CLEANLINESS IS GODLINESS!        DFO1031  Tenerife, 10/1/76

         1. USING HUMAN FERTILISER IS A VERY COMMON PRACTICE IN MOST BACKWARD COUNTRIES. Thank God the Lord made fruit & vegetables so they don't normally carry any kind of infection unless they are infected with worms or the birds have punctured the skin, etc. But it's dangerous if not thoroughly washed before eating.
         2. All these various mollusks & unclean fish that the Bible talks about eat sewage & garbage & live on it. They're the garbage men of the ocean. So contaminants & infection can be spread by unclean fish and also by unclean animals like hogs & pigs.
         3. I'm telling you all this for your kitchen prep! Lettuce is particularly dangerous because there's no way to skin it. Every leaf should be washed thoroughly in running water on both sides.--And any kind of vegetable that you eat whole & don't peel such as cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, celery & even carrots.
         4. ANOTHER POINT IS THIS, THERE'S NOTHING THAT THE FLIES LOVE BETTER THAN HUMAN SEWAGE & DUNG. They just love it! They eat it & they crawl all over it & then they come flying over your garden wall & crawl into the baby's mouth & around the lip of your cup or cross your fresh eggs on the plate & then you stick the cup or food in your mouth & you've had it!
         5. It's just absolutely UNPARDONABLE to allow flies around the house or in the kitchen or where there's food! You must not let flies in the house & around the baby or around the food!--And you must not leave stuff outside that attracts flies. One of the easiest ways to get food contaminated & infected is from flies.
         6. Beloved, you must not let it happen! You've got to keep these doors shut! Keep the flies out or kill them, & keep your food covered & put away. Of all the doors that ought to have a screen on it is that kitchen door!
         7. Flies carry tuberculosis, amoebic dysentery & everything you can think of! I hate them & go after them! Boy oh boy, wasn't that something how God called the Devil Baalzebub, the Lord of the Flies! They are like demons, they infect you!
         8. So now when you see that fly, just remember what it's probably just been crawling on or what it hatched out of! If you could just keep in mind that every fly you see is loaded with horrible germs that are going to make you deathly sick or even kill you, you'd hate flies & you'd chase a fly until you got him & you'd never let another one in the house!
         9. CLEANLINESS IS GODLINESS!--IT'S NOT NEXT TO IT, IT IS GODLINESS TO BE CLEAN! There is a lot in the Bible about keeping clean, in these ceremonial washings of the priests & so on. God was trying to teach people to be clean, that it was important!
         10. You ought to wash EVERY kind of fruit on the outside, even those that you don't eat the skin of, because you're going to touch the skins with your fingers while you're eating or while you're preparing that food for somebody else.
         11. You don't have to worry so much about vegetables that you're going to cook. If you boil the vegetable at least ten minutes, that's it! It's killed nearly every microbe there is! But if you're not going to cook the vegetable & are going to eat it fresh & raw, then you're going to have to make sure it is clean.
         12. You might have to spend as much time on cleaning & washing it as you would cooking it, but it's very very important! I would almost rather you hose off the bananas before you even bring them in the house. I hate for you to even touch them because your fingers get contaminated, you bring all those germs in the house & then God only knows how much they get wafted around in the breeze & into the food.
         13. That's why it's so terrible for you to leave cheese or any food standing around uncovered, jars left open. There are always oodles of bacteria floating around in the air just looking for a place to land & hatch out & to colonise & grow! So you should never ever leave food uncovered!
         14. (MARIA: ALWAYS WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE WORKING WITH THE FOOD--ALWAYS!) AND WASH THE FOOD! Anything in this part of the World, wash it thoroughly on the outside. And if you notice the skin has been punctured & has holes in it, then it can be contaminated inside. So cut out those bad spots.
         15. And after you guys have been down to the market handling filthy dirty vegetables & fruit, for God's sake, what do you do with your hands? Do you go & eat lunch & stick your fingers in your mouth? God only knows what you're getting!
         16. I have such a horror of that that I can't stand to do a thing until I wash my hands afterward, especially if we're going to eat. It's a law with the Jews & the Arabs, to wash your hands before you eat, & that's probably why they've lived so long. So wash your hands before you eat & for God's sake, certainly before you give the baby anything to eat!
         17. Money is one of the dirtiest things you can possibly touch, & yet people take their money & leaf through it & rub their fingers all over it & pay the taxi driver & go right in & eat dinner & wipe the baby's mouth with all that filth from that money! The Bible calls it "filthy lucre", & it is filthy!
         18. That's why I'm so horrified about Davidito picking up shoes! You're horrified if he starts to chew on one, I'm horrified to see him even handling them with his fingers & then stick his fingers in his mouth! The soles of these shoes have been walking downtown where the tuberculars have been spitting on the ground, & the drunks have vomitted, & the people have been walking in the sewage & you're wiping it up & getting it on the soles of your shoes!
         19. Then we bring it in here & wipe it all over the carpet that the baby plays on & drops his pacifier & toys on & then sticks them back in his mouth! We're going to have to start a revolution & insist that everybody leaves their shoes outdoors! We can have a great cleaning day, shampoo the rug, & from then on everybody leaves their shoes outdoors.
         20. THAT'S ANOTHER THING, ABOUT SEX!--There are germs which live in your genitals all the time. But they're perfectly safe & all right in your genitals providing they don't multiply too much through abuse & poor cleanliness & a lot of other reasons.
         21. But they're not good in your eyes or mouth or nose or handling the baby or the food or changing his diaper without washing your hands right after having had sex! It must be some kind of dirt because the Lord says you have to wash yourself in clean water, & soap too, for God's sake, to help kill the germs!
         22. (Maria: And with a little basic thing like sneezing or coughing, be sure to cover your mouths, & when you sneeze into your hand you should make sure you wash it!)
         23. Cleanliness isn't NEXT to Godliness, it IS Godliness, it's part of being Godly! Keep your hands clean, your body clean, your food clean, the air clean, the yard clean & the carpets as clean as you can. It's only God that ever keeps you, but for God's sake, give Him a little cooperation!--GBAKY from germs! Wash everything, keep clean & kill those flies & mosquitoes & roaches!

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