Roads in Mayo get prayers and blessings in a bid to reduce road deaths

Cabaal

Seriously the county council need to spend more time actually dealing with bad road designs or working with the Gardai to enforce speed limits then pushing this mickey mouse nonsense,

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/

Roads in Mayo get prayers and blessings in a bid to reduce road deaths
The ceremonies will take place at all Catholic and Church of Ireland churches in the county on Sunday.

Next week Mayo county council are going to pray to the god Thor to ensure that they don't experience massive thunder storms, unlike the catholic god when it comes to road deaths Thor has done a much better job so far when it comes to thunder storms.

TheChizler

Nothing new unfortunately...

Maphisto

It's probably cheaper than repairing or resurfacing

Peanut2011

Well if a prayer and some holy water keep the sons and daughters of Saitan away from those roads the death toll will reduce!

If only it was that easy to resolve all problems.....

Obliq

Maphisto wrote: »

It's probably cheaper than repairing or resurfacing

I dunno really, priesthood could be considered a pretty sweet deal if you're talking performance related pay. Here in the shticks I've noticed it takes at least 3 people in pensionable jobs about 5 mins to fill one pothole (tarmac to remain in place for at least a week to be considered properly "filled"). Prayer may well be cheaper, but dammit, you won't have that week of comfortable driving!!

Hotblack Desiato

Back in the days of Holy Catholic Ireland the death rate on the roads was horrific compared to now. Haven't they considered that religion may make road safety worse?

carlmango11

I'm genuinely surprised at how something this ridiculous could happen. I knew we were bad but this is like something from Father Ted

DazMarz

Wait... so God is protecting the people on these roads now?! Brilliant!!! I'm off down to Mayo to drive a banged up Honda Civic with no seatbelts, talking into two mobile phones simultaneously, necking out of a bottle of vodka and driving at 90mph. Sure God will stop me crashing, won't he?.......... won't he???


Seriously...

Maphisto

DazMarz wrote: »

Wait... so God is protecting the people on these roads now?! Brilliant!!! I'm off down to Mayo to drive a banged up Honda Civic with no seatbelts, talking into two mobile phones simultaneously, necking out of a bottle of vodka and driving at 90mph. Sure God will stop me crashing, won't he?.......... won't he???


Seriously...

Feck off, its obviously bollocks and I live in Mayo - you might hit me

wp_rathead

Sure the Mayo radio station Midwest had Special Mass broadcast live to pray for fine weather last May..

GLaDOS

Is there anything to be said for another mass?

bumper234

wprathead wrote: »

Sure the Mayo radio station Midwest had Special Mass broadcast live to pray for fine weather last May..

Oh sweet baby whatshisface

shruikan2553

Prayer: Because you want to feel like you've done something but can't be assed to actually do it.

Hotblack Desiato

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_in_the_world.PNG




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Road_traffic_accidents_world_map_-_Death_-_WHO2004.svg




Hmmm...

Kiwi in IE

The best way to fix roads is to combine a frog, a newt, a cats whisker, a toenail, a crow's eye, 20mls of horse semen, a morning eye crispy, 5 grams of belly button fluff, 2 grams of toe jam and a litre of goat urine. Boil for 5 hours, 23 minutes and 16 seconds in a large cauldron. Whilst it is cooking residents who live on the road in need of repair must dance naked around the cauldron chanting hail Mary's.

lazygal

Of course God will hurry to protect roads in boggersville instead of starving children in Syria.

corsav6

lazygal wrote: »

Of course God will hurry to protect roads in boggersville instead of starving children in Syria.

Its only boggersville because our good leader Ends seems to have forgotten his roots.
Seriously though, blessing the roads to save lives, its absolutely ridiculous. The roads here in mayo are dangerous, road markings worn off, main roads sinking, ditches disintegrating onto the roads to name just a few problems. Can't see a blessing fixing that.

magicbastarder

Cabaal wrote: »

Seriously the county council need to spend more time actually dealing with bad road designs or working with the Gardai to enforce speed limits then pushing this mickey mouse nonsense

there's no indication that the council are actually behind this; they may just be jumping on an initiative being led by the church, and see an easy and cheap way of chipping in with some road safety publicity.

anyway, it's not the roads which need to be blessed.

lazygal

magicbastarder wrote: »

there's no indication that the council are actually behind this; they may just be jumping on an initiative being led by the church, and see an easy and cheap way of chipping in with some road safety publicity.

anyway, it's not the roads which need to be blessed.

What does need blessing?

magicbastarder

well, you hardly cure dangerous driving by blaming the roads...

Calibos

You've got to be kidding me!! I saw a screenshot of this story in the YLYL thread and just assumed it was another Waterford Whispers satire.

Its a legit story!!??

mcmoustache

Calibos wrote: »

You've got to be kidding me!! I saw a screenshot of this story in the YLYL thread and just assumed it was another Waterford Whispers satire.

Its a legit story!!??

You mean this?

SpaceTime

Yet another reason that I'm thankful that I don't live in Mayo!

hfallada

It's nice to see that mayo coco included church of Ireland in this. Church of Ireland is generally forgotten in a majority of religion talk in Ireland. But it more be nicer to see inclusion of church of Ireland in Irish society in a more productive manner

bumper234

hfallada wrote: »

It's nice to see that mayo coco included church of Ireland in this. Church of Ireland is generally forgotten in a majority of religion talk in Ireland. But it more be nicer to see inclusion of church of Ireland in Irish society in a more productive manner

Poor muslims, Sihks, mormons, Jehova's witnesses and scientologists left out though.

Delirium

"you have to vote Fianna Fail!! He fixed blessed the road!!" :P

Geomy

bumper234 wrote: »

Poor muslims, Sihks, mormons, Jehova's witnesses and scientologists left out though.

And what about the humanists ?

Cabaal

ninja900 wrote: »

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Religion_in_the_world.PNG

Hmmm...

Thing is, many of these countrys pray for rain due to long periods of drought.......the rain doesn't come too often :pac:

Cabaal

magicbastarder wrote: »

well, you hardly cure dangerous driving by blaming the roads...

so the church should bless the drivers?

bumper234

Geomy wrote: »

And what about the humanists ?

Ah they don't count! Who will they pray to

bumper234

Cabaal wrote: »

Thing is, many of these countrys pray for rain due to long periods of drought.......the rain doesn't come too often :pac:

Drought happens.

They pray for rain.

Drought is "Gods" will.

They are saying "God" is wrong and needs to fix this ****?

Maphisto

Cabaal wrote: »

Thing is, many of these countrys pray for rain due to long periods of drought.......the rain doesn't come too often :pac:

Because we get all the rain, because we are God's special people.

Hotblack Desiato

magicbastarder wrote: »

there's no indication that the council are actually behind this; they may just be jumping on an initiative being led by the church, and see an easy and cheap way of chipping in with some road safety publicity.

Story linked in the OP makes it clear it's a Mayo CC initiative.

Cabaal

bumper234 wrote: »

Drought happens.

They pray for rain.

Drought is "Gods" will.

They are saying "God" is wrong and needs to fix this ****?

Road deaths are gods will, after all all deaths are due to the fact that god just needed another angel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oPJQ3yWR8

SpaceTime

Well Mayo residents you elected these people!

Just shows why you need to take local elections more seriously unless you want road blessings instead of practical improvements in infrastructure!

Brian Shanahan

Geomy wrote: »

And what about the humanists ?

The posters from the RSA telling people to variously; stop driving so fast, wear their seatbelts, stop texting their friends, don't be under the influence of alcahol or drugs, &c. while driving serve us very well, thank you very much.

Pawwed Rig

If road deaths drop to zero in Mayo I vote we shut down this forum

Brian Shanahan

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

If road deaths drop to zero in Mayo I vote we shut down this forum

And if they increase we shut down christianity forum I suppose?

Fred Swanson

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Pawwed Rig

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

And if they increase we shut down christianity forum I suppose?

Exactly. This could be the conclusive proof we have all been waiting for.

If there is no change we can conclude at least that blessings and prayer are a waste of time.

Cabaal

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Yep and every time you buy a car you have to get holy water from the local church and bless it, (people did this in the 1950's didn't they?)

Fred Swanson

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Turtwig

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

If road deaths drop to zero in Mayo I vote we shut down this forum

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

And if they increase we shut down christianity forum I suppose?

One month is far too short a duration to observe. We should give it about 1 year or 10. If Mayo had a lot of road deaths recently you'd expect the number to decrease of its own accord - regression to the mean. We'd also probably need to compare it to another county where placebo water was sprinkled on the roads. Comparing both of those to counties with no water sprinkling and very consistent weather. It would certainly be erroneous to declare Holy Water the road death reducer if it was in fact actual water doing the work. Then we'd need to figure out whether bottled or fresh water was more significant. There's science to be done here people! Science!

bumper234

Turtwig wrote: »

One month is far too short a duration to observe. We should give it about 1 year or 10. If Mayo had a lot of road deaths recently you'd expect the number to decrease of its own accord - regression to the mean. We'd also probably need to compare it to another county where placebo water was sprinkled on the roads. Comparing both of those to counties with no water sprinkling and very consistent weather. It would certainly be erroneous to declare Holy Water the road death reducer if it was in fact actual water doing the work. Then we'd need to figure out whether bottled or fresh water was more significant. There's science to be done here people! Science!

Oh oh oh can we get the mythbusters in???

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters

goose2005

Cabaal wrote: »

Road deaths are gods will, after all all deaths are due to the fact that god just needed another angel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oPJQ3yWR8

In the good old days this would have been knocked on its head by a theologian. Angels are spiritual creatures created by God to worship him and acts as his messengers (like a rapper's entourage). Human souls do not become angels. Too wishy-washy these days.

Cabaal

goose2005 wrote: »

In the good old days this would have been knocked on its head by a theologian. Angels are spiritual creatures created by God to worship him and acts as his messengers (like a rapper's entourage). Human souls do not become angels. Too wishy-washy these days.

pfft, a government dept as reported by America's Finest News Source says otherwise

c_man

Great stuff How can anyone suggest that with a straight face?!

shruikan2553

Geomy wrote: »

And what about the humanists ?

Your opinion doesnt matter unless you were told it from invisible people.

Hotblack Desiato

Cabaal wrote: »

Yep and every time you buy a car you have to get holy water from the local church and bless it, (people did this in the 1950's didn't they?)

The second motorbike I bought (in 1996) came with a St. Christopher medallion glued to each side of the frame.

I ditched 'em

Renegade Mechanic

Cabaal wrote: »

Road deaths are gods will, after all all deaths are due to the fact that god just needed another angel

**** me, he must be fighting something big!

weisses

Cabaal wrote: »

Seriously the county council need to spend more time actually dealing with bad road designs or working with the Gardai to enforce speed limits then pushing this mickey mouse nonsense,

What in this ceremony is preventing proper road design and how is the county council involved in such a way that it actually is preventing the Gardai to enforce the speed limits ?