Microbes - 1, Yahweh - 0

Hundreds of Church goers in Long Island, New York have been advised by medical authorities to seek checks and potentially treatment following the discovery that one of their flock had an infectious dose of hepatitis A and shared a communion with them all.

You'd think the Church would have figured out by now that the communal swapping of bodily fluids like this isn't a great idea in this day and age, it's ironic that they are so vocal in disapproval when it comes to swapping fluids during more "normal" human activities, I guess the irony of that passes them by.The bottom line is that evolution hones viruses and bacteria to exploit behavioural habits of hosts (particularly the stupid ones) H1N1 cares not a jot that you sincerely believe in talking snakes and tortured Bronze age philosophers, its going to infect you and follow it's life-cycle through to some conclusion without prejudice.

One can only fantasise about what must be going through the mind of the believer in such circumstances, presumably they sincerely believe that the wine they drink is the actual blood of a mythical super-being, although evidently a being that is unable to combat even the simplest of his own creations? Either that or they must now think all the people in that particular congregation are somehow special and on Santa's very naughty girls and boys list, it must be so frustrating that the simplest and most compelling answer is (by their own making) unavailable to them.