The Virgin Mary in the Alps

[There was no Virgin Mary. There was no virgin birth. The two stories of Jesus' birth, which disagree drastically with each other in Matthew and Luke, are fables. There was no immaculate conception.]

Nevertheless, in keeping with its policy of keeping the faithful deep in the darkness of religious superstition and ignorance, the Roman Church has "officially recognized that the Virgin Mary appeared to a 17th-century shepherd girl in the French Alps."

[Maybe she was just high, you know, being in the Alps and all?]

How would the church know this? Well, my goodness, they assembled a "panel of experts" to conduct what they call the "recognition process." The panel included not one, but two "theologians," and one "investigating judge." After a truly sound and scientific study, they said it really happened.

[Why'd they wait 'til now? My God, this stuff started over 300 years ago!]

Anyway, a Monsignor Jean-Michel di Falco Leandri spoke on France-2 TV and pronounced "he recognized the 'supernatural origin' of the apparitions to 17-year old Benoite Rencurel from 1664 to 1718."

Jean-Michel must be some really big poohbah in the RC organization, because now the church has said "whoop-dee-doo!" which in French means pilgrims "can come here [the site of the apparitions] in total confidence."

[Right! You can go there in complete confidence you're getting scammed!]

Remember the saying that 10 million Frenchmen can be wrong? Well, every single year, 120,000 poor deluded souls make their way to the place where back in the 17th century the Virgin Mary appeared to this French teenager and told her to build a church and a house to receive priests."

Why would a little Jewish girl who knew from nothing about priests and who (assuming there was a VM) died some 1600 plus years before, appear to a little French girl in the French Alps and tell her to build a church a house to receive priests?

And don't you wonder if all the folks that trod up to visit this apparition site and paid their money to receive "blessings" before the church said they could come in "total confidence" were wasting their time...that because it hadn't been officially approved, it lacked any salvatory effect?

There's simply no accounting for the stupidity of people or the duplicity of the Roman Church!

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