The 100-year anniversay of Fatima is coming-up!

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'd be surprised if 3% of American believers know of Fatima at all, and of those, I bet 45% think she's the gal cleaning the kitchen while Mom's shitposting on Facebook.

[Minimalist]

And the other 55% want her thrown out of the country because they think she's a muslim.

[chimp3]

Celebrate 1,000,000 Armenian Christians massacred while gods did nothing except make the sun jiggle in the sky for a few Catlicks.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Celebrate 1,000,000 Armenian Christians massacred while gods did nothing except make the sun jiggle in the sky for a few Catlicks.

Well, those sad-sacks were Muslim, surely an optical illusion was more entertaining to The Deity than was, you know, doing good deeds like saving lives.

[Astreja]

I would not want to be an ophthalmologist during this centennial. Almost certainly someone is going to be stupid enough to stare at the sun.

[LastPoet]

I would not want to be an ophthalmologist during this centennial.  Almost certainly someone is going to be stupid enough to stare at the sun.

I live here and the common folk belief is in the virgin mary. It has a lot of paganistic influences. People peomise to the virgin mary to walk to fatima sometimes barefoot some on the knees for help in harsh times.

They use roads in said pilgrimages. Suffice to say, road accidents with deaths happen. Sadly over fantasy.

[Jehanne]

I would not want to be an ophthalmologist during this centennial.  Almost certainly someone is going to be stupid enough to stare at the sun.

Sadly, that happened to a girl in Florida who has suffered permanent eye damage as a result.  I am too depressed about it to post the link.

[Silver]

I live here and the common folk belief is in the virgin mary. It has a lot of paganistic influences.

Of course, it does. Anthropologically speaking, the Virgin Mary is a mere evolution of previous pagan goddesses in history.

[Astreja]

I live here and the common folk belief is in the virgin mary. It has a lot of paganistic influences.

Of course, it does.  Anthropologically speaking, the Virgin Mary is a mere evolution of previous pagan goddesses in history.

And the addition of a goddess to the resurrection myth would make it slightly less implausible than a god resurrecting itself, too.

  How are you gentlemen!!  All your Easter are belong to Us.

[Jehanne]

I live here and the common folk belief is in the virgin mary. It has a lot of paganistic influences.

Of course, it does.  Anthropologically speaking, the Virgin Mary is a mere evolution of previous pagan goddesses in history.

Jesus and sacred sex. In modern novels (The Da Vinci Code!) Jesus is said to have had a sexual relation with Mary Magdalene. Even stranger tales of Jesus, Mary, and sex were told in ancient Gospels; by all counts the strangest was The Greater Questions of Mary, now lost but quoted once by an early Church Father. According to this tale, Jesus took Mary alone up onto a mountain, and as she watched, he pulled a woman from his side and began to have sex with her. What happens next is even stranger, as it involves a case of divine coitus interruptus and the consumption of semen. Mary, not surprisingly, faints on the spot.

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