RE: This holy water thing is full of shit!
March 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2015 at 2:01 pm by abaris.)
(September 14, 2013 at 3:38 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Literally, apparently.
Quote:Scientists have discovered that 86 per cent of water samples from holy sources contain faecal matter.
Austrian researchers also found that church fonts contain high levels of bacteria and that none of the holy springs they studied could be considered safe for drinking from.
Conclusion? Baptisms are really gross.
Funny how the infinitely compassionate lord won't make the water they soak babies in clean and safe...
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.