(August 31, 2020 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(August 31, 2020 at 7:22 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: So in 1531 some guy brings a traditional painting of Mary claiming it came from heaven, that virgin Mary painted it herself, and people believe him?! At least if he brought image that would be very hard to make, like a photo quality imprint of Mary, then maybe I could understand how people fall for it, but painting made with materials and methods of the sixteenth century, replete with standard artistic motifs clearly derived from earlier Spanish paintings, and with clear brush strokes marks on it is just scary gullible.
And she did this to convince a skeptical bishop - seems that scepticism doesn't reach a very high bar in Catholicism.
Is this the most ridiculous hoax in Christianity (aside from Gospels) or what?
There was an episode of Bullshit in which an image Jesus supposedly appeared on an office building window. (I think. It's been a long time since I saw the episode).
Many locals fell for it, calling it a miracle and all those other good things.
When the local sceptics walked around the side of the building, they found the images there, too. It seems the pattern of the sprinklers had left the "images".
Similar to the Crystal Cathedral's "miraculous" image of Mary back in the '80s.
