What? The Egyptians (post mortem) pierced the lower skull with a metal rod to remove brain matter. The swab just collects mucus from the nasal chamber. Very uncomfortable, but not brain piercing. And the idea that your connection to God is reliant on the health of your physical organs is rediculous.

Romans 7:38-39 38

" For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."