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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 2:10 pm
(March 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm)abaris Wrote: How on earth did you stumble across this now? This made headlines in Austria some decades ago. Must have been somewhere in the 90ies or early 2000. I remember having a good chuckle when it was spread across our dailies.
Well, I didn't stumble across it now, I stumbled across it two years ago.  And I stumbled across it because there was some reportage about it at the time I posted this; the link in my OP is from 2013, so maybe it's a newer study?
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 2:14 pm
Apparently someone didn't read the rules regarding necroposting.
C'mon... is it really THAT hard to do?
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 2:16 pm
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I actually think that among all things Holy Water is something that may cause real and immediate harm to the believers themselves. There are beliefs that placing relics, icons, crosses etc. near the water or into it makes it "Holy". Sometimes people bring their water with them to a church or buy some nearby, then a priest makes the water "Holy" and they bring it home. The water may stay for several days or even weeks out of the fridge or out of a dark place in unsterile or even badly-washed bottles. Knowing how many uneducated and superstitious people are out there and how many unscrupulous people wish to make money of off them it's not hard to imagine a situation when Holy Water gets literary "full of shit" as in gets infected with fecal matter or some bacteria or generally turns out to be un-consumable and causes poisoning and desease. Roughly the same goes for kissing relics. No-one in their mind is going to kiss a handrail in an underground train or on a bus but some are willing to kiss relics that may have been kissed by literaly thousands of people on the same day. After all there are known accounts from the past when kissing icons and relics caused and worsened spreading of plague.
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 2:16 pm
(March 20, 2015 at 2:10 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Well, I didn't stumble across it now, I stumbled across it two years ago. And I stumbled across it because there was some reportage about it at the time I posted this; the link in my OP is from 2013, so maybe it's a newer study?
I looked it up. It's actually not that long ago. Only half a decade. It made headlines in the spring of 2010 with Austrian and German papers.
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 2:16 pm
Damn cat... if that posted multiple times I apologize. Apparently having a cat on a laptop isn't a good idea. Tried to tell the cat, but he won't listen.
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 4:01 pm
(March 20, 2015 at 2:16 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: Damn cat... if that posted multiple times I apologize. Apparently having a cat on a laptop isn't a good idea. Tried to tell the cat, but he won't listen.
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 4:32 pm
(March 20, 2015 at 2:14 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: Apparently someone didn't read the rules regarding necroposting.
C'mon... is it really THAT hard to do?
Holy shit, a newb who read the rules?!?!
This has never happened before!
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 4:36 pm
I should definitely check the date of postings and not automatically assume they are new ones, in case some grave robber unearths another thread zombie.
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 4:36 pm
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(March 20, 2015 at 4:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Holy shit, a newb who read the rules?!?!
This has never happened before!
Hey, I read the rules before I signed up 
I wanted to make sure what I was getting into. 
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RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 4:39 pm
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