The temples do the same thing. You pay 20B for a lotus and put it in pot of water next to the Buddha image and then when it's full they all get recycled and sold again. No one thinks anything of that.
Those yellow buckets with food and stuff that you buy and give to monks as an offering are all carefully wrapped in clear wrap to keep them clean for recycle selling. I always wonder why not just give a cash donation?
Then there's Loy Khrtong when you put coins in the boat as an offering to wash away your sins and boys swim around them taking out the coins that were your offering. Do the boys then end up absorbing your sins?
Religions baffle me.
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