Do they ever clean out the inside of decorative baptismal fonts from which they scoop and pour water? All those priestly hand bacteria and cradle-cap crap and Protestant sneezes.
Is it OK to be pissed off in church when the person behind you is sniffling and sneezing and coughing their brains out? Does it make the baby Jesus cry when you think angrily, "Couldn't they have praised the Lord from HOME today?" Does He command you, "But I say, do not rise up against an evildoer! If someone sneezes upon your right cheek, turn and offer the other cheek also"?
Do you ever think about how many germs are passed betwixt people when sharing the Peace of the Lord following the sermon?
Influenza be with you.
"--And also with you."
And on the eighth day God created hand sani.
Thanks be to God.
i've thought about the ickiness of baptism water and also about communion. there's definitely potential for some germage.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the Episcopal Church and I remember when they started the dipping instead of drinking from the common cup. I think two doctors threw a fit and they made the switch to offering both. My in-laws are Catholic and she was a Catholic school teacher. She has an immune disorder of the kidneys and would never hold hands with the kids during whatever part of the service everyone holds hands. She said it made the priest really mad but she was not holding hands with one of those little germ factories.
ReplyDeleteThese days I am more concerned for our family welfare that we will catch afire upon entering Jebus's house, not so much the germs. We are not, ahem, practicing anymore. I will say that in the Epsicopal church the baptismal font was always empty unless their was a baptism. The holy water at Catholic churches is always lippin' full. Surely the good lord de-germifies it?
Yesterday I did a whole chicken with goat cheese stuffed under the skin. I washed my hands so many times while fixing it--you would have been so proud. I was all, so this must be how Jo's life feels :) Raw chix is enough to make me want to be vegan. However, the product was vury tasteeeeee.
That sounds AWESOME. The goat-cheese chicken...not the Catching Afire thing.
DeleteI totally agree with the wanting-to-go-vegan thing. Not for any other reason than handling raw chicken is my worst nightmare.
DeleteAnd yaaaay for you, for washing so well! :)
I can only speak of my own lil' church but I remember it smelling all chlorine-y.
ReplyDeleteThe common cup thing freaks me out. Ick.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. They give it a cursory swipe with a white cloth and it's like, "Really? There could still totally be a herpe on that."
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