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There’s ample evidence “going to church” is one way, and that’s not much different than the others.
by dahdum 7y ago
There’s ample evidence “going to church” is one way, and that’s not much different than the others.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoPerhaps if your church likes to pack in people so closely that they're touching and thinks that it's your duty to God to repeatedly drag yourself to church no matter how sick you are. (The likely index patient apparently attended services 4 times after symptoms started.)
- bzzzt 7y agoMaybe participation in the holy communion by drinking from a cup of wine shared with the entire congregation isn't the best idea right now.
- dependenttypes 7y agoI presume that the alcohol from the wine would not be enough to kill the virus, right?
- paublyrne 7y agoIt's unlikely, wine's alcohol content is only around 13%, you would need about 4 times that to kill the average virus. It would also be on the lip of the cup rather than in the wine.
- Izkata 7y agoAs a kid in the 90s, my church had a separate line for kids so we could participate too, and we got grape juice.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoCommunion wine is typically only 12%-18% alcohol by volume, so probably not.
- mlang23 7y agoIN a part of Austria, they apparently banned holy water now.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoAfaik none of the churches where it has spread were the sort that has that kind of a practice — more pentecostal or cults. (Cults who knows, they could do that. But pentecostals ime don't much like wine and I've never participated a recreation of the last supper when I've been to a pentecostal church.)