Rou

Seriously people.

That face in your cheese sandwich... it's not the Virgin Mary. It's not Jesus. And it's not Elvis. I swear. That pile of melted chocolate... yeah, it's not Mary either.

I don't understand people who find these things. I can't understand why they tell other people. I don't know why those people don't laugh their ass off at the nutter. I don't get why still other people journey to see the cheese sandwich. I don't get why some of them fork over money to see it.

Sure, I can squint at the water stain on your bathtub or under a freeway overpass and try to see Mary there. Helps if I'm looking for it already, or just trying to figure out what the original nutter saw.

But really, it's not mystical or divine. It's a water stain.

I'm sure there is a mental disconnect that prevents me from understanding these things.

In the end, particularly with the Virgin Mary things, I’m just confused. Putting aside the fact that we have no idea what Mary looked like beyond the model that the Catholic Church made up centuries ago, I'm faced with a couple of other big hurdles between myself and enlightenment. First off, why are we paying homage to an idol? Pretty sure there were some rules against that. Second, even assuming you get past the idol thing, the chosen image is pretty vague and well... easily confused with a pile of melted chocolate. Finally, getting past all of that, what is the religious significance of Mary hanging out under a freeway or in a chocolate factory? What enlightenment does that give us? Unless we're thinking she just slipped in for a quick treat, proving that women have always liked chocolate?

No doubt, part of my disillusionment with it is that I don’t get a spiritual connection with Mary. She doesn’t represent a significant being in my religious world view. But even assuming a religious equivalent could be found dripped on the floor, I don’t think I would do much more than think that it was kinda neat. I suppose we could expect worshippers of Cthulhu to have intense reactions to a mini version of him. But I can help but think that I wouldn’t get worked up about it. Certainly not enough to notify the press and have a story run.