<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Does anyone in this group find the religious peoples' actions surprising?  bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 6:49 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:13 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background:rgb(249,249,249)">Greek Orthodox churches across the country will allow congregations of hundreds of people to sip wine from the same spoon during mass because "the holy cup cannot carry disease," the Archdiocese said.</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-14/church-religious-groups-say-coronavirus-cannot-infect-them/12055476" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-14/church-religious-groups-say-coronavirus-cannot-infect-them/12055476</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;background:rgb(249,249,249)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">"But once we decide to go to church, we believe there is absolutely no possibility of contracting disease from the holy cup," he said.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0in;background:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">"We believe that no disease or illness can exist in holy communion, which we believe is the body and blood of Christ," Reverend Scoutas said.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div></blockquote><div>### Interesting, there is something similar going on in Iran, where a few faithful defiantly licked the gate of a shrine in Qom a couple of weeks ago.</div><div><br></div><div>The story continues with satellite images showing mass graves being dug in that city.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div>
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