tommyz
24th April 2005, 07:21 PM
I just got done reading this week's commentary on yet another "sighting" of the Virgin Mary, this time in a Chicago underpass.
I tell ya, people are SO eagerly desperate and lame brained for miracles, it just makes me want to vomit! Don't you think that if you were the spirit of the Virgin Mary, that perhaps you would make yourself more visibly present and noticable in a larger, more open and public domain, so to affect the greatest number of "miracles" for the greatest number of people? Such as Mount Rushmore? Or the Great Wall of China? Or why not the very seat of the Roman Catholic empire itself, and just make yourself visible at Saint Peter's Square in Rome?
I myself am a Christian (albeit a very skeptical and critically thinking one) and find such sightings to be absolutely blashphemous to the spirit of the Blessed Virgin Mary! What makes these people so arrogant and insolent to even know what the actual Virgin Mary looked liked? What if it wasn't the Virgin Mary after all, but instead Saint Barbara? Or Saint Teresa of Avila? I have a portfolio of religious paintings that has artist's renderings of what these individuals looked like; various artist's interpretations of what they may have looked like NOT what they actually DID look like. And to tell you the truth, in my humble opinion, all of these female saints pretty much look the same, according to this portfolio that I have. So wouldn't it be just a little more reverent and practically appropriate to just say: "WE'VE SPOTTED A PAREIDOLIC IMAGE OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE ANY NUMBER OF RELIGIOUSLY HISTORIC FEMALE FIGURES" ????
The very fact that some mentally insipid lady was eager enough to sell the 10 year old sandwhich upon which had the "image of the Virgin Mary" on Ebay proves right then and there what a blasphemous, two-faced, hypocrite of a "sinner" she actually is.
If there was something that you in your heart believed to be so "miraculous" and so "divine," regardless of how mundane it is, why would the sheer THOUGHT of a price tag even come to mind? Doesn't she hold absolutely ANYTHING sacred? Or would she be the kind of person who would also sell her very own spouse, child, mother, father, etc on Ebay?
Any thoughts? Comments?
I tell ya, people are SO eagerly desperate and lame brained for miracles, it just makes me want to vomit! Don't you think that if you were the spirit of the Virgin Mary, that perhaps you would make yourself more visibly present and noticable in a larger, more open and public domain, so to affect the greatest number of "miracles" for the greatest number of people? Such as Mount Rushmore? Or the Great Wall of China? Or why not the very seat of the Roman Catholic empire itself, and just make yourself visible at Saint Peter's Square in Rome?
I myself am a Christian (albeit a very skeptical and critically thinking one) and find such sightings to be absolutely blashphemous to the spirit of the Blessed Virgin Mary! What makes these people so arrogant and insolent to even know what the actual Virgin Mary looked liked? What if it wasn't the Virgin Mary after all, but instead Saint Barbara? Or Saint Teresa of Avila? I have a portfolio of religious paintings that has artist's renderings of what these individuals looked like; various artist's interpretations of what they may have looked like NOT what they actually DID look like. And to tell you the truth, in my humble opinion, all of these female saints pretty much look the same, according to this portfolio that I have. So wouldn't it be just a little more reverent and practically appropriate to just say: "WE'VE SPOTTED A PAREIDOLIC IMAGE OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE ANY NUMBER OF RELIGIOUSLY HISTORIC FEMALE FIGURES" ????
The very fact that some mentally insipid lady was eager enough to sell the 10 year old sandwhich upon which had the "image of the Virgin Mary" on Ebay proves right then and there what a blasphemous, two-faced, hypocrite of a "sinner" she actually is.
If there was something that you in your heart believed to be so "miraculous" and so "divine," regardless of how mundane it is, why would the sheer THOUGHT of a price tag even come to mind? Doesn't she hold absolutely ANYTHING sacred? Or would she be the kind of person who would also sell her very own spouse, child, mother, father, etc on Ebay?
Any thoughts? Comments?