I’m sure there are or should be laws against people just taking a plane and dumping liquids of unknown or unapproved origin on random strangers and their property. It seems like such a thing could definitely be used for ill.
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Holy crap. Bravo!
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There sure are if you’re, say, a Japanese doomsday cult and want to spray people with, say, sarin. But come on, it’s the Catholic church, and a little holy water can’t do any harm, can it? Unless of course you’re a vampire, but as long as they’re doing their spraying by day those aren’t going to be out and about, so no problem there.
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Wow i have some kind of hang up
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Holy chemtrails Batman!
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I have terrible news for you about cloud seeding.
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Can’t we mix in a little homeopathy and bless a glass of water then pour it in the local water supply?
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Do you want demons? Because that’s how you get demons.
You’ll breed holy water resistant demons that way…
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Some good anagrams of that name.
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I came here to see the following image and I was sorely disappointed. (One for the files, @beschizza?).
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As a “not a Christian or Catholic” would this exposure to holy water without my consent a violation of my Constitutional Rights? I mean, not having the option to not participate in someone else’s religious ritual seems pretty much that.
You know, something that the Church could be sued over, with any money gained to be donated to a charity that helps out abused children?
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Well, if you’re not Christian or Catholic, then you don’t believe the water is holy, so it’s just water. You can’t claim you’re exposed to something you don’t believe exists.
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Something I learned as a child when I, having been accidentally separated from my grandparents in church on some holiday or something, decided to queue up for communion. I didn’t have a religious upbringing (going to church with grandma was her attempts to steer me in the “right” direction, but it didn’t take, though I always enjoyed the drama and ceremony) so I had no idea what its relevance was, I just thought it was something I was supposed to do. So I waited my turn, got the wafer, was confused at how I was supposed to eat it and why didn’t it taste good, mass went on.
Later my grandma explained that I absolutely shouldn’t have done that, and now she would have to pray hard for forgiveness. I spent the next week in fear. Many many years later I found myelf in hospital, in a ward with many old/very sick patients, so priests of various denominations were regularly making rounds. I often chatted with them, and when I told this story to the Catholic priest he was like "well, I guess God wouldn’t be angry at a child? I suppose you could properly confess to me now but as you’re not a believer I don’t think it would matter, so. ¯\ (ツ)/¯ "
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I’m not a believer, but I do like the “bells and smells” of a high church service.
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Now we know why the bees are dying.
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Or in homeopathic terms, the cure for everything.
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You could say the same about prayers in school: they’re just words, so who cares?
I still doubt there’s a constitutional issue at play here, though, as the divine dunking seems to have been organised entirely by a church, rather than by a local government.
But possibly assault? Don’t know, IANAL.
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The thing is, after 2000 years, the Catholic Church has loads of magic religious ceremonies for large scale blessings of all kinds, with special prayers invoking the appropriate saints and whatnot.
This isn’t it.
This is the kind of slapdash improv that you’d resort to if it really were the end times and literal demons were sprouting from the earth. This sort of nonsense should get you a visit from the Monks in Black to tell you that the Bishop wants a word with you, now.
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