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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by bzzzt on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:25AM (#22421367)
Maybe participation in the holy communion by drinking from a cup of wine shared with the entire congregation isn't the best idea right now.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by squiggleblaz on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:34AM (#22423851)
Afaik none of the churches where it has spread were the sort that has that kind of a practice — more pentecostal or cults. (Cults who knows, they could do that. But pentecostals ime don't much like wine and I've never participated a recreation of the last supper when I've been to a pentecostal church.)
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by dependenttypes on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:39AM (#22422143)
I presume that the alcohol from the wine would not be enough to kill the virus, right?
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by paublyrne on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:21AM (#22422307)
It's unlikely, wine's alcohol content is only around 13%, you would need about 4 times that to kill the average virus. It would also be on the lip of the cup rather than in the wine.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by Izkata on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:14PM (#22428529)
As a kid in the 90s, my church had a separate line for kids so we could participate too, and we got grape juice.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by Mountain_Skies on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:15PM (#22430078)
Communion wine is typically only 12%-18% alcohol by volume, so probably not.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by mlang23 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:12AM (#22423605)
IN a part of Austria, they apparently banned holy water now.
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