RE: "Bleeding Religious Statues"
November 15, 2011 at 2:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2011 at 2:35 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
For some reason I'm reminded of that South Park episode where the statue of Mary was bleeding. Out her ass.
One thing that Catholics have to answer is (and yes, it's always Catholics who believe that bleeding statues are miracles), if this really is a miraculous sign from God, what does it mean? Ask twenty different believers and you'll get twenty different explanations. It's as if there really is no miracle and people are just making up their own explanations as to what it's supposed to mean.
I mean, if I want a sign from God, first of all I want to know without any doubt that it's really a sign from God, and secondly I want to know extremely clearly what he is supposed to be telling me. A bleeding statue doesn't really mean much, nor does a vague shape that looks like Jesus in a water stain. I mean, am I supposed to give up all my earthly possessions and follow Jesus (notice how nobody ever gets this as a message), protest an abortion clinic, or try to keep gays from getting married?
One thing that Catholics have to answer is (and yes, it's always Catholics who believe that bleeding statues are miracles), if this really is a miraculous sign from God, what does it mean? Ask twenty different believers and you'll get twenty different explanations. It's as if there really is no miracle and people are just making up their own explanations as to what it's supposed to mean.
I mean, if I want a sign from God, first of all I want to know without any doubt that it's really a sign from God, and secondly I want to know extremely clearly what he is supposed to be telling me. A bleeding statue doesn't really mean much, nor does a vague shape that looks like Jesus in a water stain. I mean, am I supposed to give up all my earthly possessions and follow Jesus (notice how nobody ever gets this as a message), protest an abortion clinic, or try to keep gays from getting married?
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
