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A CYNICAL LOOK AT THE DAILY GRIND

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

PIOUS PLACENTA?

Now, this gives new meaning to born-again.



A Union Beach, N.J., woman claims her 18-year-old daughter's fetal sonogram appears to have the image of Jesus on it.

When Lorraine Olsen's daughter, Sarah, had a sonogram recently, mother and daughter were amazed that the print out showed what they say is a "bearded Jesus" with "raised arms" as if blessing the crowd at Sermon on the Mount. The uncanny Shroud of Turin-like image also is wearing a "crown of thorns" and dressed in a plain "white robe."

We've all read about Mary Magdalene's image appearing on a piece of toast and Jesus' in the wood grain of a bathroom door.

And, while perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena are not uncommon, what was strange was the staffer, who put out Olsen's message to the Asbury Park Press newsroom, has a last name of ... and get this ... Priest.

You can't make this stuff up.

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