# Atheists use 'unholy' water to unbless Florida highway **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234 "2012-03-19T16:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/41 "2012-03-19T21:18:34Z")
Don’t these people have something better to do? This goes along with the endless lawsits against cities and towns that dae to put up Christmas trees. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/42 "2012-03-19T21:29:49Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I think I’ll sit with **PandaBear77** in the roll-eye section. Bless you. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/43 "2012-03-19T21:41:36Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Don’t these people have something better to do? I know what you mean-blessing a stretch of road seems like a silly way to bring attention to your religion, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/44 "2012-03-19T21:48:59Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I know what you mean-blessing a stretch of road seems like a silly way to bring attention to your religion, doesn’t it? Unblessing it is just as stupid if not stupider. If you want to fight their harmless stupidity with more stupidity, that’s your right, but I’m mostly a live and let live kinda guy when it comes to religion. I pick and choose my battles and only get mad when start oppressing women, spreading their intelligent design bullshit, etc. Unblessing roads is at the bottom of my to-do list. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/45 "2012-03-19T21:55:29Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Unblessing it is just as stupid if not stupider. If you want to fight their harmless stupidity with more stupidity, that’s your right, but I’m mostly a live and let live kinda guy when it comes to religion. I pick and choose my battles and only get mad when start oppressing women, spreading their intelligent design bullshit, etc. Unblessing roads is at the bottom of my to-do list. Mocking religious stupidity is a step in the right direction if it shows the public that they are allowed to call out and laugh at silliness even if it is dressed up in the garb of the Righteous. ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/46 "2012-03-19T21:59:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > 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. Didn’t work on me. Simply told me atheists are assholes who enjoy nastily mocking others, and tempted me to return to religion. The clue: if you’re mocking someone, you’re being an asshole. This isn’t reasoned debate (the very thing they insist the religious folk avoid), it’s bullying. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/47 "2012-03-19T21:59:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Mocking religious stupidity is a step in the right direction if it shows the public that they are allowed to call out and laugh at silliness even if it is dressed up in the garb of the Righteous. That is intolerant. The kind of thing atheists complain about all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/48 "2012-03-19T22:01:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Maybe it’s to get people to see these public religious displays as the farces they really are. Unless I read something wrong, it wasn’t much of a public display by the Christians. That is, I was under the impression that when the road was paved some Christians did their, “Please O Lord, in your blessed favoring of the tarmac with holy yellow line-age, and yay, though I walk through the valley of the Cannanites …” or whatever the fuck they chant. And that was it. I don’t know … to come around after the fact and say, as an atheist, “nuh-uh,” seems a bit ridiculous to me What the hell’s the point? Now if there are billboards all over the place stating, “This route has been sanctified by the Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Praise be to Jesus,” then, sure … unbless for a cause. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/49 "2012-03-19T22:23:43Z")
Why are they blessing a road? It’s not like another road is going to slam into it, causing grievous harm. I see no concrete benefit to this. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/50 "2012-03-19T22:26:45Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I see no concrete benefit to this. The road to Hell is paved with… oh nevermind 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/51 "2012-03-19T22:32:42Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Boil the Hell out of it? So then to make it unholy again I presume you would boil the Christ out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/52 "2012-03-19T22:40:54Z")
> **[Atheists Un-Anoint Roadway… But Why?](https://thatweirdatheistgirl.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/atheists-un-anoint-roadway-but-why/)** > > So maybe you’ve heard about this already. A few atheists decided to un-anoint a road in Polk County, Florida. But why did they do this? Are they just silly people with too much time on their … Not sure I agree with them entirely, but when people are getting arrested over what looks like fairly trumped up issues, it does raise freedom of speech issues and the like. And I kind of see the ‘non-Christians stay out’ aspect, but it feels a bit stretchy to me without more supporting evidence. Otara ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/53 "2012-03-19T22:55:53Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, like we’re really gonna take road tips from **Mr. Accident**. Why not? He’s obviously the best qualified. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/54 "2012-03-19T22:58:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [http://now.msn.com/now/0318-atheists-unbless-highway.aspx](http://now.msn.com/now/0318-atheists-unbless-highway.aspx) > > As an ex-altar boy I know howe to make Holy Water. How do you make “Unholy Water”? You piss in it. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/55 "2012-03-19T23:30:50Z")
I have an idea for their next stunt. They should get some buckets of “unholy water” (probably best to just use water, and not “bless” it with piss) and sprinkle it on people to “unbaptize” them. After all, neither ritual does anything besides get people wet, right? On second thought, put me in the “not helping” camp. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/56 "2012-03-19T23:44:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [http://now.msn.com/now/0318-atheists-unbless-highway.aspx](http://now.msn.com/now/0318-atheists-unbless-highway.aspx) > > As an ex-altar boy I know howe to make Holy Water. How do you make “Unholy Water”? Sit in it \* - This is based on: “I’m not gargling after she sticks her ass it in” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/57 "2012-03-20T00:21:18Z")
I hope they put up signs that said “Slick road”, at least. It could be worse. It could be like those dicks who like to go to libraries and reshelve the Bible in the fiction section. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/58 "2012-03-20T00:24:56Z")
The point is to piss people off. This makes them trolls. We get mad at PETA when they troll. Why is it when you support the cause that it suddenly becomes okay and funny? They are trolls, and, as such, have just proven the Christians right that atheists are horrible people. Congratulations: you just confirmed their prejudices. I just don’t understand the mindset of people who turn atheism into a religion. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/59 "2012-03-20T03:11:32Z")
Some people need to get a life. As far as I am concerned you can bless me, unbless me, and do the hokey pokey and turn yourself about. It doesn’t matter to me either way. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234/60 "2012-03-20T03:20:12Z")
Well, for my money you can’t have too much of this sort of thing. I giggle just thinking of the guy carrying the mop. All I ever unbless is the toilet… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-use-unholy-water-to-unbless-florida-highway/616234.md?page=4)