Religion vs science

I came across this in a news article (they are referring the *country* Georgia, not the state)

In Georgia, while the church has told worshippers not to spend long periods of time in churches and not to come if ill, it has rejected calls to abandon the reusing of spoons, claiming that as communion is a holy ceremony it is not possible to get ill during it.

I find their faith touching. I also find it very disturbing.

Like a number of sects in the Us, this sort of thinking is going to get people killed.