Jesus Shrine
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October
This is Tamara’s (from Get Out Hudson) submission for last month’s Hoboken411 Yankees ticket giveaway! She digs the way the flowers spice up the neighborhood near this shrine on Jackson Street.
Jesus Shrine
Photo of the elaborate shine found on Jackson Street near the projects on the backside of Hoboken. The colorful flowers definitely stands out near the bleak surroundings. A few years ago it was the site of the Jesus statue that had supposedly blinked and cried, which brought many to the area to witness the “miracle.”
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October 14th 2007 - 12:29:18 |
Also, there’s a saint for just about literally everything. The way I see it, when people pray, make offerings and light candles to these saints to make sometimes the most trivial thing come true, it’s no different than the pagans doing the same to their gods and goddesses.
Though, I do like the wacky kitsch of it all.
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October 14th 2007 - 21:33:37 |
I Love the Jesus Eye shrine, it’s beautiful and this neighborhood is ridiculousely harmless. You ( #8, #11, #12 and #17) are just showing how ignorant and lame-ass you really, really are.
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October 14th 2007 - 22:21:35 |
MauMau wrote:
Dunno about paganism but ascribing god-like attributes (hearing, understanding, and acting upon the prayers from thousands of people at once in languages which didn’t exist when the saint in question did) to long-dead people strikes me more as polytheism.
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October 14th 2007 - 22:45:40 |
Not a theological expert but I believe people who pray to saints do it with the understanding that the saint, or dead loved one, will be a messenger of their prayer to their God.
BTW if I’m totally 100% wrong that’s fine. I really don’t want to get in an argument over this.
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October 15th 2007 - 08:20:08 |
Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball.
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October 15th 2007 - 09:33:23 |
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster – all you non believers are doomed to an eternity in blood boiling hell. I will be setting up a shrine in the next week or so.
Praise be to the Pirates, for only they will inherit the earth.
btw – is that a real picture of Jesus?
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October 15th 2007 - 10:10:37 |
safetydans wrote:
It is pretty harmful, have you ever considered how all the Jews living in the projects feel. They killed him one before, they may do it again.
I actually stop by on my way home and give him a 40 oz of O.E. and some spare rib tips. He loves beer and ribs.
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October 15th 2007 - 10:10:45 |
Jay wrote:
Yes, it was taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ6S 7.2-Megapixel Digital Camera (DMC-LZ6S)
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October 15th 2007 - 10:56:34 |
Katie_Scarlett wrote:
If ever people want proof of miracles, then they should go to the shrine and look at that picture……..don’t kid yourself with blinking virgins or bleeding statues, this is the real deal – a 2000 year old picture of JC.
(I presume that the 2000 years since it was taken has dulled the quality of the photo some what – historically a man from that region would have been dark skinned with dark hair rather than an aryan looking white hippy?).
Pastafarians unite.
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October 15th 2007 - 11:30:09 |
I remember when Rerun wanted to worship a head of lettuce.
Jesus—lettuce. same thing to me
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October 15th 2007 - 12:13:58 |
ericsquare wrote:
What about Allah Peanutbutter Sandwiches? Very marketable.
Wilson, where’s Wilson – god damn volleyball idol.
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October 15th 2007 - 12:30:42 |
Where there is worshipping, tithing can’t be far behind. Perhaps this is how the town could solve the budget crisis. For every visit to the weeping statue make checks payable to….
Wouldn’t it be great if Jesus ends up solving the towns fiscal woes?
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October 15th 2007 - 13:00:14 |
FAP wrote:
Boy that seems like a distinction without much of a difference. Honestly, the way many of the latin Roman Catholics in particular approach christianity (pretty much god-like reverence for Mary for example) certainly resembles pagan and polytheistic relgions unless you want to put stock in the theologicaly academic hair splitting. Don’t get me started on the worshiping of bones, etc.
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October 15th 2007 - 13:44:49 |
A cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father wants you to telepathically acknowledge him as your master so that he can remove an evil force from your soul that was put there when a talking snake convinced a rib-woman to eat the fruit of a magical tree.
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October 15th 2007 - 13:50:43 |
Jay wrote:
That’s about the size of it. Least anyone think I am guilty of Christianity-bashing, all religions can be made to appear this silly quite easily….because all religions are silly; Judaism and Islam certainly among these.
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October 15th 2007 - 14:00:51 |
hopefully his baby jesus powers can help heal.
Shake and Bake.
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