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September 9th, 2011
11:08 AM ET
Family credits Virgin Mary statue for saving their house from wildfire(CNN)– Wildfires are raging in Texas. At the Garcia's home in Montgomery County, Texas the fire line comes right up to a statue of the Virgin Mary. The family tells CNN affiliate KTRK they believe the statue helped saved their home.
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ANybody in Canada
Big Vancouver quake
Why does it bother you if this family believes? It does not hurt you....but you rail as if it does.
I have an unending desire to help them just like the general public in north korea.
...and this "unending desire" to help many people....is it manifested in real tangible ways, or just through posting your opinion on a CNN blog?
Yup, i'm an astronomer by trade trying everyday to figure out just a little bit of what this place actually is.
I do this for all of us to discover where we find ourselves. Really what is this place. Pretty amazing what we learn each year. Would be nice if people spent an hour each sunday reading sky and tele instead of old violent political driven stories.
LOL... I love it... The world gets worse, more corrupt, and idiots like you come out saying "god is not real". Yeah, because you scientifically proved this. hate to tell ya but a study was done and the americans with higher IQ's were more religious then the low brows. See you only choose to say gods not real because your ignorant and uneducated.. Faith can be an amazing thing... But gods not going to spread the clouds and throw u a bag of money and say "BELIEVE!" LOL... have fun drowning in your own drool tonight and burning in hell afterwards 😉
So... those who believe in 2000 year old folklore are smarter than those who believe in proven tested science? Your study is crap.
Listen, Mr, Educated: The problem is not the God concept. It is the book that is full of contradictions, hate and fables. If God really exists, he'she/it is one inept being who does not know how to be coherent enough to let everyone NOT misinterpret the useless books all these religions claim as the WORD. Next! .... Get me a grown up, please.
Give me some proofs that your tested science has proved that there is no God.....
@geebs
Let me help you out here because you, like so many other peers of yours seem to not understand is, science has failed to prove there is a god. Now does that mean he absolutely does not exist? No, he very well might. But same can be said for a teapot floating right now between mars and jupiter. Have we found a teapot there orbiting the sun? No, but does that mean there isn't one that we're absoultely certain of? Also no.
Geddit?
Hey geebs, give me some proof that my cow did not fly over your house last night? Get it, moron?
Hey genius. gods should be god's and your should be you're. Apparently not all religious freaks are well educated.
@frankie
Great comeback. this definitely ranks right up there as "further proof" that God doesn't exist..
How about the next time someone dies in a car crash we use the headline “God fails to save family of four”?
Amen!
Yes! Can even have an unending scrolling page updated every 3 seconds each time an infant dies of starvation due to God's inability or lack of interest in popping up some corn around them. Either that is too difficult for the creator of the universe or he's clearly a total aszhole. If i meet the jerk someday i'll do my best to kick him square in the nuts repeatedly just in case he has any.
GOD FAILS TO STOP EARTHQUAKE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
GOD FAILS TO STOP STOCK PLUNGE
GOD FAILS TO STOP HURRICANE LEE'S FLOOD TOLL
GOD FAILS TO STOP 10 OIL RIG WORKERS FROM GOING MISSING
GOD FAILS TO STOP TEXAS FIRES
GOD FAILS TO STOP CHARLIE SHEEN FROM LANDING MOVIE ROLL
What have you done to help the starving infant (besides chastise a god you don't believe in)?
GOD REFUSES TO STOP EARTHQUAKE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
GOD REFUSES TO STOP STOCK PLUNGE
GOD REFUSES TO STOP HURRICANE LEE'S FLOOD TOLL
GOD REFUSES TO STOP 10 OIL RIG WORKERS FROM GOING MISSING
GOD REFUSES TO STOP TEXAS FIRES
GOD REFUSES TO STOP CHARLIE SHEEN FROM LANDING MOVIE ROLL
@Sam: So if we don't believe in your sky daddy, we won't help the needy? How old are you?
So Sam seems to be putting me on the same level as a deity! I guess I'm flattered.
I do thank you for challenging me to do more, I think i will certainly fail to achieve the same level of power as your diety claims to have though. I have exceeded by more than double my tax deductible charitible donation limit every year for as far as i can remember. I think my biggest impact is a determination from a food production point of view to eat very very little beef even though i love it. For 2 years now i've had only a handfull of beef meals per year. Cows actually take a huge amount of food resources to produce small amount of food. Limiting beef meals allows more and cheaper global food supply. I believe i'm making a positive contribution with those efforts.
People who do not believe are just plain STUPID. God protected those people's homes as they were all believers. The atheist need to get a life, and I am so tired of them trying to push their crap onto everyone else. When God does return, he will only take those of us who do believe.
Maybe all of you who do believe could somewhere and wait quietly?
So the non stamp collectors are pushing their albums down your collection? Wow, I really do he/she/it comes early and take you to your "paradise". I prefer to live in the planet of reason. Good day!
jo
I believe that is what hell would really be. Spending eternity with those as ignorant as you.
Why is everyone so mean that you won't let these people just have this? Why do you care if they believe their statute of the Virgin saved their home? You knew what the article was about before you even read it. Why actually take the time to be so ugly?
I don't care if the family believes it! What the heck is CNN doing publishing it. If they want to be a reputable news organization they may want to skip crap like this next time.
...because their ignorance drummed into them from birth glorifies an extremely violent book and gives them reason to sit on childish beliefs their entire lives without seeking true meaning or exploring the vast beauty the universe has to offer when you discard the junk description form uneducated power hungry politicians that lived before the first telescope was peered through.
Simple, Robert. Because people who believe this BS historically have been trying to influence public policy so the rest of us have to live by your "godly" rules which we find disgusting and backward. We would not make -as much- fun of you if you just worshiped quietly.
I say put the statue to the test. Move it from fire to fire and see how many others it stops.
Johnny, no, no...God has a reason why just this family. There is a "purpose". LOL!
How incredibly stupid. A statue had nothing to do with it. This devine intervention crap has got to stop.
"The family tells CNN affiliate KTRK they believe the statue helped saved their home." You ever notice how the faithful never say they are blessed when they survive a tragedy where others died or got injured? Only when everyone survives an accident you hear "oh, we were blessed. God protected us...bla bla blah. Wake up people. It is the 21st century. Leave your faith/delusion as others did with Zeus and Krishna. Now, stop wasting your time at the church and do something constructive. Example: Help the needy without the feeling that you will be rewarded in a "later" life. Peace yo!
Truth be told the house had a box of spaghetti inside. His Noodliness is the true savior of the house and even respectfully saved their little yard trinket as well. Ramen!
You win! How many houses with godly crap burned down?
Exactly, I bet every single house that is still standing has a box of spaghetti inside. Of course those that did burn with spaghetti inside clearly had some false form of pasta, like wheat based or something His Noodliness did not approve of. The logic is quite simple really.
I had a fire once in my back-yard and it stopped just before my garbage can which had a condom and a book on Scientology in it. I know it was a message.
Yeah, a message from your psychiatrist.
Aah, the usual pickin and choosin by the faithful who otherwise reference the bible for their imperfection. Yawn!
with the name "frankie" I can already tell your a moron
With a name like "Pau"l, I can already tell you are a disciple/sheep who believes in a big daddy in the sky, can't think for yourself, and a first class moron. Next idiot, please!
As I understand it at least 1500 homes have been lost. If this one was saved, that would be a 0.06% success rate. That is not much to hang your halo on.
@JPR: What? And I always hear that prayer works. At this rate, we need to manufacture another god that has better stats!
yeah that's some pretty aweful stats. I think the fireman saved at least 10%. So a couple hundred firemen are actually more powerful than the creator of the universe! Way to Go Firemen!
Does the statue double as a sprinkler?
No, but a do prefer the concrete goose, as cheesy as it is. At least people dress the damn thing differently on occasions.
I'm absolutely sure the statue stopped the fire, it just makes SENSE! Just don't think about it too hard and you'll understand. Although I'm not quite sure why other religious items didn't stop the fire from burning other victims' houses since, statistically speaking in the context of texas, there had to be more statues. God works in mysterious ways, doesn't he?
stupid babble coming from an idiot... all the time when athiest raid the board LOL.
lolz
Ahhhh its so refreshing to hear from all the future residents of Hell ... Errrr what exactly is the passage in the Bible that says we all have to be perfect??? Or did you Airheads just assume that it does?? Look Stupid ... Jesus Christ lived ... even the Romans said so ... Christ's point was to follow the word and if you failed ... so long as you believed ... you would be saved!
Who was it who said "I'd rather believe and be wrong than to not belive and be wrong".
I believe.... I believe your wrong. 🙂
pascal
"I would rather live as if there is a God than die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and die to find out there is." -Albert Camus
Correction: "I would rather live as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Sounds like you are committing the sin of pride. See you in Hell.
Billy Bob <~ with the name Billy Bob nobody cares what you think of religion. Brain power waved goodbye to you long ago when you lost your teeth
Cavy from VA
What Roman are you refering to?
Christ was basicaly an early version of Spiderman, made up to entertain children.
Thank you, Jesus. My faith has been restored... in the basic stupidy of religious people.
agreed!
LOL... I love it... The world gets worse, more corrupt, and idiots like you come out saying "god is not real". Yeah, because you scientifically proved this. hate to tell ya but a study was done and the smarter americans were more religious then the dumber ones 🙂 where do you fall in this?
Just curious....where was Mary while the other 36,000 acres burned, destroying the other 1499 homes? People, please grow up! We're on our own here.
Isn't it obvious by the picture? Mary was in front of the house that was saved. If you don't have faith, then you will be the one on your own.
I had a slice of pizza once that looked like the virgin mary....it was either her or the centerfold in Heff's mag. I bit the head off. Yum.
Are you sure it wasn't something phalic that you bit the head off of?
Either way, it was really just pizza :)=
So were all the other homes occupied by "evil" atheists with no souls? I guess god didn't see fit to save them. Don't thank the firefighters who risk their lives everyday to protect your little house on the prairie. Thank your little garden gnome. Ridiculous and I really wish CNN wouldn't feed such delusions.
Agreed, this is the type of garbage story that feeds into the fanaticism of religion. The argument from evil is a fairly week one, but there is so much death and destruction from natural disasters on a daily basis, it almost sickens me that these people think THEY are special enough, because of a physical religious icon, to have been spared by the fire. I'm very happy their house was not destroyed, but people really need to take these things at face value instead of assigning them to the realms of divine intervention.
Praise Jebus!