Some Coca-Cola marketing director just had a terrible idea. A terrible, splendid, profitable idea.

I have a buddy who's father is an Anglican Priest once told me that anyone could baptize anyone else with any liquid.

The example he used was someone dying on a battlefield being baptized by his buddy with blood.

So my friend and I got drunk and used beer.

I brought in my babe to the nave.
His soul, I was hoping to save.
And what kissed his flesh is
The Pause That Refreshes™!
We both wound up Catching the Wave®.

'It had gone flat,' Dale was quoted as saying by the newspaper. 'Only the lemon smell made this unusual.'

yes. clearly that's the weird part.

people are silly.

Baptizing with cola? That's nothing. A RC priest gave communion with Coke and soda crackers in the Canadian North back when my parents were children.

Roman Catholics believe in the literal transubstantiation of the Host and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.

Mind you, it just occurred to me that you are what you eat, so if the Communion bread and wine are "consumed" by Christ before being consumed by the communicant, that's not much different from the way that gods and fairies have been doing things for thousands of years. The Spirit eats the spiritual part of the food and the priest and communicants get the body.

Hmmmm ... makes a sort of sense in a folk belief context.

What would Jesus drink?

Apparently he's partial to a cheap red wine, but will accept soft drinks in a pinch.

How European.