11/13/2003: Virgin Mary in a tree stump
 

http://cellar.org/2003/marystump.jpg

For a while there IotD was cataloguing the various "sightings" of the Virgin Mary, but there hadn't been any recently... until this. Here we have a tree stump in an empty lot in a poor neighborhood in Passaic, New Jersey. Now it's strewn with candles and notes and crap for all the people who went there to worship a dead tree.

(I.e., morons.)

Re: 11/13/2003: Virgin Mary in a tree stump
 

Hey, they're one up on some folks... at least the dead tree actually exists.

i don't see it? am i blind or pragmatic?

As a Pagan, I feel compelled to point out that we often see the Goddess in the subtle ways of nature, and if Catholicism isn't goddess worship, then nothing is. Therefore, this should come as no surprise whatsoever.

Okay, it would probably come as a surprise to the Catholics to discover that they were goddess worshippers, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

My favorite Virgin Mary sighting was the fogged up double paned glass window version awhile back.

When I was little I used to see these odd things floating in the air if I first focused on something far away then relaxed my eyes on an non existing point. I used to think that they maybe ghosts or spirits.

Then I grew up, went to catholic school, lost all hope and doubt about the nonexistance of god and realized how stupid I had been when I was younger.

Who was it that was talking about idols, and not worshipping them? Wasn't that God?

God didn't like false idols.

I was always partial to the Fencepost Virgin.

Elspode and Torrere: absolutely right. It's yet another demonstration of taking something that supposed to be about fellowship and love, and completely perverting it. Sometimes in bizarre ways.

It has always blown my mind that 'the faithful' always seem to get caught up in the minutate, and completely miss the whole point of their own deities/prophets/idols/whatever.

What part of "Thou shalt not kill" do the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland not get, for example? If you are going to kill each other over religion, shouldn't you at least adhere to your own religions' rules?

Hey, hey, don't be dissing the Druids.:D

I think Druids usually worship living trees, but I imagine they have some reverence for dead ones as well.

Sure, they're the dear departed.;)

Well, if it inspires and stirs folks and isn't hurting anybody, more power to them. Some people just need something to believe in...why not a tree stump that looks like the Blessed Virgin?

Let me know what you consider sacred so I can piss all over it.

Moron.