by Judi McLeod
November 23, 2004
Lefty-environmental types, who tried unsuccessfully to embarrass folk from going to church, have changed tactics to frighten them from going to church.
One of their latest media-touted studies concludes that while churchgoing may be good for your soul, it is also dangerous for your lungs.
Here’s the gist: Researchers at the University of Maastricht measured fine particulate levels in the air of a chapel and a basilica after experiments in which they burned candles for nine hours and simulated a service in which incense was burned.
"They were astonished to find the air had 600-1,000 micrograms of fine particulate matter per cubic metre, 20 times the European Union limit," reports agence France Press.
No they weren’t. They weren’t astonished. Researchers undertook the experiment because they knew where it was going and they wanted results published in the specialist European Respiratory Journal, confirming that stepping inside an ordinary church could seriously pollute you.
The particles found by the university researchers are dangerous to your health "because they can reach very deep into the lungs and, as they often comprise soot, metals or carcinogens, can cause a range of problems ranging from cancer to heart disease."
Moreover, researcher Theo de Kok says the work implies priests, churchworkers and devout worshippers run the risk of respiratory damage.
Give it a break, Theo.
Notice Theo and Company never talked about the dangers inherent in just walking to church, hurrying along city streets breathing in the exhaust fumes of urban traffic.
That’s because smog and automobile exhaust is already the preserve of the government-funded Clean air Society. Every summer you see their members with politicians gathered on well-traversed street corners, faces hidden behind masks. They wave placards reminding passersby that the very air they are breathing is killing them.
There are activists in other areas banning perfume, ridding the planet of the flush toilet and headed after hairspray.
The United Nations already has the skinny on global warming that is melting everything, including your ice cream cone.
In Canada the MPs--from all federal parties--now enjoy a monopoly on trans fats, hydrogenated fats used to prolong the shelf life of processed foods.
The Nanny State in the Land of the Maple Leaf is sending a posse out after the demon doughnut.
Banning trans fats started with New Democrat Party (NDP) MP Pat Martin. No one was surprised when the lemming like Liberals moved over in droves, supporting Martin’s motion. But the anti-nanny state, Conservative Party of Canada is riding along in the same posse.
Now that the left is incensed over incense and candles, the quiet sanctuary provided by the church has become the latest unwitting victim of the lockstep Nanny State.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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