The tooth fairy and Santa Claus do the same thing in my area, oh, and leprechauns too.

FTFA:

"We touched the image; we thought it was water. You can't get no stain on your hand, so we know its the Virgin Mary,"

A stained, dry sidewalk? In the desert? Only by the grace of God's babymomma.

"He comes out because he wants us to know it's rape day and it's something he wants us to celebrate."

I forgot about that part in the bible where she got old and retired in Phoenix.



/And this..

Virgin my ass, she was a whore that came up with a lame ass excuse when some other jew lnocked her up, luckily for her jacob was a dumbass and bought it.

Holy shiat.



The Catholic Church sure has farked people up with their "Let's Worship Mary" Campaign.


Too bad these people never seem to realize that what they think they see would be an artists' rendition of what that artist imagined Jesus and Mary looked like.

All of the Christ family photos were destroyed in their move from Nazereth to Jerusalem.

Alright, seriously, I'm not afraid to whip out my Godbags when needed but stories like this just make them shrivel.

First I'm not really convinced Mary was "divine" or Jesus for that matter, but, and I mean BUT if they were, I doubt they'd choose to reveal themselves to some random passerby's in a puddle of water.

Not when there's like a Jumbo vision on some big ass skyscraper somewhere.

/If I pinch it just right, my foreskin looks like Joseph, but he goes away when I get wood.
//In other words people like this only hurt the cause of people of faith not help.

leathco
Virgin my ass, she was a whore that came up with a lame ass excuse when some other jew lnocked her up, luckily for her jacob was a dumbass and bought it.

Hey, dummy?

His name was Joseph.


Jacob might have been the real baby daddy, but there was no Maury back then, so we'll never know.

Sidewalk and stucco stains? That's some damn weak sauce from Captain Yahweh.

jacob, joseph, how the hell am i supposed to keep track of all the men she cumguzzled? its not like someoe wrote it down.....

oh wait.....

fark!

People aren't surprised to see her - the 12th of December is her birthday.

Dear Reporter: Do some research on religion before writing about religion.

"She comes out because she wants everyone to know its her birthday and it's something she wants us to celebrate. It's just something that she's happy for."

Dear (presumably Hispanic Roman Catholic) Christian: Do some research on your own religion before believing.

December 8 = Immaculate Conception.
September 8 = Mary's birthday.
December 12 = Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Hilary T. N. Seuss: People aren't surprised to see her - the 12th of December is her birthday.

Dear Reporter: Do some research on religion before writing about religion.

"She comes out because she wants everyone to know its her birthday and it's something she wants us to celebrate. It's just something that she's happy for."

Dear (presumably Hispanic Roman Catholic) Christian: Do some research on your own religion before believing.

December 8 = Immaculate Conception.
September 8 = Mary's birthday.
December 12 = Our Lady of Guadalupe.

You forgot to mention the fact that none of these days matter because God isn't real.

Expensive looking candles aren't they?
I wonder where they got them from...
There always seems to be some opportunistic people involved with these things isn't there?

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

You can suck all the dick you want and still be a virgin, Mary. You can suck all the dick you want and still be the mother of Christ.

/South Park FTW

Hoards? Whoreds? Hordes?

I never can get that right either

leathco: Virgin my ass, she was a whore that came up with a lame ass excuse when some other jew lnocked her up, luckily for her jacob was a dumbass and bought it.



Meh, wasn't a Jew, it was a Roman soldier named Panthera:

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plywoodjungle: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

You can't go wrong with a Hitchhiker's Guide quote!

adeist69: Meh, wasn't a Jew, it was a Roman soldier named Panthera:

Really? This guy?

Fark is so Progressive and edgy.

I wonder if people in China see similar images in the street or on a wall and just wash it away.

Just a program not doing what it is supposed to do.

Neo: Are there other programs like you?

The Oracle: Oh, well, not like me. But... look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here. But the other ones, well, we hear about them all the time.

Neo: I've never heard of them.

The Oracle: Oh, of course you have. Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel. Every story you've ever heard about vampires, werewolves, or aliens, is the system assimilating some program that's doing something they're not supposed to be doing.

Hilary T. N. Seuss: adeist69: Meh, wasn't a Jew, it was a Roman soldier named Panthera:

Really? This guy?


No, he's obviously teh ghey. Note the pink eyeliner.

Amsterdamaged: Expensive looking candles aren't they?
I wonder where they got them from...
There always seems to be some opportunistic people involved with these things isn't there?

I've seen candles like those in the Mexican food aisle at the grocery stores.

MrsGarrett: Amsterdamaged: Expensive looking candles aren't they?
I wonder where they got them from...
There always seems to be some opportunistic people involved with these things isn't there?

I've seen candles like those in the Mexican food aisle at the grocery stores.

Seriously, under 2 bucks at meijer

Crude: Holy shiat.



The Catholic Church sure has farked people up with their "Let's Worship Mary" Campaign.


Too bad these people never seem to realize that what they think they see would be an artists' rendition of what that artist imagined Jesus and Mary looked like.

All of the Christ family photos were destroyed in their move from Nazereth to Jerusalem.

That's a real kicker. I was watching this doco the other day about how depictions of the j-man have changed throughout history. In the early days, he was sometimes shown as a short plump curly haired roman shepard.

Does the bible even mention his appearance?

"We touched the image; we thought it was water. You can't get no stain on your hand, so we know its the Virgin Mary," says one onlooker.

Sleepwalker's Wet Dream: Crude: Holy shiat.



The Catholic Church sure has farked people up with their "Let's Worship Mary" Campaign.


Too bad these people never seem to realize that what they think they see would be an artists' rendition of what that artist imagined Jesus and Mary looked like.

All of the Christ family photos were destroyed in their move from Nazereth to Jerusalem.

That's a real kicker. I was watching this doco the other day about how depictions of the j-man have changed throughout history. In the early days, he was sometimes shown as a short plump curly haired roman shepard.

Does the bible even mention his appearance?

I suppose that if you look at people in the region today that it would make good sense that Jesus looked very similar. Brown skin, dark hair and eyes with a medium build. Certainly not white skin, blonde hair and blue eyes.

That's really Isis and Horus.
Phoenix residents =

I don't put too much stock in appearances of Mary or Jesus on sidewalks, but a lot of the rejection of them here has been seriously flawed.

Complaints about the fact that they look like an artists rendering of Jesus? Assume that this is in fact a divinely created miraculous event. How would God choose to reveal Mary or Jesus, as they actually looked, which no one has any idea about and no one would ever recognize? Or as a commonly accepted depiction in the particular community? I think the right choice is obvious.

Are these people overly credulous? Perhaps, but if their faith is strengthened by miracles I don't see or believe in, I see no reason to mock them for it, my life would be better with more a few more miracles.

Sorry, but people deserve to be mocked for kneeling down and worshipping stains on the street and pictures burned into grilled cheese.

Too bad "thou shalt not be gullible" wasn't a commmandment. There is that false idols one though, guess these folks missed it.

/pareidolia

Full of Grace!

WarpZone
Sorry, but people deserve to be mocked for kneeling down and worshipping stains on the street and pictures burned into grilled cheese.

Agreed. Especially when the given stain barely looks like a person, much less a specific person.

She wasn't a virgin when I nailed her

My sister lived across the street from a woman in Conyers, GA who claimed the Virgin Mary was in her well. (Not exactly sure what the hell she was doing in there, but so be it.) People came from all over the WORLD to look down the well. My sister and her husband charged the morons $10 and let them park in their yard. They made a killing.
So did the woman who owned the well. She charged something similar.

What was that Trent Reznor said? "Let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised, God Money is not one to choose."

This is coming from a Catholic School survivor (it was my own personal Viet Nam): December 8th is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which was when Mary's mother Ann got pregnant - which was considered miraculous because she was really old when she conceived.

The event could be interpreted as a woman cheated on her impotent husband, fooled everyone, then gave birth to Mary. So then her daughter Mary claimed she never had sex with Joseph - which I can only assume was because she cheated with some other guy and wanted to cover her tracks if the baby didn't look like him.

Am I the only one who thought the Bible stories were a little freaky the first time they heard them? I remember thinking (in kindergarten, mind you) what a schmuck Joseph was.

Does religion make people ignorant & gullible, or do ignorant & gullible people find religion?

schattenteufel: Does religion make people ignorant & gullible, or do ignorant & gullible people find religion?

That vine swings either way, friend.

Uh oh, they better be careful or their god will be angry at them for being idolators.

Amsterdamaged: Expensive looking candles aren't they?
I wonder where they got them from...
There always seems to be some opportunistic people involved with these things isn't there?


They sell for under a dollar each at the market by my house. We buy them by the butt load and use them around the pool and patio at night. My favorite one is the crown of thorns bleeding Jubus.

That's Jebus.

Christ, I need more coffee

What is it about desert climates that makes people so crazy?

Short version: Catholics hallucinate a lot.

JesterGirl: Full of Grace!

I LOVE that movie!

/no teabagging!

Crude: The Catholic Church sure has farked people up with their "Let's Worship Mary" Campaign.

The Catholic Church does NOT worship Mary. I'm raised catholic and have gone to church for 21 years (although I've become agnostic in the last 2). They do not worship Mary, they regard her as a saint.

adeist69: Meh, wasn't a Jew, it was a Roman soldier named Panthera Biggus Dickus

hienekenftw
The Catholic Church does NOT worship Mary.

And lots of pagans did not worship rocks. These things are matters of interpretation. Protestants treating icon veneration as idolatry is similar to Catholics treating the usage of such 'spiritual tools' as idolatry.