For the love of God, people, is this really something that needs our attention?
From Yahoo News:
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities — but on Thursday she held in her hand a Figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star.
Workers at Angiano's gourmet Chocolate company, Bodega Chocolates, discovered under a vat a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary.
Since the discovery Monday, Angiano's employees have spent much of their time hovering over the tiny figure, praying and placing rose petals and candles around it.
"I was raised to believe in the Virgin Mary, but this still gives me the chills," Angiano said as she balanced the dark brown figure in her hand. "Everyone should see this."
Silly me, I thought that as human beings, we are hard-wired to look for faces and forms in the jumble in our surrounding environment as a survival mechanism. Just because some melted chocolate looks like the Virgin Mary, or a water stain in someone's basement could be seen as Jesus nailed to the cross, or a Sticky bun comes out of the oven bearing a striking resemblance to Mother Theresa, doesn't mean that God has sent us a sign to repent our evil ways. I'm sure there are just as many sticky buns sitting in a Dunken Donuts display case in Iowa that look like George Bush, or a turtle, or, hell, they may just look like a sticky bun.
Not to say that I'm privvy to what the Almighty has planned or how he chooses to contact us, but showing up in our food? Especially junk food?
If I was an all-powerful diety, I know exactly where I'd show my face where I'd be able to reach all the sinners that need salvation, and it would make much more of an impact... as an ink stain right over the hooch of Miss November's centerfold in Hustler. Suck on that, Larry Flint!
From Yahoo News:
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities — but on Thursday she held in her hand a Figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star.
Workers at Angiano's gourmet Chocolate company, Bodega Chocolates, discovered under a vat a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary.
Since the discovery Monday, Angiano's employees have spent much of their time hovering over the tiny figure, praying and placing rose petals and candles around it.
"I was raised to believe in the Virgin Mary, but this still gives me the chills," Angiano said as she balanced the dark brown figure in her hand. "Everyone should see this."
Silly me, I thought that as human beings, we are hard-wired to look for faces and forms in the jumble in our surrounding environment as a survival mechanism. Just because some melted chocolate looks like the Virgin Mary, or a water stain in someone's basement could be seen as Jesus nailed to the cross, or a Sticky bun comes out of the oven bearing a striking resemblance to Mother Theresa, doesn't mean that God has sent us a sign to repent our evil ways. I'm sure there are just as many sticky buns sitting in a Dunken Donuts display case in Iowa that look like George Bush, or a turtle, or, hell, they may just look like a sticky bun.
Not to say that I'm privvy to what the Almighty has planned or how he chooses to contact us, but showing up in our food? Especially junk food?
If I was an all-powerful diety, I know exactly where I'd show my face where I'd be able to reach all the sinners that need salvation, and it would make much more of an impact... as an ink stain right over the hooch of Miss November's centerfold in Hustler. Suck on that, Larry Flint!
