Holy Chocolate Mary, Batman?
Aug. 18th, 2006 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aribI understand that the human brain is wired up specifically for kinds of pattern recognition, but why is it always the Virgin Mary?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/17/chocolate.mary.ap/index.html
I just don't get it. To quote Carlos Mencia, "Jews don't see Moses in a pastrami sandwich," why do Catholics perpetually see Jesus or Mary in chocolate or pancakes or a potato chip or goodness knows what?
(Okay, there was the talking fish in New Square that spoke Hebrew and predicted the end times, but that's just whacky...)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/17/chocolate.mary.ap/index.html
I just don't get it. To quote Carlos Mencia, "Jews don't see Moses in a pastrami sandwich," why do Catholics perpetually see Jesus or Mary in chocolate or pancakes or a potato chip or goodness knows what?
(Okay, there was the talking fish in New Square that spoke Hebrew and predicted the end times, but that's just whacky...)
