there’s a section for catholic titles,
The Reverend John Smith or The Reverend Fr Rose
Reverend Father is “formal”, Father alone is “social”
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If they really want to have any kind of effect they should have rained this over the White House
I’m pretty sure that’s where the evil is concentrated
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A study conducted in Austria in 2013 concluded that 86% of the little holy-water fonts near the entrances of Roman Catholic churches contained bacteria otherwise found in fecal matter, such as E. coli. Not something you want to dip your hand into.
Compared to this, getting doused from above with holy water that presumably hasn’t previously spent time in a church-entrance font but was blessed directly in its canister seems fairly harmless, but then of course there are the pesticides or whatever was left in the tank of the aircraft before it took on the holy H2O, and the issue that in the church you get to decide whether you want to make use of the holy water in the yucky basin, but if they just drop it on you unannounced from above you can’t (not that it seems to bother the people who came up with the idea).
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I say we take off and baptize the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Iirc in the move Constantine they used the firesupression sprinklersystem of a building to kill a hundret demons.
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Well it’s about time someone found a use for their Applicable Theology degree
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If they did, they probably did that thing where all the sprinklers go off at once, which isn’t how they work. Movie tropes… :-/
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All hospitals are equipped with deluge systems in order to properly soak all patients at the first sign of alarm.
Edit: /s
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As a Bobtised Reverend of the Church of the Subgenius, I’ll object to that!
Meh. As magic goes, this is so sterile. Where’s the joy of jumping through bonfires, or whatever the Catholics do for a general area blessing of prosperity? Where’s the picnic with potato salad?
This is mechanistic karma pest spraying.
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insert IT clown
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Do you have a citation that these are used in “all hospitals”? Deluge systems seem pretty rare, but I’m not an expert in fire systems, so I don’t know.
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Vampires? Nope, we just sprayed for them the other day.
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Bad joke, a deluge system would flood as much water (or foam) as the pump could pump. Not what you want in most buildings. Made an edit to the original post.
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A death sentence from the sounds of if it; or is that an undeath sentences?
Technically, Penance comes before Eucharist.
You must be free of sin and fully in God’s Holy Grace before consuming the body and blood of Christ. You have a 1st Confession before you have a 1st Communion.
All those years of Catholic school were good for something, after all, maybe? To be able to be a pedant on boingboing?
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So many things to remember!
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