Atheists use 'unholy' water to unbless Florida highway

[CalMeacham]

http://now.msn.com/now/0318-atheists-unbless-highway.aspx

​A group of Floridian “free thinkers” converged on a strip of U.S. Route 98 Saturday with mops and a giant vat of “unholy water” to cleanse the thoroughfare of the blessing it received from a Christian group a year ago. The atheist group, “Humanists of Florida” says it scrubbed the road “of the oils of intolerance,” claiming that the original roadside annointment by Christian group Polk Under Prayer was an insult to non-Christians and that the highway should be “about welcoming everybody.”

As an ex-altar boy I know howe to make Holy Water. How do you make “Unholy Water”?

[typoink]

You don’t want to know.

[Musicat]

If a priest blesses water (that’s how you make it holy, right?), can a blessing be undone? What if you mix holy water with equal parts of non-blessed water? Does it become 50% holy? Does holy water ever lose its holy-ness? Is it still holy if you drink it? Piss it?

So many questions!

[Mr.Accident]

Oh good grief. People on both sides of the road need to get over themselves and stop with this ridiculous nonsense. Next time these idjits decide they need a group project, I hope they spend time doing something worthwhile, like helping feed the hungry, or building homes with habitat for humanity, or for that matter watching paint dry. All of it will help more than this nonsense did.

[Czarcasm]

@Mr.Accident

Oh good grief. People on both sides of the road need to get over themselves and stop with this ridiculous nonsense. Next time these idjits decide they need a group project, I hope they spend time doing something worthwhile, like helping feed the hungry, or building homes with habitat for humanity, or for that matter watching paint dry. All of it will help more than this nonsense did.

By “these idjits”, may I assume you are referring to both sides?

[Sunspace]

I think they’re taking the wrong approach to this. What they really need to do is conduct a controlled experiment. Select segments of comparable road, and bless each one using a different religion. Keep one section unblessed as a control. A year later, compare accident rates and health statistics among users of all road segments.

[Trepa_Mayfield]

Ugh, these are the worst kind of atheists. You’re not clever, and you’re not helping us. Stop!

[VinylTurnip]

@Mr.Accident

Oh good grief. People on both sides of the road need to get over themselves and stop with this ridiculous nonsense. Next time these idjits decide they need a group project, I hope they spend time doing something worthwhile, like helping feed the hungry, or building homes with habitat for humanity, or for that matter watching paint dry. All of it will help more than this nonsense did.

Yeah, like we’re really gonna take road tips from Mr. Accident.

[lawbuff]

@CalMeacham

As an ex-altar boy I know howe to make Holy Water. How do you make “Unholy Water”?

It is simply “symbolic” in nature, phraseology if you will, you can’t undo a blessing.

They had to call it something, or maybe they had Satan put a spell on it?

[Rachellelogram]

haha, I think it’s funny.

[Revtim]

Great, now the vampires have another road they can use. Dicks.

[VunderBob]

@CalMeacham

As an ex-altar boy I know how to make Holy Water.

Boil the Hell out of it?

[PandaBear77]

For atheists they seem to have a lot of faith that:

1. it’s even possible to bless a highway (or anything else)

2. that the Christians who blessed the highway had any lasting effect on the road

and

3. they’re able to undo a blessing.
   Most atheists that I know would simply roll their eyes and go on with their lives.

[Sudden_Kestrel]

Doesn’t their using “unholy” water imply that “holy” water actually exists, thereby negating the atheist angle?

Real atheists know that water is just water.

[Czarcasm]

@PandaBear77

For atheists they seem to have a lot of faith that:

1. it’s even possible to bless a highway (or anything else)

2. that the Christians who blessed the highway had any lasting effect on the road

and

3. they’re able to undo a blessing.
   Most atheists that I know would simply roll their eyes and go on with their lives.

Most atheists I know have a sense of humor and understand the use of mockery when it comes to getting people interested in a cause.

[Lukeinva]

For my travels I’d much rather drive on a blessed road than an unholy road. Every day and twice on Sunday.

[lawbuff]

@Sudden_Kestrel

Doesn’t their using “unholy” water imply that “holy” water actually exists, thereby negating the atheist angle?

Real atheists know that water is just water.

In law there is a doctrine called Negative Pregnant. It has nothing to do with giving birth, but simply an analogy.

[Hypno-Toad]

If they really wanted to show those christians a thing or two, they’d have repaved that road with some good intentions.

[FairyChatMom]

Hypno-Toad, you truly made me laugh out loud! Thank you!

[Invisible_Chimp]

I don’t think the Christians blessing the road is an insult to non-Christians. As an atheist, I’m not insulted by harmless gestures done with good intent. This group sounds like the kind of humorless assholes who get pissed off if someone says, “Bless You,” after they sneeze. God forbid if someone says they’ll pray for them if they’re going through a rough patch which is the same thing as sending good vibes or keeping someone in their thoughts. (It’s different if someone prays for my soul or that I find Christ; that is insulting.)