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Dennis Donovan

(27,989 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:37 AM 5 hrs ago

Fox News shows fire miracle - home destroyed but stone Virgin Mary statue remains in yard

Julian Sanchez
‪@normative.bsky.social‬
Also the “miracle” here is… God let your family’s home be razed to the ground, but saved the statues?

‪Chuck Logwood
@laughocracy.bsky.social‬
48m
Fox News viewers learning that statues are not flammable or combustible?

Nope.

January 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM


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allflicker
‪@allflicker.bsky.social‬
Why can’t they make the homes out of Virgin Mary statues?
January 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM


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Fox News shows fire miracle - home destroyed but stone Virgin Mary statue remains in yard (Original Post) Dennis Donovan 5 hrs ago OP
Well of course it's not destroyed... sakabatou 5 hrs ago #1
Like their heads! paleotn 5 hrs ago #6
They are out of their fucking minds... PCIntern 5 hrs ago #2
No words. Passages 5 hrs ago #3
They probably JustAnotherGen 5 hrs ago #4
The statue looks suspiciously clean. yardwork 5 hrs ago #11
Thought The Same ProfessorGAC 2 hrs ago #38
Thought The Same ProfessorGAC 2 hrs ago #39
Oh, dear lord. paleotn 5 hrs ago #5
Yup 😹😹😹 Meowmee 5 hrs ago #10
And, judging by the number of churches that burned down, GoCubsGo 4 hrs ago #18
But the Virgin Mary statue. He's all about that! paleotn 3 hrs ago #19
It is his mommy, after all... GoCubsGo 3 hrs ago #20
That's right! I've been away from Protestantism for awhile. Popish idolatry!!!!! paleotn 3 hrs ago #24
It is not worship but veneration sarisataka 3 hrs ago #25
And the protestant would reply that that is a semantic difference thought up by Jesuit lawyers... ExciteBike66 3 hrs ago #27
Virgin Mary Worship Beck23 2 hrs ago #35
But, but, but, StarryNite 1 hr ago #44
I'll bet they have a GoFundMe already up and running. n/t flvegan 5 hrs ago #7
OH THANK GOD!! IT'S A SIGN!1!!1 orleans 5 hrs ago #8
Hold on a second,... magicarpet 2 hrs ago #40
One of students told me his uncles house burned down in pacific palisades and all that remained was a lion kimbutgar 5 hrs ago #9
No miracle surviving swimming pools or chimney stacks? tenderfoot 4 hrs ago #12
I have a picture somewhere Unwind Your Mind 4 hrs ago #13
Over the years, I've seen a lot of pictures of burned-down houses where only a chimney column survives. Intractable 4 hrs ago #14
if only onethatcares 4 hrs ago #15
Catholics have this superstition about selling a house. Jacson6 4 hrs ago #16
That's not the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Iggo 3 hrs ago #23
Uh, Oh, a trigger. Sneederbunk 4 hrs ago #17
My rocks will survive! LeftInTX 3 hrs ago #21
Only if it's God's will. StarryNite 1 hr ago #45
How come Mary and Joseph didn't take one for the team and save the house? Iggo 3 hrs ago #22
for one its a doctored photo Historic NY 3 hrs ago #26
It looks like it might be two photos... GiqueCee 2 hrs ago #30
My science says "Of course it didn't burn it is stone" sarisataka 3 hrs ago #28
Unless they use it to grift. StarryNite 1 hr ago #46
I have seen many people take hope from a statue or other trinket that survived fire. They are in shock, LauraInLA 2 hrs ago #29
Agreed... GiqueCee 2 hrs ago #31
uh, statues dont burn, idiot... FirstLight 2 hrs ago #32
If the statue had burned orangecrush 2 hrs ago #33
Follow the Shoe!!! VGNonly 2 hrs ago #34
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised ... krkaufman 2 hrs ago #36
Willful krkaufman 2 hrs ago #37
"Nothing almost sees miracles but misery." -- King Lear Gaugamela 2 hrs ago #41
How stupid is this. It's freaking stone for pitys sake CanonRay 1 hr ago #42
All the other stone statues burnt down!! Mysterian 1 hr ago #43

JustAnotherGen

(33,929 posts)
4. They probably
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:40 AM
5 hrs ago

Jerry rigged the video to have it appear that way. It's how they shove propaganda down the throats of fake Christians.

ProfessorGAC

(70,942 posts)
38. Thought The Same
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:30 PM
2 hrs ago

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

(70,942 posts)
39. Thought The Same
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:30 PM
2 hrs ago

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

(19,693 posts)
5. Oh, dear lord.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:42 AM
5 hrs ago

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.

Meowmee

(6,444 posts)
10. Yup 😹😹😹
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:47 AM
5 hrs ago

These people can’t be this stupid. Well maybe…This must be just another thing they’re gonna use to grift.

GoCubsGo

(33,248 posts)
18. And, judging by the number of churches that burned down,
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:51 PM
4 hrs ago

Jesus didn't give a shit about his own houses, either. The stupid really is mind-boggling.

GoCubsGo

(33,248 posts)
20. It is his mommy, after all...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:05 PM
3 hrs ago

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?

ExciteBike66

(2,656 posts)
27. And the protestant would reply that that is a semantic difference thought up by Jesuit lawyers...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:34 PM
3 hrs ago

Beck23

(284 posts)
35. Virgin Mary Worship
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:24 PM
2 hrs ago

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.

magicarpet

(17,209 posts)
40. Hold on a second,...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:31 PM
2 hrs ago

.... 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

(23,777 posts)
9. One of students told me his uncles house burned down in pacific palisades and all that remained was a lion
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:46 AM
5 hrs ago

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 !

Intractable

(681 posts)
14. Over the years, I've seen a lot of pictures of burned-down houses where only a chimney column survives.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:56 AM
4 hrs ago

Obviously, we should be worshiping chimneys.

onethatcares

(16,613 posts)
15. if only
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:17 PM
4 hrs ago

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

(915 posts)
16. Catholics have this superstition about selling a house.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:38 PM
4 hrs ago

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

(48,639 posts)
23. That's not the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:10 PM
3 hrs ago

Last edited Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)

But it’s up there.

(EDIT: To be clear, I’m calling them stupid. Not you. )

Iggo

(48,639 posts)
22. How come Mary and Joseph didn't take one for the team and save the house?
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:08 PM
3 hrs ago

Oh yeah, because they’re not real and there’s no such things as miracles.

I’d love to be alive when we leave all this bullshit behind us. But alas…

Historic NY

(38,163 posts)
26. for one its a doctored photo
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:23 PM
3 hrs ago

I figured it would be the famous "Mary or Jesus in a bathtub" but its an aggregate-moulded mix /

GiqueCee

(1,578 posts)
30. It looks like it might be two photos...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:01 PM
2 hrs ago

... 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

(21,340 posts)
28. My science says "Of course it didn't burn it is stone"
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:35 PM
3 hrs ago

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

(10,990 posts)
46. Unless they use it to grift.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 03:28 PM
1 hr ago

Time will tell. Maybe they can sell the miracle statue on eBay and make enough money to build a new house.

LauraInLA

(1,437 posts)
29. I have seen many people take hope from a statue or other trinket that survived fire. They are in shock,
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:55 PM
2 hrs ago

and I will not judge them for something innocuous like this that gives them solace. I especially won’t call them stupid — this impulse seems to extend beyond the religious to agnostics and atheists. I suspect it’s a universal impulse to search for something to hold on to.

GiqueCee

(1,578 posts)
31. Agreed...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:03 PM
2 hrs ago

... any approbation is reserved for the cynical swine at Pox News for exploiting the homeowners' grief.

krkaufman

(13,764 posts)
36. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised ...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:26 PM
2 hrs ago

… if they’re unable to grasp the theme of ‘Green Eggs and Ham’, that the construction principles underlying ‘The Three Little Pigs’ would be a challenge.

krkaufman

(13,764 posts)
37. Willful
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:28 PM
2 hrs ago

It’s not like the metal truck body and brick wall aren’t still intact right by the statue.

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