• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    6 days ago

    You can literally do it with spit… And that’s not a hypothetical. You can do it with any fluid if necessary… How is this controversial?

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    I mean, I’m not a theologist or anything, but based on other precedents, if someone was dying and what to be baptized at the last second, and no source of water could be arranged on time, the Gatorade baptism would probably be accepted by the Catholic church.

    Transubstantiation of Gatorade into Holy Water doesn’t even sound that outrageous when priests claim to transubstantiate wine to blood on a daily basis.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      This seems to mean that priests can theoretically make any liquid holy, thereby making holy Gatorade.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 days ago

        I just checked and it seems that unfortunately not. At least catholic Priests are only allowed to bless “true water”, which is usually understood to mean that nothing was purposely added to it (with the exception of certain salts for rituals like exorcism).

        • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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          6 days ago

          So is tap water okay, or only where it isn’t fluoridated? What about sea water ? Heavy water ? Rain water ?

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      6 days ago

      Bartender: “Sorry, dude, you’ve had quite a lot, I have to cut you off, just water for you from now on.”

      Jesus: "Dammit… "

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    7 days ago

    Sam and Dean using Holy Church flavoured Gatorade to defeat evil, then drinking the rest to recover their lost electrolytes…

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    7 days ago

    Randal: Hockey’s hockey. At least we got to play. Dante: Twelve minutes is hardly a game. Jesus, it’s hardly even a warm-up. Randal: Bitch, bitch, bitch. You want something to drink? Dante: Yeah. Gatorade. Randal: Hey, what happened to all the Gatorade? Dante: Exactly! They drank it all!

  • raynethackery@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I mean, water has to be blessed by a priest first before it becomes holy. So, what if the only thing available is a bottle of Gatorade but you have a priest? Couldn’t he bless the Gatorade so that the person could be baptized?

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      6 days ago

      Yes, that would be consistent with Catholic doctrine.
      Which means the AI is entirely correct.

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      7 days ago

      This is an interesting question. You can use saliva to baptize in the event of an emergency (lick your thumb and make the sign of the cross on the forehead, in the name of Father, Son, Holy Spirit—but that would likely need a secondary “proper” baptism if the emergency passes, this one counting as “conditional”). Which I guess would supersede ever needing Gatorade since you always have saliva.