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Second appearance for the Virgin Mary at Harlingen dry cleaner? [in the wrinkles of a shirt!]
Valley Central.com ^ | 05.20.2011 | Action 4 News Staff

Posted on 05/23/2011 9:05:03 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

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To: Alex Murphy

It looks like someone melted the fabric a little.


21 posted on 05/23/2011 11:52:44 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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22 posted on 05/23/2011 1:47:21 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM ("Sola Ecclesia")
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To: Jeff Chandler

“How about tortillas?”

You made me laugh. Thanks. No, not tortillas either.


23 posted on 05/23/2011 1:57:24 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: Natural Law

You are probably right. I mean it really does sound stupid. The Virgin Mary decides to show herself in a wrinkled shirt, a piece of toast, a pancake? It makes fun and ridicules Christians in general. See.. look how stupid these people really are?! That type of process. The non-believers don’t just sit comfortably by and allow other people to have their religion. Nope, not a chance. They want God taken off of money, completely out of schools, hospitals etc... They want Him extinct from all human life IMHO.


24 posted on 05/23/2011 2:01:28 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: momtothree; Dr. Brian Kopp
"It makes fun and ridicules Christians in general."

This is nothing more than an attempt to erode the importance and value of Christian Iconography by making connections between the imagery and random and often offensive objects. This was a cornerstone of the Reformation who saw all religious art as an extension of the Catholic Church.

Relying on their false interpretation of the Decalogue's prohibition against "graven images", they ravaged much of the religious art of Northern Europe. Painting, sculptures, statuary, stained glass windows, and tapestries were destroyed.

The underlying reason is clear; religious art could not be twisted or reinterpreted as easily as Scripture and, to a generally illiterate population, the art was a primary source of Christian education.

The fact that so much survives and continues to speak to mankind at a level not manipulable by reformers still drives them nuts.

25 posted on 05/23/2011 2:34:45 PM PDT by Natural Law (Maybe the rapture really did happen and NOBODY made the cut!)
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