Russian priests air bomb a city with holy water to rid it of drinking and fornication

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Russian priests air bomb a city with holy water to rid it of drinking and fornication

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It did not work.

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Priests in the Russian city of Tver took to the skies this week to save local citizens from drunken craziness by air-bombing the town with holy water.

Clergymen poured out 70 liters’ worth of sacred liquid from a large chalice through the open door of a rickety green plane on Wednesday, in an escalation of their battle against “drinking” and “fornication,” local outlet Tvernews reported.

Local television showed a priest strapped into a harness to keep him from accidentally falling from the airplane while tipping gallon after gallon onto the city below.

“Let them laugh,” a priest named Father Alexander said. “We’re doing our jobs.”



The move marks just the latest effort to promote sobriety in Russia, a country whose longstanding national love affair with vodka has recently shown signs of ebbing in the face of tightening state liquor laws aimed at improving the country’s health.

Recent stats from the World Health Organization indicate new laws banning the sale of alcohol at gas stations or in Moscow kiosks at night appear, at first glance, to have helped cut Russian per capita alcohol consumption dramatically — from 18.7 liters of pure alcohol in 2005 to 11.7 liters in 2016.

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That should work well. Reminds me of Lon Nol getting a load of sand blessed by monks and then dispersed by air in a circle around the capital to thwart communist attacks. One problem was that the communists weren't too superstitious.
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Mam Prom Mony says he foresaw Prince Sihanouk's overthrow six months in ad vance. He said he deduced this from a phrase in the Trai Ved, a secret Buddhist text, which forecast that when towers of gold and silver were built at the four arms of the Mekong River a swan would leave its nest and there would be war and a comet would appear.

The gold and silver towers, he reasoned, referred to a gambling casino that provided Prince Sihanouk with large sums

Maybe HE is listening to a soothsayer too - so he is closing the casinos quick smart.
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John Bingham wrote:That should work well. Reminds me of Lon Nol getting a load of sand blessed by monks and then dispersed by air in a circle around the capital to thwart communist attacks. One problem was that the communists weren't too superstitious.
Really? If true, that's a funny story, though KR fighters were just as superstitious as the Khmers they were facing. More of a "my amulet/tattoo is better than yours" deal I'd say.
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Everyone deserves a second chance.
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Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:04 pm
John Bingham wrote:That should work well. Reminds me of Lon Nol getting a load of sand blessed by monks and then dispersed by air in a circle around the capital to thwart communist attacks. One problem was that the communists weren't too superstitious.
Really? If true, that's a funny story, though KR fighters were just as superstitious as the Khmers they were facing. More of a "my amulet/tattoo is better than yours" deal I'd say.
Mam Prom Mony, Lon Nol's sorcerer again..
“The other side has recruit ed village witch doctors,” Mam Prom Mony said scornfully.
But the Communists don't have any leading magicians in their ranks.”

Cambodia's Soldiers Get Training in Magic - NYT 1972
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Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. IT BURNS, IT BURNS!!!
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Fornication now down to threenication in areas.
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