Blessed by an Episcopalian? Why not an arbitrageur? Odd choice indeed.

Oy!

I may buy some and mix it with some Kosher salt. It will be very ecumenical, just like my household. Of course in order to truly capture the religious split in my household, I would have to add something to the mix that would represent my dog's outlook. I'm just not sure what salt or spice would be blessed by a nihilist.

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Kosher salt gets its name not because it follows the guidelines for kosher foods as written in the Torah (nearly all salt is kosher, including ordinary table salt), but rather because of its use in making meats kosher, by helping to extract the blood from the meat. Because kosher salt grains are larger than regular table salt grains, when meats are coated in kosher salt the salt does not dissolve readily; the salt remains on the surface of the meat longer to draw fluids out of the meat.

The term kosher salt is restricted to North America; in the UK it is usually called "koshering salt",[3][4] and in other parts of the world, "(coarse) cooking salt". In North America, the term koshering salt has been proposed as more accurate and is sometimes used in industry (e.g., The Salt Institute), but it is rarely used in everyday language.

EL and Owl Meat -- I think MD Canon will beg to differ with your opinion of his services. ;-)

What's that P.T. Barnum quote????

Christian fortune cookies. Would that be the same thing as Christian prophecy cookies?

"You are going on a long journey"

"You will soon meet the man of your dreams"

"Inspected by Number 666"

What does your eucharist wafer say?

This is really stupid.

Neopol at Belvedere Square has rotating flavors of religiously house-smoked sea salt like lemon-rosemary and jalopeno-lime.

I'm reminded of PT Barnum and his white salmon guaranteed not to turn red.

Where is MD Canon?

Wow. I hereby declare by the powers invested in me by average human intelligence that the "Christian" marketing shark has now been jumped, filleted, left in the sun to dry, eaten by voles and pooped out onto the compost pile of popular misconception.

Praise the Lord and pass the condiments!

If I remember correctly, MD Canon is up in New England somewhere, Vermont perhaps?

oh geez... slap jesus on a consumer product, and it HAS to sell...right?

*sigh*

In order for the salt to be Christian, wouldn't it need to be baptized? If they dried the salt after that, would the salvation evaporate?

jl is right. This is beyond Testamints.

"You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men"

Christian product enodorsements haven't been the same since Woody Allen dealt with the subject.

Now is Lots wife is turned into a pillar of Kosher salt or or Christian salt..one would have to assume that since this is an Old Testament occurence(Genesis I believe) it would have to be Kosher.
And what is a good Polish boy (Godlewski ironic huh!)doing with an Episcopal Bishop.
Anybody wanna sell some/buy some indulgences?

Now, Hue, indulgences haven't been (legally) sold in the Roman Catholic Church since the Counter-Reformation (which was hugely disappointing, because they went with the Formica and not with the soapstone, which would have been so much warmer, don't you think?).

Friends ... I've called my colleagues in Allegheny County and no one is answering! Hmmm...

My only real concern has to do with compensation: our standard Letter of Agreement allows clergy to offer their services beyond their parishes for whatever remuneration they can get, so I just hope whoever is doing this is appropriately paid. A tithe of the profits sounds about right.

For what it's worth, here followeth the prayers for the exocism (first) and then the blessing of salt. Apparently the stuff is so spiritually porous that you have to cast out the bad before investing the good. The primary use for these rites is to prepare the salt to bless water used for Baptisms and in holy water staups (those little dishes inside the doors of churches). The little plus signs in the prayers indicate where the priest should make the sign of the cross over the salt with his or her hand.

Priest: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Response: Who made heaven and earth.

P: O salt, creature of God, I exorcise you by the living (+) God, by the true (+) God, by the holy (+) God, by the God who ordered you to be poured into the water by Elisha the prophet, so that its life-giving powers might be restored. I exorcise you so that you may become a means of salvation for believers, that you may bring health of soul and body to all who make use of you, and that you may put to flight and drive away from the places where you are sprinkled; every apparition, villainy, turn of devilish deceit, and every unclean spirit; adjured by him who will come to judge the living and the dead and the world by fire.
R: Amen.

P: Let us pray.
Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly implore you, in your immeasurable kindness and love, to bless (+) this salt which you created and gave to the use of mankind, so that it may become a source of health for the minds and bodies of all who make use of it. May it rid whatever it touches or sprinkles of all uncleanness, and protect it from every assault of evil spirits. Through Christ our Lord.
R: Amen.

And suddenly I'm wondering why I didn't think of this myself -- no middle man!

News flash Hue, those New Testament dudes were Jews too.

Owl Man

I'm a New Testament dude does that make me half Jewish
and if so can I go into the pool up to my waist?(Groucho)

I don't remember the Apostle named Hue.

Christians embarrass themselves yet again.

There's always someone looking to take advantage of the ignorant. I'm sure he'll make millions from this ridiculous idea.

LOLXTIANS

I wonder if it is sold in Lots

God damn!! I wish I would've thought of that!

What Would Jesus Sell?

I personally wear a WWDDD bracelet which I refer to in times of spiritual crisis.

For Daniel Tosh's experience with the WWJD bracelet:
http://tinyurl.com/afn4fv

Owl Meat GameShowHost,

Is that the best you can do for Funtastic Thursday? WWDDD?
What Would Doctor Doolittle Do?
Deputy Dawg?
Delightful Dahlink?

I give up, I don't have time for this.

David Duchovny.

Don't get your knickers in a bocker Lunchy Laura Lee.. Genuine Funtasmagloria was posted three minutes after your comment. We had technical difficulties getting the crazy eyes right ... Oh Cello Girl .....

I like the bracelet that says, "What Would Scooby Doo?"

Stop helping charlatans.

Update from the home team ... My western correspondents have been checking in and the general verdict is "IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!"

(Note: I am, however, apparently at fault for including not enough "a's" in Allegany. Whoever lives by the spell checker, dies by the spell checker. Hopefully, there were enough mea culpa's in a more recent post to cover my sins.)

The best guess is that the purveyor of this sanctified salt has defected north across the Mason-Dixon line (in spirit if not in residence) and is getting his blessings from someone from the "Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh." I will spare the uninterested the long sorry tale, but for the adventurous among you, plug that phrase into your favorite search engine, put on a pot of your favorite caffeine, and settle in for a long and disheartening ride. The "pitanglican.org" you will see first is not in my team's league.

Pittsburgh...isn't that one of the diocese being split by the conservatives?

Having grown up during the fight over the Book of Common Prayer, then women in the priesthood, there is a certain rerun quality to this.

I'm surprised the LDS didn't think of this first. After all, they've got the salt flats to harvest...

Ah, lovely Laura lee--right back at you. If I'm a bit slow on the uptake this week it's because I'm on vacation. (And no, I'm not in Uganda.) I laughed yesterday when the gym instructor told me it was "cold for this time of year" (it was probably 74 degrees).

I'm in a salt panic. How can I be sure I don't get any of that Episcopal gay salt? It looks just like the other salt.

Dahlink - Where are you that 74 is cold for this time of year?

Bucky,
She might be down here in the Sunshine State. Its been cooler than normal for the past few weeks.

Lissa ... Amen to that!

OMG ... my part of the church doesn't care about the orientation or origin of the salt. We welcome any NaCl, gay or straight, iodized or not, Hawaiian pink, Kala Namak, Fleur de Sel, Diamond, Malden or Morton's. We affirm that any salt has the right to be on our table.

OUCH! THE STUPID! IT BURNS!

Joe Godlewski? Good thing his name wasn't Joe Krapapoupolos.

I guess I lost interest in religion when I found out that God loved me, but he wasn't in love with me. Sigh.

We affirm that any salt has the right to be on our table.

Any salt worth its salt, that is.

MD Canon, that is just because you want to use the salt...

(teasing...really. I've nothing against the church of my youth, even though I left it decades ago)

I love you Jennifer

I guess I lost interest in religion when I found out that God loved me, but he wasn't in love with me.

panda girl, you just aren't reading the right saints' lives.

He: Pass the blessed christian salt will you?
She: Darling, DON'T SWEAR IN FRONT OF THE KIDS!

At least 'blessed' salt doesn't kill