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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 04:29PM
Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

"A total of 90 pupils and staff members at St Augustine’s Catholic High School in Redditch, Worcestershire, suffered chemical burns while having ash crosses smudged onto their foreheads during an Ash Wednesday assembly this week."

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Posted by: Tevai ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 04:34PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

How did they get "chemical burns"?

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Posted by: angela ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 04:37PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

Tevai Wrote:
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> How did they get "chemical burns"?


I'm curious, too. The ashes are supposed to be the ashes made by buring the previous year's palms.

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 04:38PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

https://newsfeeds.media/outrage-as-73-catholic-school-pupils-are-burned-in-ash-wednesday-service/

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Posted by: angela ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 04:44PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

Interesting. Seems it happened back in Ireland a few years back. Something about over buring the palms and mixing it with water. Makes it caustic?

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Posted by: dagny ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 04:57PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

Maybe with water it became strong lye?

I have to wonder why the clergy didn't have it done to themselves first. Are they exempt?

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Posted by: angela ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 05:00PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

dagny Wrote:
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> Maybe with water it became strong lye?
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> I have to wonder why the clergy didn't have it
> done to themselves first. Are they exempt?

No, they are suppose to get them, too. Perhaps the congregation gets them first, then clergy?

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Posted by: babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: March 11, 2019 12:10AM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

They let the palms dry out before burning instead of burning them green. The ash had a much higher pH that way. Or there were vampires in the congregation.

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Posted by: bona dea ( )
Date: March 10, 2019 05:08PM
Re: Another ash wednesday stunt goes bad.

Clergy have them already when they put the ash on the congregations.

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