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 | The Virgin Mary Challenge |
In Minersville, Pennsylvania, the people are occupying their spare time in the dog days of summer by gathering late each afternoon to stare at one particular spot, where, believers say, a vision of the Virgin Mary appears. Oh, the Virgin Mary doesn’t appear with clothes and speak to anybody like a real person or anything like that. No, believers explain, it’s just that an image of the Virgin Mary seems to appear on a certain spot for a few minutes.
Well, for those people outside of Pennsylvania looking for something to do, I have a challenge. I’ve put together five pictures, one of which is a photograph of what the believers claim is the vision of the Virgin Mary.
First, identify the right picture.
Second, explain what in the picture shows that it is an image of the Virgin Mary, and not something else, like an image of a holy kangaroo, or just a natural pattern of shadow and light.
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Image # 3.
Because it’s obviously the Virgin Mary.
Comment by Jake — 9/1/2007 @ 6:45 pm
I say that it’s obviously a holy kangaroo. Who are you to contradict my faith?
Comment by Fruktata — 9/1/2007 @ 7:02 pm
Even assuming that it’s the virgin Mary, why would anyone assume that her showing up on a garage door indicates that she wants them to go to church? If that were the case, why not show up at a church?
I think this is all a divine reminder to get the scheduled maintenance done on our cars. Clearly, the Holy Spirits want us to change our oil and get some new spark plugs.
Comment by Mike O'Risal — 9/2/2007 @ 10:25 am
I just had to make this pun…
The people who saw the virgin mary, you sure they weren’t taking any bong hits 4 jesus?
Comment by The Animist — 9/3/2007 @ 3:46 am
My guess is ALL OF THEM!
Just because I cannot see the virgin mary, jesus or the image of any other deity, does not mean others also cannot.
We come preprogrammed to find faces. We see faces in clouds, mashed potato, chesses toast and cookies.
This does not mean a god is sending us a personal hello. Get over it!
Comment by Steve Green — 9/3/2007 @ 11:29 pm
Well, clearly it’s got to be image #4, as anyone but a heathen could plainly see. What we have here is a typical image of Mary encased in a glowing aura. If you look closely you can see within the oval aura the outline of a human form, wearing robes and with a kind of wimple-like headdress. Only a woman would wear such attire, and only the Virgin Mary would show up so attired and encased in a glowing aura. QED.
Comment by Jeffrey Stauss — 11/15/2007 @ 1:13 pm
Well it’s obviously calling me to take over the world! DUH! If you don’t like it then it is heresy and I will send my legions of elvis impersonators to beat you with a sliper and a toaster until you submit to my will. Isn’t it obvious?
BUT! If you find it discriminatory against your religion we will destroy it immediately for we do not wish to harm your alternate religion pride. Oh yes and we will ban the “REDSKINS” football team to make the indians happy too!
Comment by Kishvier — 11/15/2007 @ 4:20 pm
I don’t see the virgin mary or any human in any of the pics, but in Pic #5 it looks like mickey mouse’s head with a teddy bear waving next to it.
Comment by crys — 12/8/2007 @ 12:55 am
She’s in all the photos! Are you people blind or something? Oh ye of little faith!
Comment by Holy Joe — 3/30/2008 @ 1:29 am
No. Actually, it’s a trick. The Virgin Mary is not in any of the photos. The Prophet Mohammed is, and he told me that he’s very angry about all the cartoons.
Comment by J. Clifford — 3/30/2008 @ 7:43 am