Religious opposition to bottled water growing

WaterTech Online ^ | 12/18/2006

[Nihil Obstat]

National Coalition of American Nuns isn't Catholic anymore, I don't know why they are allowed to use that name. It's like "Catholics for Free Choice".

[the OlLine Rebel]

Are you saying it's an "oxymoron"?

[andy58-in-nh]

Have you been watching Penn & Teller?

No, I haven't. What did I miss?

[napscoordinator]

I really wish the wacko groups would be banned from distorting conservative, religious, catholic, jewish, etc. words because they really do a disservice. Of course that First Amendment gets the way of this. lol.

[the OlLine Rebel]

What you wrote sounds almost exactly like what they had in their very 1st episode of "Bull!#$@#$"!

[Nihil Obstat]

something like that, but I thought Oxymoron was a skin cream for teens that don't have acne

[Alex Murphy]

Presumably, before all that non-unity stuff occurred at the Tower of Babel, everyone spoke Latin. Even today, if you wake someone up at three a.m., they will actually talk in Latin! People speaking different languages is a direct result of a secret U.N. conspiracy, and it is perpetrated via the fluoridation of our drinking water, polluting our precious bodily fluids and causing us to speak oddly.

That is the mystical secret behind Catholics and "Holy Water". Get repeated exposure to it (baptism, etc), and voila! The fluoridation gets purged from your system, and you begin understanding Latin again. That, my friend, is the real reason why Perrier and other bottled waters became so popular years ago. Have you ever looked at a distribution chart for the bottled water industry? The government is involved in the process, and that means the Jesuits. Obviously, bottled water still contains some type of particulate that interrupts the cleansing process, keeping the monopoly on truly pure water within the Vatican itself.

United Church of Canada considers boycotting bottled watter

[SerpentDove]

I will assume your response has some humor or wit in it.

Please forgive me if it eludes me.

[Nihil Obstat]

Vatican responds to charge of unpaid water bill

Jun. 19, 2006 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has rejected a charge that the Holy See has been delinquent in paying water and sewer bills.

The Italian dailiy La Repubblica had reported early in June that the Vatican owe €20 million (about $25 million) to Acea, the Italian utility that became a private corporation in 1999.

Under the terms of the Lateran Accords, signed in 1929 to govern relations between the Vatican city-state and Italy, the Holy See was granted access to the water and sewer lines of Rome. When these services were privatized in 1999, the Vatican was expected to pay usage fees.

In a June 19 statement responding to the charge aired by La Repubblica, the Vatican said that the question of water usage had been "definitively resolved" by the Lateran Treaty. That agreement was confirmed, the Vatican statement continued, by an exchange of letters between the Italian prime minister and the Vatican Secretary of State in January 2004. The statement notes that the Italian government committed to resolve the question of payment in an April 2004 decree.

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Resistere irritum est. Praeparate vos ad translationem in modum subiunctivum.

[Uriah_lost]

I suppose my first response is an offhanded reference to the scene portrayed in the Chicago papers of the time when the Chicago White Sox players were accused of "throwing" a game in collusion with mob figures. A young fan waiting outside the ball park for his hero, whose name was Joe, reportedly said in a dejected tone, "say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so". I hope that clears up any misunderstanding.

Think of it as an enthusiastic agreement or if you are determined to find some insult in it you could replace it with "thank you Captain Obvious". I know you won't take the second choice since we are both complaining about "Christians" going out of their way to be jerks and thus doing harm to the things WE believe in.
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[Stone Mountain]

Why is paying for bottled water any worse than paying for water piped into your house?

[Uriah_lost]

Please see reply above.

[Alex Murphy]

Why is paying for bottled water any worse than paying for water piped into your house?

If water is supposed to be a "free-for-everyone" commodity, I wonder how these groups propose paying for the pipes that will bring it into everyone's house/apartment/mud hut/cardboard box?

[Elsie]

... water is a God-given resource that should not be packaged and sold...

I've a solution:

Don't buy any!

Collect it when it falls from the sky and do NOT, EVER, pump it into your house!

[Elsie]

Silly gooses!

They are NOT selling water at all!

It's FREE!!!

The packing and transportation is what they are paying for.

[Elsie]

I shudda read ahead!

[Elsie]

Good advice!

[Elsie]

AMEN!

[Elsie]

This is why all MY water purchases are in the GLASS bottles!

[Elsie]

This just in:

The POPE is a father!