Do you have a cite for an Israeli study showing how nude bathing can defile a lake?
He wore thongs. Two of 'em.
Maybe he was insufficiently [del]circumcised[/del] circumspect.
Skinny dipping isn’t a problem. Taking gifts in the form of the trip is a big problem.
Skinny dipping isn’t a problem. Taking gifts in the form of the trip is a big problem.
Desalinated? It’s freshwater. It’s called a “sea” because it’s big, not because it’s salty.
It’s also “big” purely on a local scale. If you dropped it in the middle of Upstate New York, they probably wouldn’t even bother to give it a name.
(Also, it’s an ancient Hebrew name, and ancient Hebrew had no word for “lake”).
Well yeah, the Sea of Azov and the Adriatic are smaller than the Bay of St Lawrence… and at least those two are salty.
The Immaculate Conception was not done with a really clean penis.
Is it really considered 'somehow holy as some people are stating here?
No more than any other part of the country. It’s Christians who make a big deal about it. It’s a popular site and oft praised in prose and song, but not for religious reasons.
And it’s not like we consider it any holier than the rest of the “holy land”. Maybe there’s some christian church somewhere which has an injunction against farting while in Israel, but I’m reasonably sure that most don’t worry about that kind of detail. Any church so nitpicky, I expect they’d also have injunctions against being naked under your clothes.
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water…
Put your hand in the …
…wait, that’s not your hand! Eurgh!
Thanks. The original CNN article pinged both my “huh?” meter and my who-gives-a-shit-dar… guess it’s no surprise that the “skinny dipping” angle became the lead story.
Galilee is where the Republican god Christ did the water walking thing, thereby bringing any sacrilege to the water there under the US internal jurisdiction of the FBI. My cite is the FBI investigation.
(Well, if the truth be known, the Turnip has it in one.)
Actually the IC *was *done with a (circumcised) penis, St. Joachim’s. And yes, that was a bit of Catholic Doctrine pendantry 
Everyone knows that even one pound of Congressman will poison an entire sea!
Well, see, I think this is the problem with this religion - that somehow, naked bodies are sinful. Why would they be?
Because nekkid leads to fun, and fun is sinful. Don’t tell me that you think fun isn’t sinful!
Wiki, natch.
But they aren’t, not per se. At least in the RCC, I can’t answer for other denominations; going naked used to be a common way of doing penance or as a discipline exercise.