Sunday, July 16, 2006

Question of the Day

If you need to anoint someone with oil and all you have is cooking spray, is that good enough?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Only if it is Olive Oil flavored Pam. Otherwise you are a Unitarian.

truevyne said...

What a perplexing question!

Jeff the Baptist said...

Well God respects the Jews use of margarine to get around the kosher prohibition on cream sauces, then I suppose Pam might fly.

I think the olive and cornola derivatives would be a better bet for literal interpretation.

DogBlogger said...

Regardless of whether it's deemed liturgically proper, I don't think it's a good idea to spray the oil directly from the canister onto the person. ("Avoid contact with eyes" and such...) Which is the mental image I got when I read your post.

Jason Woolever said...

spray it all over the sick person's dog, and then start rubbing the sick person mercilessly against the dog. there's a good chance that will take care of any illness.

Anonymous said...

Or better yet, spray it on the sick person and let the dog lick it off.

Kevin Knox said...

Does Pneuma encompass aerosol?

I mean, Christ is the Living Water, so we have a faithful reason to baptize, and the Spirit is oil, so we have a faithful reason to anoint, but aerosol????


It sounds like hanging a horseshoe upside down. All the blessing would get misted and carried away.

Sally said...

Johns dog thinks it is a rabbit so it would be no use- however you coluld spray the sick persons rabbit with pam then get it to hop up and down the sick persons bed, it may result in a well oiled spring in their step

John said...

Rabbits are always good for the sick.