RE: Stupid things religious people say
April 12, 2023 at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2023 at 9:54 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 7, 2023 at 5:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Pilgrims impede progress at site of ‘weeping’ statue of Mary
Cars and coaches clog Trevignano Romano near Rome on the third day of every month when the statue’s owner, Gisella Cardia, appears to enter a state of ecstasy and takes down dictation in a notebook, allegedly from Mary herself.
On Friday a crowd of 600, including pilgrims from Poland, looked on as Cardia revealed Mary had told her to “avoid being tempted by Satan” because a “serious war is coming”.
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The woman is a fraud. I know, what a shock!
Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla investigated after claim blood stains on statue of Virgin Mary come from a pig
A woman nicknamed “the Saint” has mysteriously vanished from a small lakeside town near Rome where pilgrims have flocked for years to pray before a statue of the Virgin Mary that she claimed shed tears of blood.
Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla, known to her followers as Gisella Cardia, originally from Sicily, and her husband reportedly fled Trevignano Romano last week after a private investigator triggered a judicial investigation against her based on his alleged finding that the blood stains on the statue came from a pig.
Scarpulla, who in the past had been convicted of bankruptcy fraud, created a foundation through which she collected donations, which she reportedly said would go towards setting up a centre for sick children.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...s-of-blood
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
