From Yahoo News:
Peope are praying to a trickle of salts on a concrete underpass. To me, the image looks more like a Shiva lingam than the Blessed Virgin. . somebody call the Hindus, the Catholics are bogarting their shrine!
It’s incidents such as this that make me feel just a bit smarter than the idiots kneeling and praying to a water stain that they have converted in their minds into a Sign From Above.
I’m not smart enough, however, to close tags in my links.
Didn’t we just have a thread about a guy that paid $1000 for a dorito that looked like the popes hat?
I must jump on this bandwagon. I know I have something around here I can turn into big bucks…
Here in Cleveland, all the tv journalists have become televangelists, and we’re subjected to crap like this day and night. And ongoing stories about faith healing. And people who’ve survived cutting-edge surgery, yet thank the Lord rather than the medical staff.
If I were theistic, I’d be mighty insulted by all this.
I is, though.
Thank you for the assist, Czarcasm.
On Today this morning, I watched one blowzy blonde, who looked like she stepped straight out of Studs Lonigan*, say, “I’m scared. Why would this happen at this time, at this place?”
Because gullibility knows no season or place, perhaps? It just floors me that people can be so superstitious that they look for signs and wonders even on the wall of an underpass.
Heck, there’s mineral stains on the walls of the DC Metro; maybe I could get in on the rosary and candle concession business early!
Sorry, but you’re a few days late.
Shit. The Pope’s been gone only a few weeks, and these fools are already bowing before the graven images.
Its only a matter of time before this becomes reality .
I sure hope Ratzie XVI can keep these savages in line.
Dude…I’m gonna be vulgar: it looks like a vagina.
I can’t even see anything except a smudge that looks vaguely like two hands folded in prayer–and that’s after it was pointed out to me. Y’all have very, very good imaginations.
Well, when I first saw it, I thought, “Cool–it DOES look like a woman folding her hands in prayer!” I did not, however, experience a religious epiphany. Had I thought, “Cool–it DOES look like a man with the head of a jackal!” I would not have converted to Anubis worship.
Daniel
Wouldn’t it be funny if a contingent of Satanists converged on the next Marian-image sighting and claimed it to be their beloved Whore of Babylon?
And not even a virgin vagina at that. 
As an ordained member of the Glurgy, I must link to a photo that I just took out the window behind my computer. See the image of Jesus (or Mary, take your pick) in the birch bark? Huh? Do ya? See it bleeding? Huh? I expect the flood of worshippers to begin arriving within hours. $10 admission. For another ten-spot, I’ll ordain you as a Glurgyman.
Looks like the chick from The Ring to me…
OMG WE’RE ALL DAED IN SEVEN DAYS
It actually looks more like a bleeding penguin. Not sure thats worth $10, perhaps $5?
More, if you’re anti-Linux…
Oddly enough, I’m running a special today…
Hate to burst your bubble, but that looks way more like the view under my horse’s tail after he’s had too much bran mash.
If you listen real close, you can hear the Virgin Mary speaking:
“Get…a…life…”
