{"id":8243,"date":"2006-08-19T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8243.html"},"modified":"2006-08-19T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T13:17:33","slug":"sweet-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sweet-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Morbo weren’t out of town today, I’m certain he’d be here making fun of this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Workers at a chocolate company [in Fountain Valley, Calif.] have discovered a 2-inch-tall column of [tag]chocolate[\/tag] drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to traditional depictions of the [tag]Virgin Mary[\/tag].<\/p>\n

Since the discovery of the drippings under a vat on Monday, employees of Bodega Chocolates have spent much of their time hovering over the tiny figure, praying and placing rose petals and candles around it.<\/p>\n

“I was raised to believe in the Virgin [tag]Mary[\/tag], but this still gives me the chills,” company co-owner Martucci Angiano said as she balanced the dark brown figure in her hand during an interview Thursday. “Everyone should see this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, a kitchen worker came in to clean up drippings that had accumulated under a large vat of dark chocolate on Monday when she noticed this blob. She said she picked it up and, “I felt emotion just come over me. For me, it was a sign.” The woman added that she’d been considering giving up her faith, but the chocolate has given her “renewed faith.” (CNN has a picture<\/a> of the blob in question)<\/p>\n

I’ve heard of people worshiping chocolate, but this is ridiculous.
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\nThe one thing that’s always struck me as odd in seeing religious imagery in trees, warped glass, grilled-cheese sandwiches, and chocolate blobs is that they’re depictions of depictions. No one knows what Mary looked like, of course, but people have seen artists’ renderings of what they imagined<\/i> she looked like.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, are these “signs” from God or signs from 16th century painters?<\/p>\n

For that matter, if Mary, or Jesus, or whomever, really wanted to offer believers a sign, couldn’t they come up with a slightly less oblique method? And if it is a sign, what is it a sign of? That we’re supposed to eat more chocolate? Or less?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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