Bless This Bottled Water

Forget Evian or Vitaminwater. The latest beverage trend: 'Holy Water.'

By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Dec 17, 2007

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  • Posted By: AQUAMANTRA @ 02/18/2010 4:07:46 PM

    It's not the water that affects a person, it is the person's energy affecting the water and in turn ingesting this energy amplified by the water. I have personally enjoyed water from www.aquamantra.com for years and found this to hold true. - stay healthy

  • Posted By: The_epoch_point @ 05/29/2008 9:22:02 PM

    It's about time. Now check out my book at Amazon.com

    The Epoch Point by Spencer Zimmerman is a religious historical conspiracy thriller that follows evil throughout the existence of mankind, revealing the constant conflict between God and the devil, good and evil. Robert Davis is a young Airman fresh out of Air Force basic training who, after being held captive in China, suddenly finds himself unraveling the most immense conspiracy in history. On duty during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he soon uncovers hidden facts suggesting Russian and Iraqi involvement. While exploring abandoned military barracks at Kessler AFB in Mississippi, Davis and his friends discover the diary of Lee Harvey Oswald. Suddenly the Airmen find themselves the target of mysterious agents. As the clues surface, an evil emerges powerful enough to rewrite the entire history of humanity, not to mention kill two of his good friends. Before long the conspiracy takes on a supernatural form, marked by lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes, the wrath of God. Davis finds himself torn by the unbelievable realization that God has a message for him. Nothing could prepare him for the final suspenseful twist the story takes, a Da Vinci style revelation that reaffirms his belief in Christ.

  • Posted By: Sonia4Him @ 01/03/2008 10:08:24 AM

    iN MY EARLIER COMMENT i MEANT TO WRITE" I AM NOTJUDGING"

  • Posted By: Sonia4Him @ 01/03/2008 9:59:07 AM

    i THINK AND HOPE THAT THE REASON THIS COMPANY IS SELLINGHOLY wATER IS TO REMIND PEOPLE TO BE NICE OR BE THANKFUL,BUT TO MAKE MONEY? tHAT IS TRULY WRONG! AND IT MAKES GOOD PEOPLE LOOK BAD AND MONEY HUNGRY. I AM JUDGUNG,I AM NOT GOD,BUT I CAN HOPE AND PRAY THAT THEY ARE DOING FOR A GOOD CAUSE. GOD BLESS THEM AND ALL WHO DRINK IT.

  • Posted By: jjjmac @ 12/11/2007 10:00:09 AM

    The only way to God is through Jesus Christ and his blood shed for us by his death on the cross. Not through some marketing scheme driven by profits,driven by satan, using the purity of God and Christ on a bottle of water.

    • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 12/11/2007 2:30:20 PM

      Luckily, Jesus is opening a drive thru! But wait Stan is offering free shipment. Decisions, Decisions!

      • Posted By: rhiannon @ 12/28/2007 11:40:12 AM

        Who's Stan? heh heh

  • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/12/2007 2:12:35 AM

    Well we have learned a few things on this forum, evolution owns, males rules the earth women need to bow down and they need to worship their man, and that christians are fat ugly people that can not have sex with someone unless its a small church boy. Oh, and one more thing, that we have to stock up on guns and rifles, the end is near, without law and order humans will run rampart in the streets. A particular race, I m not going to even mention them as a group but when they break into your house you need to use deadly force. Shoot them and feel good about it.

    • Posted By: rhiannon @ 12/28/2007 10:30:24 AM

      Jeez, Evolutionist...you have emotional issues. I think you are, as Carat said, a pipsqueak who doesn't actually believe 80% of the crud he writes, but just in case: you DO know, don't you, that physically, genetically, men are inferior to women, right? The XY combo is a mutant...a necessary and positive mutation, do NOT get me wrong! And studies have been going on to determine why the percentages of male children being born are dropping...this is despite the fact that in many Asian countries, female babies are sometimes not reported at birth so that they can be murdered, so the family can use their "child quota" (for overpopulation reasons) to have a male child. Which all boils down to many more females than males are being born in the last several decades. Why? Scientists are calling the male XY combination an "endangered species"....weird.

  • Posted By: JerseyGirl @ 12/13/2007 6:06:46 PM

    I think that this is absolutely ridiculous. I will keep my religious opinion to myself but I think that this is 100% just someone out to manipulate religious peoples into paying absurd amounts of money for the exact same water they can get for free from a public water fountain.....

    • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/13/2007 8:07:06 PM

      JerseyGirl,
      Paying for blessed water is no better or worse than to pay for indulgences or to pay for masses for dead people. One is sold by a company and the other one is sold by the Church.

      • Posted By: rhiannon @ 12/28/2007 9:42:58 AM

        You know, my great uncle had a mass said for his late wife, my great aunt Domenica, who was a wonderful, beautiful woman and my Confirmation sponsor. I don't recall him paying a penny for it. No reputable parish would ask for payment to say a mass.
        Now, I no longer believe the Catholic or Christian practices, as I find more solace in Paganism. But I still think Jesus was one happening guy, and I still thank the Gods every day for my Aunt Domenica's spiritual guidance at a time when I needed it. I feel a spiritually-fulfilled person today thanks in part to her encouragement and help.
        Selling "holy water?" Stupid. Wasteful. But what a way to use the brains given you. I hope they make money hand over fist until the revolution happens and plastic becomes a valuable commodity that idiots don't just toss away like boogers. :)

  • Posted By: Olablue @ 12/26/2007 7:58:45 AM

    You can get all the healing water ( like Lourdes) you want for free at the site of the Our Lady of America apparitions in Rome City, IN. Visit www.oltiv.org for directions and testimonials from those who have visited. No profit is being sought by the owners.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 12/26/2007 4:41:44 AM

    What will people come up with next? Is it really beneficial? Does the idea come through an apparition? Or is it just because of money?

  • Posted By: Shankardada2 @ 12/20/2007 2:49:40 PM

    Someone should market bottles of wine with the label - Blood o' Christ. It could make people feel good about drinking.

    • Posted By: President Hillllary @ 12/20/2007 4:06:12 PM

      ahahahaha

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/20/2007 9:23:31 AM

    William,
    I have only three lines to agree with you that religion has often been used for the wrong purposes. Again it's not God's doing, it's greedy men's doing. Also I'm puzzled about how you came to exist, if not created by God. I'm not a religious person, but a spiritual being who believe in Jesus as my Savior. If for any re

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/20/2007 9:23:29 AM

    William,
    I have only three lines to agree with you that religion has often been used for the wrong purposes. Again it's not God's doing, it's greedy men's doing. Also I'm puzzled about how you came to exist, if not created by God. I'm not a religious person, but a spiritual being who believe in Jesus as my Savior. If for any re

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/20/2007 9:23:29 AM

    William,
    I have only three lines to agree with you that religion has often been used for the wrong purposes. Again it's not God's doing, it's greedy men's doing. Also I'm puzzled about how you came to exist, if not created by God. I'm not a religious person, but a spiritual being who believe in Jesus as my Savior. If for any re

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/20/2007 9:23:28 AM

    William,
    I have only three lines to agree with you that religion has often been used for the wrong purposes. Again it's not God's doing, it's greedy men's doing. Also I'm puzzled about how you came to exist, if not created by God. I'm not a religious person, but a spiritual being who believe in Jesus as my Savior. If for any re

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/20/2007 9:23:22 AM

    William,
    I have only three lines to agree with you that religion has often been used for the wrong purposes. Again it's not God's doing, it's greedy men's doing. Also I'm puzzled about how you came to exist, if not created by God. I'm not a religious person, but a spiritual being who believe in Jesus as my Savior. If for any re

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/19/2007 7:11:04 PM

    William,
    I'm not giving up on you. I know that inside you're hurting. I don't know what you're covering up for, that bothers you so much. Those pedophile priests have hurt countless innocents children. Those priests were sick, they should have been medically treated and send the real guilty ones to jail : WHICH WERE THE ONES WHO COVERED FOR THEM, FROM THE BISHOP TO THE POPE.

    • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 12/20/2007 8:11:25 AM

      Nor I on you. All humans are the same. I for one can accept whatever a person believes, but only up to the point where they want to use force, coercion or the political process to draft innocent minds, and indeed this very country into their clique. Ironically, this brings us back full circle to this article, and my amazement that Christians everywhere aren't boycotting this product.

      If I where to truly believe I owed my own existence and indeed all of existence to a God, and some charlatan where to attempt to sell me plastic bottles of water with blasphemous images of all I help dear on them I would not only boycott the product, I would probably slit the manufacturers throat.

      I believe religion in a home can and often does serve the best interests of the family and society at large, but religion in industry or government undermines the free will of the electorate, the inherent rights of the minority, and erodes society at its foundation. The commercialization or attempts to politize religion divide us at our gut level, and will destroy our society.

      As far as hurting inside personally, you are mistaken, the quality of my life both spiritually and materially is far greater than most and probably more than I deserve.

  • Posted By: jesusrocks @ 12/11/2007 7:13:54 AM

    Satan is all around us. He's there every step you take. You have to be strong and look at him in the face and tell him to piss off. He doesnt bother me at all, I love Jesus and you guys can make fun of me for that. Theres gonna be a day when Jesus returns and burns everything becuase of our sins.

    • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 12/19/2007 3:28:52 PM

      Now Jesus is an Arsonist? Hum pedophilia, homicide, now arson?

  • Posted By: jesusrocks @ 12/11/2007 8:08:02 AM

    Gillis, you asked if I'm serious...0o Serious about what,...Jesus? of course I am. I am not a evil person. I never murdered anyone. I never stolen anything in my life. Sometimes I curse at bad drivers but it's ok becuase traffic can do that to you sometimes. Other than that I am a rold model for all citizens

    • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 12/19/2007 3:26:17 PM

      Rold Model? Like a Kaiser Rold?

  • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/11/2007 11:43:54 AM

    I dont understand why you pathetic humans are crying about this. You are arguing over nothing. Nothing at all. Jesus, God, The Devil do not exist. Go to the library and pick up a science book. It will teach you how to prove things beyong a reasonable doubt. Science is emissable in court....not a belief. Think of all the murder in the world!!!! It's all becuase of religion. You would never see scientists from different countries fighting over a answer to a math question....only one anwser, one proven answer. Scientists all over the world are creating new technologies to help us live longer,...Christians for some reason want to stop it. Cloning and stem cell research to name a few. Scientisits have found a way to use stem cell research without "killing" a unborn child by simply using skin cells. This is a mojor break though....it makes Christians shut their mouths up becuase its not a "moral" thing anymore. If I had a chance to live 100 years longer by killing unborn children,...I would do it in one second, I would not even have to think about it. Thats the difference between Christians and myself. I am God in my own world. My family does what I tell them to and regular citizens as well. If not theres gonna be trouble.

    • Posted By: prmoyers @ 12/11/2007 1:19:22 PM

      In response to you rants, the earth is not 2k years old it is about 6K. Your 2000 year reference only goes back to the time Christ was born. Man did walk on earth with the dinosaurs. Laviathon and Behemoth are mentioned in Job (the oldest book in the Bible). They are not referred to as dinosaurs because the word dinosaur was invented approximately 200 years ago, about the time science started claiming to have an answer for everything. Science is a good thing but can not answer everything. Adult stem cell research is a good thing, I agree with you. Embryonic stem cell research destroys life. Ian Wilmut, the scientist responsible for Dolly now admits that cloning is a futile scientific method for producing new cures. That does not shut this Christians mouth, it makes me proclaim even louder that some areas of science is just wrong. I am a pharmacist, my career and livelyhood is based on science. I would like to point out that in every branch of medical science you will find Christians. Do some research, many renown and brilliant scientist have stated the only way to explain science is there has to be a divine creator. Here is my response to yraay's comments. It applies to your comments as well. I will not quote any scripture to you. You make it obvious that it will not impress you. He is right when he says "If there was [a God], there would only be one. The flip side to that is "If there wasn't a God then everyone would be a doubter. Not everyone is a doubter. This postmodern logic is flawed. God does exist and He is Holy. The reason there are doubters, like you, is He gave us a choice to believe in Him or reject Him. He didn't make us robots or puppets. I suggest that you do have faith. Your faith seems to be in humanity (yourself in your case). The radical autonomy of man and the faith therein is where you end up with nothing. That is the faith of ignorance. Unfortunately, religion has become a business and that is a product of men. It is these men who are deceiving you. Heed yraay's own words, "Please open your eyes, the future of civilization depends on it. For the love of humanity." My prayer for you is that you will ponder the complexity of subatomic particles that make atoms, atoms that make compounds, compounds that make cells, cells that make your tissues, tissues that make your organs, organs that make your a person. I think you would agree the men did not create them or you. You reply with the random chance theory. The men that concocted this theory can not explain the mathmatical impossiblity that life occured by chance. Still they persist in their faith of impossibility because they want an illusion of not having to answer to anyone but themselves. That is radical autonomy as you claim to be a god in your own world. You have a hollow, Hallelujah. With all due respect. Paul

      • Posted By: angelus1967 @ 12/12/2007 11:52:34 AM

        6000 year old Earth? Is it any wonder that rational people think you right wingnuts christians are a laughing stock. There is a huge amount of evedence that the world is 3.5-4 billion years old and a fossil record that goes back millions of years. And religious creationist morons tell us the Earth is 6000 years old......we, the rational, will NEVER take religious people seriously!

        • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 12/19/2007 3:04:33 PM

          Dude, before you trying counting out loud again in public, I recomend you take off your shoes! Every little piggy will help!

      • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/11/2007 2:31:21 PM

        lol at 6k years, I guess carbon dating is a myth and unreal. Humans are a trash species. We have big brains....big deal. It will not gaurantee our survival. Without law and order we would be worse than any animal. We would kill anything that moved. I dont want to be classified with barbaric people that think the world is 2k-6k years old. I am not proud to be of the human race. We are not a civilzed yet, there is different races of humans. We are not all the same. Genetically that would be impossible to prove. The Asians and caucasians have exceeded other races. Wake up and look around you, We are all different. It doesnt hurt my feelings to admit the Chinese were a superior race of humans at one point. They had medicine, math, religion and money before any white man. Even today I have the outmost respect for the Asians, very smart disciplined people. You dont see them begging for money or breaking into houses like other races.

      • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/11/2007 2:11:41 PM

        Did the cavemen use dinosaurs as pets like the cartoon "Flintstones"? rofl!

      • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/11/2007 2:10:29 PM

        Dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years. on the earths time line, humans dont even make a dent in it. What makes humans so righteous? Humans are vile creatures, we are nothing more than animals. Human beings rape, kill, ruin the enviroment. We kill children, have sex with animals, and have sex with the opposite sex. Humans are still living in the jungle with spears in hand. Anaerobic bacteria can survive in outerspace and can remain dormant within mass for millions of years. This type of bacteria can also survive entering the earths atmosphere and slamming into the ground. This type of bacteria can also live in the deepest depths of the oceans shielded from the outside would. If an astoroid would slam into us , it would almost instanly cover the world with toxic air and cover the entire earth with lava. The oceans would evaporate. The only species that would survive would be bacteria once again. Bacteria that can survive inbetween the earths core and surface protected from the lava. Im sure they taught this in Sunday school, lol.

    • Posted By: apostle13 @ 12/11/2007 11:58:12 AM

      god created science and evolution, bless your soul. you need it

      • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/11/2007 12:07:47 PM

        I hear that all the time by the uneducated religious people. When a person though outside the box and used alchemy and potions for medical purposes he or she was branded as a witch and burned alive. Christians have been a violent occult. Though-out history Christians have killed millions of people becuase of their beliefs and also skin color. My father is Catholic and my mother is atheist. I had both worlds, the only one that makes logical sense is science. Churches would have you killed in the early days if you published anything against god. It would probably be that way today if it wasnt for the seperation between church and state.

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/19/2007 1:09:17 PM

    their excuse.
    I find the first line of your comment a little strange : I have had (past) a wonderful life filled with w
    omen (plural) whom I adore (which means : to love deeply). Your comments of the past do not lined up with this statement. I even have kids : is it suppose to mean anything? Are you a Dad to those kids? I don't know if ii

    • Posted By: William.Demuth @ 12/19/2007 2:48:35 PM

      Statements from the past that don't line up? Dude, you MUST be reading the Bible and not this forum!

      All I have ever said is that your religion is a bastion of fools who are afraid of their own death so much that they will trade any lick of common sense they ever had to any con artists that can convince them they don't have to cease existing.

      You do, just like the long since dead Jesus did, and thankfully once you and your ilk are gone, you wont be coming back either!

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