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| Irish Catholics flocking to tree stump; They claim it looks like Mary | |
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| ngc1514 | Jul 12 2009, 11:27 AM Post #1 |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_holy_stump
Tree stumps looking like Mary, grilled cheese sandwiches that look also like Mary, the visage of Jesus seen in a plate of pasta. Doesn't anyone ever consider that our representational image of Mary and Jesus isn't what they actually looked like (assuming they existed at all), but how they were thought to appear by paleo-Christians, Medieval iconographers and Renaissance painters. The Images of Jesus site at http://www.religionfacts.com/jesus/image_gallery.htm presents a fair representation of how Jesus has been seen by artists over the centuries - none of which look like a tree stump or a face in a plate of spaghetti. |
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| retired | Jul 12 2009, 04:07 PM Post #2 |
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If it makes people happy and jubilant to see images of the Holy people they believe in and don't force others to do the same so what. No one should be either forced to believe in religion or laughed at for getting a bit carried away in grasping at images. Ya never know what comes after the dirt nap. |
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| ngc1514 | Jul 12 2009, 11:38 PM Post #3 |
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I was just pointing out that the images these people see are resemblences to the images in paintings by the like of Fra Angelico, Masaccio and Bellini. It would be far more accurate for those people to say the tree trunk or spaghetti visage looks like Christ as he appears in Fra Angelico's "The Entombment of Christ" in the National Gallery of Art in Washington than claiming it to be an image of Christ. But, you are correct. Thousands flock to supposed sites of UFO activity here in the US. I see very little difference between both activities. But that's just me. |
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| Mike | Jul 19 2009, 12:39 AM Post #4 |
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I believe in miracles. I doubt God uses toast or tree stumps as a medium to display His image. But then again, I would never suggest to understand or limit in any manner His ways. |
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| ngc1514 | Jul 20 2009, 09:01 AM Post #5 |
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Hey.. surely thousands of Irish Catholics can't be wrong, can they? |
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