Virgin Mary Seen in Pee Stain!
It's been some time since we've had some schmootz appear as a holy image. Last I remember there was an oil goo wad on a window somewhere that was hailed as The Virgin Mary bringing a message of faith to the masses.
Now she's appeared on as "Underpass Mary", a discolored mark on the concrete under the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago. Minutes after some local alchy's acid-bile-rich whiz was deposited on the wall, some Charley Church saw it and thought it looked like Jesus' mom. Hundreds flocked to the site with candles and prayers.
My family comes from that neighborhood and my grandfather was baptized in a church only blocks away from that site. I'd like to believe that such things are true.
However, any objective reasonable inspection of the image brings to mind the obstentrics page of Gray's Anatomy long before it conjures up the Holy Mother. In fact, the image is downright pornographic!
So while I'm working hard today on Sunday to forward our understanding of facts and science, the belivers will be lighting candles in front of a giant concrete vagina, that ironically is thought to be a virgin.
It also says, "Go Cubs" right off to the right side, so maybe Mary is here to stoke pennant fever in the Windy City.
My head aches for how stupid we are.
posted by Schmootzie @ 9:38 AM
3 Comments:
Schmootzie,
You have to come to terms with the fact that we Americans are a stain-worshipping society. We see nobility and holiness in stains, smudges, and mold (q.v. Bush, George W.)
We are pattern-seeking animals, it is true, but we take this pattern-seeking obsession one step further by glorifying and mystifying oil streaks, urine splotches, and moldy crusts and infusing them with religious iconography.
In a way, it's like looking at a chimpanzee and believing it could lead a nation because it resembles some part of us. It looks human, so perhaps, it could act human.
But tragically, we know this is not correct.
So it is with these stains, they look like saintly beings, and then we humans pathetically believe that those saints from the other side care about us and wish to tell us something important. But in reality, the stains are just slimey detritus that we stubbornly try to make into gods, so that we may give meaning to our earthly travail, which is stained with superstition and ignorance.
Alas. Alas. Alas.
IDP...
You hit the nail on the head. It is amazing that we tend to glare past facts and information to see what we want to believe is there.
It happens a whole lot more in red states.
schmootzeeeeee
why does it look like the VIRGIN Mary is about to take it doggy style?
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