Comments on: Bleeding Virgin Mary statue attracts crowds in Baton Rouge

By: Gnou

Gnou — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:01:00 +0000

What started as a tweet in Baton Rouge became news in Tampa Bay. Someone call Edward Lorenz.

By: kiptw

kiptw — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:59:00 +0000

”Let it be!”

By: kiptw

kiptw — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:58:00 +0000

It’s a miracle! God be praised! Gimme money!!

By: Shinkuhadoken

Shinkuhadoken — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:19:00 +0000

*sigh*

You spill one bottle of nail polish and you never hear the end of it…

By: eselqueso

eselqueso — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:37:00 +0000

As Memama would say, “Full of grace! Full of grace!”

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Poke salad Mary,
birdies gotcher berries.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:56:00 +0000

Taking a second look I’m starting to think it might actually be a Carrie Fisher statue.

By: BarelyFitz

BarelyFitz — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:51:00 +0000

“One way to think about it is to see how this is real for those who devote themselves to Mary…”

Reminds me of a quote from Blazing Saddles:

“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:49:00 +0000

I've wanted to make one of these babies for a long time now. Turns out a bunch of people beat me to the idea.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:57:00 +0000

Scheisse! OK, one more try…

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:56:00 +0000

In my hometown a few years ago, a neon light outside a hospital started casting an elongated shadow. In a couple of days, HUNDREDS of devout catholics stood in pious vigil at night. I kept a picture of this miraculous apparition of the Virgin Of Guadalupe, here it is for your spiritual enjoyment.

By: stuck411

stuck411 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:51:00 +0000

How log was it before a holly rolling trinket cart showed up to shill its wares?

By: katkins

katkins — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:50:00 +0000

If that’s pokeberry bird poo, I’m guessing there’s more nearby… holy gutter! Holy car! Holy sidewalk! Holy shirt! (Oh, yeah, I meant to sew that up.)

By: katkins

katkins — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:47:00 +0000

pareidolicious!

By: millie fink

millie fink — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Ha!

(Just had to respond with more than a “Like.”)

Black Jesus!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWf-zlSZvM&feature=relmfu

By: TRH

TRH — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:23:00 +0000

As a practicing Catholic (convert from Baptist!) who is quite accustomed to having the Church, and Catholics in general, bashed at every turn, I have to commend Mark. The quotation is a rather fair one about how such devotions work…. even if some particular devotions – such as this ridiculous bleeding statue – are clearly bunk.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:10:00 +0000

Maybe so. It is intuitive and not necessarily unreasonable. The Church reasons poorly.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:38:00 +0000

(The immaculate) date rape?

By: Mona Tara Morgan

Mona Tara Morgan — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Maybe gawd knocked her out before he knocked her up?

By: Richard Kirk

Richard Kirk — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:29:00 +0000

“You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.” (RSV Exodus 20:3-6).

Jus’ sayin’, is all. Maybe a church down the road that hasn’t got a statue in the news ought to show them the error of their ways.

By: Warren Grant

Warren Grant — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:11:00 +0000

Much of modern Christianity, specifically Catholicism, is derived from the Pagan religions that predated it as well. Myth is not logical by and large.

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:47:00 +0000

That quote is so post-modernist it’s making me bleed too… e_e

By: Phil Fot

Phil Fot — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:40:00 +0000

That was my first thought.

By: peterkvt80

peterkvt80 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:31:00 +0000

Is this part of a new Jammie Dodger campaign? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clu36dt2y88

By: Petzl

Petzl — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:38:00 +0000

Horatio Caine: [Insert bad "Bloody Mary" or "Virgin Bloody Mary" reference followed by Caine putting on trademark sunglasses]
YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
[Roll Titles]

By: Teller

Teller — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:57:00 +0000

Just for your notebook: Haloes were an invention of the Romans, placed on statuary to protect the heads and faces from the elements and, I suppose, birds. From there they evolved into a religious symbol.

By: drunkenpastor

drunkenpastor — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:38:00 +0000

Jesus. Bullet wounds are supposed to bleed.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:39:00 +0000

Homunculicious!

By: Paul Boudreaux

Paul Boudreaux — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:24:00 +0000

I suppose this is what happens when Mitt Romney visits. Is this local news anywhere in Baton Rouge? No, it’s CNN… Speaking of which, I think I’ll have myself a bloody mary and watch the episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia where they find a potentially “holy stain” in the back of their bar…

By: Mary Margaret McCurnin

Mary Margaret McCurnin — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:21:00 +0000

and we wonder why this country is in so much trouble.