Holy Water

I thought holy water was shipped from rome in the catholic church. I'm not sure if that's true but it's what I heard.. That being said.. holy water began with the concept of holy springs and wells that were said to cure disease and such.. many of which had mineral composites and natural astringents that are known now to kill disease. Later blessing water was done to destroy the 'demons and impurities' of the water.. this water wasn't meant for drinking though.. it had special oils, salt, and astringents in it. i have no idea what the random CHRISTIAN folks do to bless water nowadays besides waving their hands over it and beseeching god. I'm not knocking the practice, i'm just curious as to whether they dropped the material components that helped kill disease in the water.

Haha. Sorry I just had to give a little laugh. Just because the water is blessed doesn't mean it doesn't have germs or contaminants in it! If you could disinfect with a blessing people wouldn't be sick and Lysol would be out of business! I mean you do realize holy water is just water that has been blessed, right? There have even been cases where there was "tainted" holy water that made a child sick I believe. Or maybe I am thinking of a Family Guy episode... But still most of the holy water that comes in those plastic bottles can be tainted or get contaminated, plastic is a porous material. And holy water that people can dip their finger in at the church, well how many fingers were in there before yours? You don't know what they were doing with their hands before they touched the holy water. So yeah, it can be contaminated or have germs.