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@normative.bsky.social
Also the miracle here is God let your familys home be razed to the ground, but saved the statues?
Chuck Logwood
@laughocracy.bsky.social
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Fox News viewers learning that statues are not flammable or combustible?
Nope.
January 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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@allflicker.bsky.social
Why cant they make the homes out of Virgin Mary statues?
January 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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sakabatou
(43,793 posts)IT'S FUCKING STONE!
paleotn
(19,853 posts)PCIntern
(27,157 posts)Passages
(1,681 posts)I'll be polite.
JustAnotherGen
(34,221 posts)Jerry rigged the video to have it appear that way. It's how they shove propaganda down the throats of fake Christians.
yardwork
(65,230 posts)I'd expect it to at least be black with smoke.
ProfessorGAC
(71,375 posts)It's like someone sprayed it with fireplace brick cleaner before they shot the video.
That said, if there was enough oxygen being pulled in by the firestorm, the combustion could, theoretically, be complete enough to be very close to soot free.
But, that wouldn't be a miracle. It would be simple chemistry.
Either way, their take is ridiculous.
ProfessorGAC
(71,375 posts)It's like someone sprayed it with fireplace brick cleaner before they shot the video.
That said, if there was enough oxygen being pulled in by the firestorm, the combustion could, theoretically, be complete enough to be very close to soot free.
But, that wouldn't be a miracle. It would be simple chemistry.
Either way, their take is ridiculous.
paleotn
(19,853 posts)The stupid. It's beyond imagination.
"Our home is dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus and always has been."
Well, Jesus didn't give a shit about your house, but saved the $50, cheesy CONCRETE statue. Gee, thanks God. Don't knock yourself out with the hard stuff.
These people cant be this stupid. Well maybe This must be just another thing theyre gonna use to grift.
GoCubsGo
(33,397 posts)Jesus didn't give a shit about his own houses, either. The stupid really is mind-boggling.
paleotn
(19,853 posts)GoCubsGo
(33,397 posts)Apparently the folks at The Propaganda Channel don't know that a lot of Protestants are offended by the Catholics' worship of the Virgin Mary?
paleotn
(19,853 posts)sarisataka
(21,460 posts)If anyone cares
ExciteBike66
(2,674 posts)Beck23
(321 posts)The Roman's saw the female goddess staues and painted over the name with 'Virgin Mary'. This happened with a lot of pagan gods. They just got renamed to saints.
This happened to St Nicholas (i.e. Santa Claus). He was a pagan shaman who would slide into people's homes in the winter with a load of magic mushrooms to be dried over the fireplace.
StarryNite
(11,177 posts)they were the wrong churches!
flvegan
(64,727 posts)orleans
(35,537 posts)magicarpet
(17,504 posts).... didn't the fire start from a big bolt of blue lightening flashing out of the heavens ?
This fire stuff is God practicing his skills of red lining and gentrification.
Flexing his realtor muscles if you will.
kimbutgar
(23,984 posts)Statue he had at his front door. It was even in an article in a local paper he showed me online.
So a lion and a Virgin Mary statue survived !
tenderfoot
(8,982 posts)Unwind Your Mind
(2,217 posts)Of a stone pig that survived wildfire
This is deeply stupid
Intractable
(798 posts)Obviously, we should be worshiping chimneys.
onethatcares
(16,654 posts)The statue would give me the winner of the Bucs - Commanders game and the Power Ball numbers I'd believe in da murcal.
I guss their neighbors were gaudless heathensl
Jacson6
(1,007 posts)They would bury a statue of St. Joseph with the head pointed at the house to get a good price on their sale. I kid you not.
I'm Catholic, so bias is not being posted here by me.
Iggo
(48,688 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)
But its up there.
(EDIT: To be clear, Im calling them stupid. Not you. )
Jacson6
(1,007 posts)Iggo
(48,688 posts)being catholic and throwing salt over your shoulder are not the same thing.
Sneederbunk
(15,588 posts)LeftInTX
(32,025 posts)StarryNite
(11,177 posts)Iggo
(48,688 posts)Oh yeah, because theyre not real and theres no such things as miracles.
Id love to be alive when we leave all this bullshit behind us. But alas
Historic NY
(38,360 posts)I figured it would be the famous "Mary or Jesus in a bathtub" but its an aggregate-moulded mix /
GiqueCee
(1,636 posts)... there's a weird, smudgey and slightly angled division between the wreckage of the house and the yard. But that's almost immaterial; the real story is the staggering stupidity of the Pox News premise. What's even worse is how many people actually believe this shit.
sarisataka
(21,460 posts)My faith says "Of course it didn't burn it is stone". If the statue burn and the home didn't that would be a miracle.
However if it gives them solace at the loss of their house, I am willing to let them have it. It harms no one.
StarryNite
(11,177 posts)Time will tell. Maybe they can sell the miracle statue on eBay and make enough money to build a new house.
LauraInLA
(1,668 posts)and I will not judge them for something innocuous like this that gives them solace. I especially wont call them stupid this impulse seems to extend beyond the religious to agnostics and atheists. I suspect its a universal impulse to search for something to hold on to.
GiqueCee
(1,636 posts)... any approbation is reserved for the cynical swine at Pox News for exploiting the homeowners' grief.
FirstLight
(14,476 posts):eyeroll:
orangecrush
(22,861 posts)and the house was saved, I'd start going to church again
VGNonly
(7,907 posts)krkaufman
(13,774 posts)if theyre unable to grasp the theme of Green Eggs and Ham, that the construction principles underlying The Three Little Pigs would be a challenge.
krkaufman
(13,774 posts)Its not like the metal truck body and brick wall arent still intact right by the statue.
Gaugamela
(2,728 posts)CanonRay
(15,025 posts)Of course it didn't burn.
Mysterian
(5,278 posts)HALLELUJAH!
maxsolomon
(35,664 posts)Inside Edition had a story last night about some randos filming themselves lowering an American flag off a pole that was, heaven forfend, in danger of burning. "Don't let it touch the ground!", the dude filming yelled at the one pulling it down.
The announcer lady called them heroes. GMAFB.
jmowreader
(51,788 posts)"The stone Virgin Mary statue in this home's front yard didn't burn!"
"Was it made of coal?"
"No..."
"Then why WOULD it have burned?"
marble falls
(62,862 posts)Richard D
(9,527 posts). . . I'd be willing to bet that if the homeowners had the choice they would have chosen their home to survive and the statues to be destroyed.
Klarkashton
(2,750 posts)unblock
(54,457 posts)It's a miracle! God loves atheists!
Fire spares non-flammable material. Will wonders never cease.
struggle4progress
(121,072 posts)Happy Hoosier
(8,701 posts)Also God: But FUCK our house.
MagickMuffin
(17,305 posts)Not sure of the remarkable turn of events are/were!
Thank god the statues survived for the remarkable turn of events.
Johnny2X2X
(22,124 posts)They're pretty close to breaking into regularly scheduled program because some lady toasted an image of Jesus into her morning toast.