Chocolatiers See Image of Virgin Mary

Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:46 PM EDT
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Lakdasa

And this is the top news story!?

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Reply#1 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:07 PM EDT
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basilbub

Oh..............brother...............

Do I gain eternal salvation if I eat it? :)

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  • 5 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:20 PM EDT
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who

Not if I eat it first.

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#3.1 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:21 PM EDT
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Vulgrin

This tells you that the only way God can get anyone's attention anymore is to put the Virgin Mary in food. First the grilled cheese sandwich, now this. I predict the next one will be a Philly Cheese Steak.

Seriously - what happened to the 40 days and 40 nights of floods guy? Raining frogs? Cataclysm? If I were religious, I'd feel embarrassed that this is how my diety shows him or herself. Especially when a good smiting or two could really be useful....

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  • 7 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:25 PM EDT
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Shawn Gordon

the thing with "OMG it looks like the Virgin Mary" stuff, is... it resembles a painting that was done by men who speculate as to what she looked like. Aside from that, if we thought she looked different than the painting, then it wouldn't look like the Virgin Mary, just an interestingly ugly piece of chocolate.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:49 PM EDT
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Brian Ford

How do we know that God didn't divinely inspire those paintings?

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#5.1 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:13 PM EDT
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Shawn Gordon

The same way we don't know he didn't . Call me a heretic or a blasphemer, but if God divinely inspired a machine to spit out a Virgin Mary chocolate lump, He's pretty bored up there. I think to make it interesting he'd make a Virgin Mary shaped tree or something much more miraculous - like a Virgin Mary shaped Toyota Tundra.

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#5.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:51 PM EDT
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Brian Ford

Eh, I would hope God would have a sense of humor.

For what it's worth -- I was simply playing the Devil's advocate. I don't really believe in God.

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#5.3 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:28 AM EDT
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Shawn Gordon

thats an irony all on its own Brian.. humor.. I like it.

I think God does have a sense of humor, though its usually irony and sarcasm... then you have hte platypus which I would call slapstick humor... what kind of "spare parts" animal is THAT!... maybe that one was more of a David Spade kind of humor... something cynical.

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#5.4 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:06 AM EDT
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Vulgrin
I was simply playing the Devil's advocate

Don't you mean Devil's Food advocate?

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#5.5 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:50 PM EDT
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Brian Ford

Let me guess: Chocolate covered cherry Virgin Mary?

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Reply#7 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:17 PM EDT
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Brian Ford

(Sacrilicious.)

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  • 3 votes
#7.1 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 PM EDT
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Miss Dev

I have a glow-in-the-dark virgin mary with a magnet on her base - I think she's definitely divinely inspired.

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    #7.2 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:31 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":255777,"authorDomain":"ekv"}
    Erik K Veland

    Abpophenia Turn me on dead man Bull@!$%#: Signs from heaven

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    Reply#8 - Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:44 PM EDT
    {"commentId":256199,"authorDomain":"darylicked"}
    darylicked

    FOR SALE: virgin mary sprinkler stain kit.

    apply a quick coat of hair spray over this stencil, and in a few weeks, an image of the Virgin Mary will apear!! amaze your friends! control a so. california neiborhood!! attract attention to your business!! increase the value of your home!!

    only 19.95

    but wait theres more!! get a free virgin mary chocolate mold and toast brander at no extra cost!!

    (see my other post on religion and science)

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#9 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:23 AM EDT
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    QACoach

    I think it actually looks like a red-tailed hawk sitting on a cliff. Of course, that could by the left-over wine in my system... ;-)

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#10 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:35 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":256545,"authorDomain":"MissDev"}
    Miss Dev

    Maybe the man that was trapped in chocolate is in fact the second coming of Jesus - an immaculate conception from the Chocolate Virgin Mary!

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    • 1 vote
    Reply#11 - Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:40 PM EDT
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    Miss Dev

    Immaculate confection! Confection!!!

    Damn my slow wit!

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    • 3 votes
    #11.1 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:04 AM EDT
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    Vulgrin

    LOL, Thank you Miss Dev for a good laugh on this dreary day.

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    #11.2 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:51 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":257772,"authorDomain":"blumonkey"}
    Ivar Hagen

    I guess people see what they want to see....

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      Reply#12 - Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:01 PM EDT
      {"commentId":277540,"authorDomain":"beepbeepitsme"}
      beepbeepitsme

      The Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus Appear On A Potato

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        Reply#13 - Mon Sep 4, 2006 11:57 PM EDT
        {"commentId":277542,"authorDomain":"beepbeepitsme"}
        beepbeepitsme

        The Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus Appear On A Potato

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          Reply#14 - Mon Sep 4, 2006 11:59 PM EDT
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