Is it OK to fart while praying?
Also, what happens when you fart in Hell? If everyone in Hell farted at the same time would Hell blow up? I’m sure there would be enough methane to raise hell in Hell. Maybe blow it all to Hell? Then we’d be back where we started! Hell of a question though.
(Back to my Budweiser now…)
Everyone farting at once pretty much sounds like my idea of Hell.
Fair enough but according the “He who smelt it, dealt it” rule, the first damned soul that commented would get the blame for the entire sulfurous flaming cloud. I’m evil enough to enjoy blaming my farts on other people so I assume I’ll get the chance to test this in Hell someday.
I wonder if this is what caused Iceland to blow up? Just wondering.
I’m sure they’d feel it in Heaven as well.
They never said anything about it in Catholic Scholl. And I never heard anything from my Jewish, Protestant, or Mormon friends. Of course, it’s not the sort of thing that generally comes up in conversation.
Oddly, I do know that it’s forbidden under Muslim practice. have a fascinating book on everyday Muslim behavior, and it states clearly that one is ritually unclean under a number of circumstances, including after “flatus ex ano”, which is the classiest designation for fart I’ve ever come across. After any of these circumstances, including the aforementioned flatus ex ano, one must ritually cleanse oneself before proveeding with prayer. This isn’t a big deal, but it is noteworthy in being the only such religious stricture about it I know of.
If **Jake **farts in the woods and no one is around to hear it does he make a sound?
What if he’s caught in flagrante flatus?
My dad always said the way to deal with farting in the theater was to turn around and stare at the person behind you with an outraged expression. I suppose this would generalize to Hell – or at least to that portion reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater.
My olefactory memory of a Catholic childhood is the mixture of frankinsence and flatus. For all that wonderfull stained glass, I’d just as soon they’d put hinges on the windows.