Catholic church dumped holy water from airplane onto the town below

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Former neighbor’s favorite joke: How do you make Holy Water? You fill a container with tap water then bless the Hell™ out if it.

Happy Holidays Boingers!

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This actually really skeeves me out.

People get absolutely frothy about Mormons baptizing dead jews. And jews putting up eruvs to cordon off their neighborhoods. I’m sure if some Muslim guy built a Minaret in some random small town USA without consulting anyone and broadcasted out the top of it 5 times a day, there’d be a lynching.

The Christian hegemony enjoys entirely too much respect and entitlement by default.

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“This is the Barzarest thing I’ve ever done,” said the Reverend…

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Here? Or down in Africa?

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The Catholic Church has always been technology-positive!

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I’d certainly agree RE: excessive respect and entitlement by default; buy I’m of two minds about how skeeved out to get.

As a symbolic imposition it’s a fairly audacious dick move; but (unless they indeed failed to prevent cross-contamination with something nasty) it’s also a purely symbolic imposition. Any actual moisture effects should be pretty trivial and the holiness is imaginary.

In light of that I’m not sure whether it is more suitable to judge it in the spirit in which it was imposed(and be notably displeased); or in light of its actual effects(and yawn at the futile ceremony).

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Reverend? That is a Protestant title, or reserved for Catholic Nuns.

Story checks out, there is a St. Anna Catholic Church @ Cow Island and a Father presides there.

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All the actual water bombers are in Australia at the moment.

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Right! Like the CC would risk being blamed for any resulting flood and damage thereby. You think they’re idiots?! :crazy_face:

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As @CLamb notes this isn’t one of the Seven Official Sacraments recognized by the Catholic Church. Those are:

  • Baptism (congrats baby, you’re a probationary Christian)
  • Confirmation (you’re a full member of the club!)
  • Eucharist (ceremonial consumption of Christ’s flesh and blood)
  • Penance (time to tell God you’re sorry)
  • Matrimony (it’s finally possible to have some form of sex with without sinning!)
  • Holy Orders (God wants YOU for the Priesthood!)
  • Anointing of the Sick (good luck getting better or at least getting into heaven)

I’m pretty sure there’s a blasphemous George Carlin routine in there somewhere.

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Long enough for you to file battery charges against the religious a-hole dumping crap from the sky.

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Chemtrails?

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Nope. Just One form of sex.

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Glad to see alligators finally getting some love. Excluding them from “The Blessing of the Animals” always seemed mean to me.

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For act 2, let’s take an F-16 fighter jet and replace the machine gun bullets with communion wafers. Then the jet can make strafing runs and fill those parishioners full of holy holes!

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Catholic church dumped holy water from airplane onto the town below

Or, in layman’s terms, Tap Water.

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“Hello police? I want to file charges against God, for raining on me! What? Hello? Hello?”

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I so much wanted this to be The Houses of Parliament or White House… Bah-Humbug!

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Nah, it fits. Mary rather memorably did not give consent.

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Or they could have, you know, used those resources in the actual spirit of the season and provided food or shelter for the poor in their communities.

But that’s just not what some religious communities do any more…

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