Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Private for Raj Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 20:02:31 -0600 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <41902537.207@yahoo.com> References: <1099507564.292484.79620@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2uuj22F2dv4skU2@uni-berlin.de> <2uujetF2fcp7aU2@uni-berlin.de> <2v062nF2h2lumU8@uni-berlin.de> <6PTid.18276$6q2.13705@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> <1099845266.298938.301220@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <418EDF82.5030905@yahoo.com> <73fde4f0.0411081504.29036b1f@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 4U7MRXwiq1ntFADmDipOSgzWv8JpuQIZwmpzJ+LC8cNaibqoRx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:21595 Brett Robson wrote: > > > John W. wrote: > >> >> I remember once in some catholic church or other seeing a lady kissing >> a holy relic. All I could think of was the germs she was willing >> consuming.... >> > > When I see stuff like that all I can think of is the Golden Calf. > I think the Golden Calf is a stab at Hindus. But seriously, how would Jesus, Moses, etc. like to see everyone flocking around and praying in front of a statue of Mary simply because some moisture condensed around the eyes? John W.