Religion Today

I didn’t even have a beverage at my desk, but when I read “fake fur” I ran to the cooler so I’d have something to do a spit take with!

I can’t even remotely see Mary, but maybe I’m just not on the right drugs.

I think it shows a good reason not to be standing near to that overpass as the concrete isn’t holding and it could collapse.

I always find it funny that anyone would think that their GOD would choose to reveal his majestic omnipotence as a stain on bedsheets, water stains on a dilapidated concrete wall, or a strangely shaped potato. Not quite the old testament razzle dazzle, eh? I favor athiesm myself, but if a giant godly index finger came out of the ceiling of the House and incinerated Tom Delay with lightning bolts, I might reconsider. Heck, I’d be impressed even if it just singed him a bit. But then again, those of greater faith would probably blame it on the vast left wing conspiracy…

So Adam, you never explained exactly what others have said to make you see that this could be The Virgin. Is it because, when you look really closely, you can see the still-intact hymen?

Why do we continue to call Mary a virgin? I’m sure Joseph wasn’t slow in knocking her up again after she had Jesus. Besides, I always though she looked quite a minx in all the paintings and statues.

I had something to say about this yesterday, too. People are so easily led! And, why do we keep seeing “Mary”? I thought that JESUS was the one who promised to return!

This one is just WAY too boring after the Grilled Cheese one.

I thought it was just me. That’s what I saw too.

I think I’ll wander over there today, get some photos and make up some t-shirts. “Virgin of Guadalupe - World Underpass Tour 2005″ or some such non-sense….

If it weren’t for gullibility, we’d have no myths at all, and what a dull world that would be. Imaginings, sweet imaginings…

Hmmmm. If the shoe fits….
extraterrestrial

Main Entry: 1 ex·tra·ter·res·tri·al
Pronunciation: -t&-’res-trE-&l, -’res(h)-ch&l
Function: adjective
: originating, existing, or occurring outside the earth or its atmosphere

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Every sperm is sacred…

Isn’t it interesting that millions accept sex advice from decrepit, isolated old white men, who probably haven’t had an erection in 60 years?

I mean, the Catholic Church sure seems obsessed with something they allegedly know nothing about.

I think I will get some French Ticklers embossed with “Pope Benedict XIV” and hand them out to friends…sure to break the ice at parties, eh?

The publicists for NBC’s “Revelations” have been busy beavers.

(all together now) Oh, what a beauty! I’ve never seen one as big as that before!
Isn’t it wonderful how the eternally gullible look at a five-foot twat and say “Oh, it’s God’s virginal mother. Let’s light a candle or three”. I know what would happen if I tried lighting candles around stuff that looked like that…
Oooh, ooh, it’s an American Merkin Miracle!
I’m not sure I want to get close enough to see if there’s a hymen visible - absolutely everyone would get the wrong idea! They might think I was a priest.

Don’t these idol worshippers realize that if they don’t change their heathen ways, Lobster will condem them to spend eternity in the bottomless pot of fire and brinestone?

Along the same lines as seeing the Christian celebrations as adaptations of the old pagan celebrations - Christmas was once Candlemas, etc. it is easy to suggest that Mary is an adaptation of the Goddess. The Goddess was a fertility deity, and was often represented as a vulva. Ergo this is Mary/Goddess/vulva! It all makes sense to me.

Bob, I think the faithful would say: ‘you just don’t get it.’

Faith is something you get or you don’t. Either you see the Virgin in all her (ahem) glory, or you see a shameless depiction of a 5 foot vulva.
Personally, I think very little of Christianity’s attempts to cover up the pagan religions of yesteryear. I’d rather see a sign of the Goddess than a sign from Him…crappy concrete work or no.

So if this water stain looks like a vagina AND the Virgin Mary at the same time, does that mean that there’s a good chance we can find miraculous images throughout the current issue of Hustler? Or on half the websites on the internet?

Harold,

Those pictures seem to work miracles for me.

Laugh at the apparitions if you will, but my dog once pooped something that looked exactly like the fig that fell off the Bodhi tree onto the Buddha’s head, and made him realize the gravity of the human situation!

I don’t know if I have an unnaturally clean mind (surely not!) or just no imagination, but from the time I saw that thing I thought it looked like a diagram of a tooth I once saw in a dentist’s office, with the enamel and the dentin and the root… But what fun is a tooth?

I guess if you’re Catholic you can, hedera.

Confessional time -

As a collard worshipping pro-enlightenment pagan (golden mistletoe and fatback just doesn’t get it), I was stunned to realize I can see the Virgin of the Overpass. But I could only see in his addendum the vulva of which Adam speaks - and what a heck of technicolor pudendum.

Given the origin of pudendum, the Latin word for something to be ashamed of, piety seems to me to require that one conceive of the Virgin Mary as not having had a pudendum.

Perhaps Lobster performed a Divine Hysterectomy, complete with the requisite Plastic Surgery for Piety, before Impious Puberty could forever thwart the possibility of the Virgin Birth, the Crucifixion, and Mel Gibson’s movie.

touche

Hey, if we can “see” a face on Mars, why not a virgin in a vulva in an underpass?

And none taken, Deno.

Hmm. Adam may someday be able to go out and worship the Virgin of the Underpass in person. In any case, I wonder how long until the local Chicago traffic people start reporting “Virgin blocks” in that area?