, red States…
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So, assuming you’re out in the street when this holified H2O strafes you, just how long does the purification or baptism or whatever last? asking for a friend.
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I recall there’s a bit in Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men” wherein he advocates solving the troubles in Ireland by wandering through the Protestant neighborhoods with a suitably blessed hose. Satire, of course.
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Wait, it gets better:
The idea came from L’Eryn Detraz, a Cow Island native who is a missionary stationed in Ohio.
You gotta be DEDICATED to handle a rough assignment like that.
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1.21 Salvation
John uses a rosary to bless water in a tank, and later uses the water to fend off Meg and Tom.
Nota plane - but an entire water tank spraying out over a walkway to allow his escape.
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Surely no one would be so stupid as to… [looks at who’s involved]… uh, I hope it wasn’t anything too toxic they contaminated the area with.
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Sprinkle a can of this over the place:
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I thought non Catholics weren’t allowed to receive sacraments.
Facilitating this was a sin on the Padres part.
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Blessing with Holy Water is not a sacrament.
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Okeydokey. I just accidentally ran across this. It sorta pulls together this thread and an earlier one about Willie’s guitar. Sorta, kinda. At any rate, get ready for (I’m not kidding) Willie Nelson and Stephen Colbert singing the timeless Christmas classic:
Just trust me on this one.
