Over the years there has been no shortage of religious people with overactive imaginations. They’ve seen Mary in the icebox, on grilled cheese sandwiches, in a bag of Funyuns, and even on a greasy pizza pan. The list unfortunately goes on.
What’s fascinating is the amount of press that these stories have received. For instance, that grilled cheese sandwich managed to fetch a staggering $28,000 and even toured the world! How many of you have toured the world? That’s what I thought :)
There’s an old saying that any press is good press. But does that hold true in this case? Take for instance the pizza pan image of the Virgin Mary. Followers actually marched down the street with the damn thing! Now when I see something like that on the news, I can’t help but laugh my ass off. To me it’s just embarrassing, pathetic, and of course entertaining :)
Now it looks like the Vatican might feel the same way. New Vatican guidelines require all Catholics who claim to see visions of Jesus or the Virgin Mary to remain silent until a team of “experts” can come to assess the situation. This A-Team would consist of psychologists, Theologians, priests, and exorcists. Wow, and I thought the Justice League was badass!
If the Vatican considers the visionary to be credible then they will face examination by one or more demonologists to exclude the possibility that Satan is hiding behind the apparitions. You can’t make this stuff up!
So why is the Vatican going through all this hullabaloo? Are they honestly trying to weed out the fakes and thus admitting this stuff really happens? Or do they know these people are crazy and just want to keep them quiet so the church doesn’t look even more ridiculous?
I honestly don’t know.
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They’re getting dumber at the Vatican based on this story. They used to leave such sightings alone. Getting involved has been a no-win situation for them in recent history. If they investigate and call it a non-miracle, they lose out on at least a local revival of church attendance and donations. If they confirm it, then, often skeptics follow up and reveal that it’s not miraculous at all and the church loses credibility. If they are reverting to a hands-on approach it’s only good for skeptics since miracles never really happen.
Sid, this latest degree of dumbness is perhaps a sign that the Vatican is getting increasingly desperate for attention, due to declining funds and declining followers. Now they hold out their collection cap/plate for new funds, for this new inquisition squad.
But where’s their essential element of surprise? (obvious Python reference).
Religion is ridiculous.
i wonder what degree of dumbness i have to offer since i too am a good skeptic that miracles do happen. should i or we be offended?
i will add a verse of my opinion that will add to this story which will be offensive to everyone who reads this.
The grilled cheese i choose and the rest of the others(ice, funyun, pan or tile) can be summarized by what i am trying to make sense of this.
In Matt 6:19-21 say’s “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The treasure and the blessing was before them yet some chose to profit from this or make a scene and their heart only showed what was to be gained at that moment. I say, where is your treasure?
Im waiting for a new aparition for some light hearted entertainment. Could the next be the image of christ in a dogs turd?
The Jesus in the dogs arsehole of a few years ago made me LOL at work!
Jayman, yeah, that kind of gives new meaning to the frequent claim of religious freaks that god is everywhere if you look for it.
I have this image now of a crowd of religious freaks following a dog around just to look for the next sign of “god” at the first opportunity. Now that’s religion at its source. LOL++
Religion is full of it.
And my goats,
do works
called out in names.
Nothing but a pillar of false hope for the minds of the weak.
I bet there are some tubes running through her and a pump to make it do that.
“Do not pay attention to the man behind the curtain!”
Religions are cults, but with more members!
What’s fascinating is the amount of press that these stories have received. For instance, that grilled cheese sandwich managed to fetch a staggering $28,000 and even toured the world! How many of you have toured the world? That’s what I thought :)
I believe this is the point of interest of the original poster, not the Holy Mary itself.
It is obvious, that there are no free independent mass media organizations today in modern world. Every media belongs to a religious freaking weirdo, or just to an atheist freaking weirdo.
As the matter of fact there are no mass media organisations that belong to just plain normal people.
This is not just very bad, this is the end my friend.
I think it’s pretty obvious why the Vatican wants in on this…$28,000 is a lot of scratch and they feel it’s theirs, seeing as how they own the intellectual copyrights.
And the grilled cheese sandwich, the guy totally missed the whole meaning. If god went to the trouble to supernaturally impose the picture of the Virgin Mary on it, he did it for a purpose! And it probably wasn’t to be paraded around the world and letting the cheese mold. It was to EAT!. Just think how delicious a grilled cheese sandwich is, now imagine how delicious a grilled cheese sandwich with the Virgin Mary on it must taste!
No one has ever seen an authentic image of the Virgin, Jesus, the Apostles, Noah, Moses. What you see is in your head and probably based on the countless artists conceptions Bible as far as I know. As Ron White says: “You can’t fix stupid.”
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