Miracle buster: Why I traced holy water to leaky drain

[RazedInBlack]

Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the "holy" water dripping from a statue of Christ came from a leaky drain.

What did you find?
I had a close look at a nearby washroom and the connected drainage system that passed underneath the concrete base of the cross. I removed some stones from the drain and found it was blocked. I touched the walls, the base and the cross and took some photographs for documentation. It was very simple: water from the washroom, which had been blocked in the clogged drainage system, had been transmitted via capillary action into the adjacent walls and the base of the cross as well as into the wooden cross itself. The water came out through a nail hole and ran down over the statue's feet.

Full story:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...aky-drain.html

[Jab]

When the Catholic church is not protecting child rapists....

Last month we started a petition in support of Sanal Edamaruku, the President of the Indian Rationalist Association facing charges of “deliberately hurting religious feelings" over his exposure of a supposed miracle at a Catholic church in Mumbai. Edamaruku pointed out on TV that the source of "holy water" dripping from a crucifix in the church was in fact a leaky pipe, and this prompted three local Catholic organisations with close connections to the Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay to file complaints against him with the police.

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2012/...n-worsens.html

[porchrat]

What a bunch of morons. They should be thanking the dude for saving them from a health disaster. Imagine having sewer water dripping everywhere. I imagine people were probably drinking the stuff too

[lcbxx]

Amazing what closer, logical, examination reveals, yes?

[DrYes]

So people where shi.tting themselves out of dysentery not fear.

[RazedInBlack]

Amazing what closer, logical examination, reveals, yes?

Clearly!

Those people didn't even bother checking for themselves. Just because the water was dripping from the statue they assumed it was a miracles and the water had healing properties.

[lcbxx]

Clearly!

Those people didn't even bother checking for themselves. Just because the water was dripping from the statue they assumed it was a miracles and the water had healing properties.

Devine Colon cleansing, anyone?

[abzo]

So it was Holy S#it Water?

[CoolBug]

So people where shi.tting themselves out of dysentery not fear.

rolfl

What a bunch of morons. They should be thanking the dude for saving them from a health disaster. Imagine having sewer water dripping everywhere. I imagine people were probably drinking the stuff too

Hey then it's still OmgCriesInTonges holy shyte dripping on Christs' face instead of holy water.

I can even see the nuts eating the shyte just because of it's holiness.

We'll settle for your shyte Jezuhhz *nom* *nom* *nom* *nom* *nom*

Then the Catholics will be really peevd if someone tells them it's their shyte, not Christs'.