God could have solved so many things if he had made a “stop being fucking stupid and get back to work” a commandment.
It’s so nice to share a message board with someone who can tell time. Thank you, BobLibDem. The use of an image, icon, representation or relic (that last is dicey – read up or ask a priest) to serve as a reminder to worship God is not a violation of any commandment, much less what you call the second but which for Catholics is actually the first:
CynicalGabe, try and look at this as a matter of tradition that manifestations (another way you went wrong – nobody “made” this image as an object of worship) of God, his Son, and his only Mother are worth noticing as reasons to reaffirm one’s faith, much like your own unproven faith that calling people assholes for expressing their religious beliefs is a persuasive tactic.
It was on the third tablet along with “For Christ sake, put that down before you break it!” … which of course Moses dropped and broke.
They’ll have to pry my fucking collectible plate of Elvis that cries blood out of my cold dead hands! 
So when Charlton Heston came down with the 2nd amendment tablet and a gun in his cold dead hand is that the point when he shot up the choclate worshipers?
Just asking, because all this stuff is so confusing…
“I bring you these 15…” crash, “Oy…10…10 commandments”
He then dropped to his knees, pounding his fists into the ground, he yells, "It was chocolate alllll allooooong!!! Damn you all to helllllll!!!
I’m a charismatic stigmatic and I vote
For reference:from the NRSV:
Now, if the workers were manning the machines that made this chocolate squirt of Mary, they ‘made’ themselves the form of something ‘in heaven above’,
Strike one.
No bowing, dammit! The text does remain silent on the kneeling, however. Still, I’d be worried about the great grandchildren, being punished for Grannie’s chocolate veneration.
Oops, which commandment was that, with the damning? 
Georgie porgie,
Pudding and pie,
Licked the Virgins,
And made them cry.
I’m a dyslexic agnostic: “There is no dog”
Or:
“Let me get this straight. I send you down with three tablets, and you smash ALL THREE of them. And now you’re back up here asking for copies? Fuck it, I’m not going through it all again. I’ll give you two of them. They’re just guidelines, anyway.”
You could assume that, but you’d be wrong.
These people are idiots. It obviously wasn’t Mary, but Jesus, thus fulfilling the prophesy of Tom Waits:
Well it’s got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied
Leave her alone. She’s a single mom who had nearly given up and now she’s found faith again. Some people don’t believe until they survive a horrific car crash or something like that. Jacinto, she’s not like the rest of you cynics. She just needed a blob of chocolate.
Personal redemption comes cheap these days.
Nah, not cry. Not unless he was doing it wrong.
According to the Bible, Moses actually did break the Ten Commandments, and had to get them from God again.
The thing I never understood in the Commandments was “thou shalt not make graven images of anything in the sea, in the sky, or on the land.” So you can’t draw anything, or take a picture of anything. Or make a movie or a TV show. Everyone’s going to hell!
So we should applaud her for almost shedding her ignorant belief in a fictional deity but then retaining it because of a chocolate chunk?
I thought it looked more like Osama than the BVM. Why does chocolate hate America?