RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 21, 2025 at 12:51 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2025 at 2:33 am by Fake Messiah.)
Replica image of Jesus mysteriously produces ‘miracle’ myrrh — seemingly healing people worldwide
The $20 image, reportedly rescued from a Toronto bargain bin, is now on display at the Hawaiian capital’s Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church — and it’s oozing myrrh, resin from a tree that grows in Africa and the Middle East.
Think of myrrh as biblical bubblegum — a fragrant tree resin that the Wise Men gave baby Jesus and that Christ followers today say supposedly can cure chronic pain, blindness and cancer.
As a result, it’s now drawing crowds — and believers — from around the globe.
“During the last week of September, I began to notice an unbelievably strong smell of myrrh, at home, in my car, even at work. I couldn’t explain it,” the priest wrote in a letter to his parish.
A closer look revealed a bead of myrrh emerging right on the left knee of the baby Jesus in the icon.
The sticky spectacle didn’t stay secret for long — Father Nectarios snapped photos and showed them to fellow priests.
By the next Sunday service, the congregation was diving in, scooping up the miraculous myrrh like it was holy candy.
In 2008, the Russian Orthodox Church gave the cheap-but-miraculous Iveron icon the ultimate stamp of approval, green-lighting Father Nectarios to hit the road with it.
Since then, he’s paraded the sticky wonder to over 100 churches across the U.S., Europe, and beyond, drawing millions of believers along for the ride.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/lifestyle/...worldwide/
My take on this is that the picture of Jesus is actually a box. A box where the priest can conceal a myrrh container that will eventually seep through a tiny hole in the picture.
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The $20 image, reportedly rescued from a Toronto bargain bin, is now on display at the Hawaiian capital’s Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church — and it’s oozing myrrh, resin from a tree that grows in Africa and the Middle East.
Think of myrrh as biblical bubblegum — a fragrant tree resin that the Wise Men gave baby Jesus and that Christ followers today say supposedly can cure chronic pain, blindness and cancer.
As a result, it’s now drawing crowds — and believers — from around the globe.
“During the last week of September, I began to notice an unbelievably strong smell of myrrh, at home, in my car, even at work. I couldn’t explain it,” the priest wrote in a letter to his parish.
A closer look revealed a bead of myrrh emerging right on the left knee of the baby Jesus in the icon.
The sticky spectacle didn’t stay secret for long — Father Nectarios snapped photos and showed them to fellow priests.
By the next Sunday service, the congregation was diving in, scooping up the miraculous myrrh like it was holy candy.
In 2008, the Russian Orthodox Church gave the cheap-but-miraculous Iveron icon the ultimate stamp of approval, green-lighting Father Nectarios to hit the road with it.
Since then, he’s paraded the sticky wonder to over 100 churches across the U.S., Europe, and beyond, drawing millions of believers along for the ride.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/lifestyle/...worldwide/
My take on this is that the picture of Jesus is actually a box. A box where the priest can conceal a myrrh container that will eventually seep through a tiny hole in the picture.
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"
