Time for god to stop roaddeaths!

Cabaal · 24-03-2016 8:28am #1

http://www.thejournal.ie/crashes-road-mayo-bless-safety-2676749-Mar2016/

Clerics in Mayo to bless the roads in bid to improve driver safety
The move is part of a broader road safety campaign.

Whats worse is....

This comes as part of a broader initiative on road safety by Mayo County Council, with its road safety department and the local emergency services throwing their weight behind it.

Seriously?
Perhaps we should sacrifice some lambs to stop road deaths country wide while we're at it?
:rolleyes:

This type of thing would have been right at home in an episode of Father Ted,

looksee · 24-03-2016 8:44am

So if I travel to Mayo I have to drive on blessed roads? Is there no equality here, are they leaving any roads unblessed for those who do not want to travel religious roads? Would it not be better for those who wish it to have their cars blessed and leave the roads secular?

pauldla · 24-03-2016 9:18am

Ah now OP, would you not be so quick to judge! Sure there might be something it in, it's no worse than what they teach at the seminary...

robindch · 24-03-2016 9:21am

Wrong kind of "holey".

alias no.9 · 24-03-2016 9:21am

Who needs to drive with care and attention on the roads when they've got a Padre Pio sticker in the windscreen to take care of them

GLaDOS · 24-03-2016 9:30am

This is the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened isn't it? Maybe not in Mayo but I remember a thread on this in the past.

Canadel · 24-03-2016 9:30am

In a rational world, road deaths would stop God.

looksee · 24-03-2016 9:40am

Actually you know, you could make a nice little ceremony of blessing the cars. Every year you take your car to the church car park, or somewhere else handy, and have it all nice and clean with a white ribbon on it. Everyone prays over the cars then they are sprinkled with holy water.

Or you could have a blessed puddle of holy water that everyone drives through.

You could have an additional pocket on your windscreen to take a certiicate to show that it is a holy car that has been blessed. Maybe sections of carparks could be set aside for blessed cars so they don't have to mix with the pagan ones.

The government could set up a tax to cover this, of course it would have to be applied to everyone regardless of whether they were car owners, or religious, to cover the cost of the special car parks. Its only fair, I mean the vast majority of people would want to have blessed cars, wouldn't they?

Delirium · 24-03-2016 10:51am

"don't worry! They blessed the road!"

:eek::pac:

Bristolscale7 · 24-03-2016 11:06am

Excellent find. Jesus is my co-pilot. So if there is a road death on these blessed roads the first thing we must ask is, "What did we do wrong that would cause god to forsake us?" If the pries can bless the road to make it safer, maybe a bunch of priest could get together and combine their superpowers to bless the whole world.

magicbastarder · 24-03-2016 12:45pm

will the blessed roads favour christian drivers?

aaronjumper · 24-03-2016 1:38pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

will the blessed roads favour christian drivers?

Only if the roads are nearly full will they get priority, so we should be grand.

GLaDOS · 24-03-2016 2:07pm

ScienceNerd wrote: »

This is the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened isn't it? Maybe not in Mayo but I remember a thread on this in the past.

It was Mayo

http://www.thejournal.ie/roads-in-mayo-get-prayers-and-blessings-in-a-bid-to-reduce-road-deathsroads-in-mayo-get-prayers-and-blessings-in-a-bid-to-reduce-road-deaths-1420708-Apr2014/

Maybe the didn't bless it hard enough the first time?

Pherekydes · 24-03-2016 3:30pm

Prayers and blessings only last so long, you know?

God's a busy personGod. He has a lot of African babies he wants to welcome back to Heaven. By starvation.

Gordon · 24-03-2016 4:05pm

Is there anything to be said for saying another mass on the road?

Cabaal · 24-03-2016 4:16pm

Gordon wrote: »

Is there anything to be said for saying another mass on the road?

Seems awful dangerous, not sure the Gardai could like one on the M50....maybe you can only get away with stuff like this on none busy roads like Mayo? :pac:

aaronjumper · 24-03-2016 4:19pm

Cabaal wrote: »

Seems awful dangerous, not sure the Gardai could like one on the M50....maybe you can only get away with stuff like this on none busy roads like Mayo? :pac:

What about a driveby blessing? If the priest can talk fast enough, organise a bus.

oldrnwisr · 24-03-2016 4:30pm

aaronjumper wrote: »

What about a driveby blessing? If the priest can talk fast enough, organise a bus.

You don't need a bus if you've got a mobile altar

frag420 · 24-03-2016 5:14pm

Maybe the Church can have a word with the insurers about a discount on all blessed cars, everyone would be a Christian all of a sudden!!

What would happen if the water froze and caused an accident? Who is at fault? Act of God?