An Easy Mistake

[sunny-dave]

... I did think of posting this in R&S - but I haven't got my flak jacket on today ...

http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/05/great-grandma-accidentally-prays-to-lord-of-the-rings-figurine-for-years-6362936/?ito=facebook

[ummmm]

Bless her but it's funny...

[wolf63]

It's nice, don't know what the problem is. They are both figments of somebodies imagination.

I have a big Virgin Mary statue in my living room, she has a baseball cap on.

A proud atheist. x

[bookbinder]

That just shows the pointlessness of religion. Fancy, praying to a plaster cast!

[Smowball]

Oh blimey lol!

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely story but we all know prayers get forwarded if they go the wrong address.

[woofgang]

I am sure that god thought it was funny too.

[sunny-dave]

Well he is the patron saint of lost things ...

[woofgang]

depends which one...there are at least two
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantony

[Eleena]

Aww lol ;0)

[-Talbot-]

Yes because praying to a figure of Elrond, an elf from The Lord of the Rings makes no sense, whereas praying to a figurine of Saint Anthony make absolute perfect sense.

[Cloverjo]

I wonder if at any time she thought, "Well, what's going on? Why isn't he answering my prayers?"

[Eleena]

A Great grandmother Talbot, a different generation.

[donny48]

Whilst being a non-believer I can see the point of using an image to focus a prayer, if she thought it a saint then it performed that function for her.

[Eleena]

^ Quite donny.

[Tilly2]

I suppose she just got into the hobbit.

[ummmm]

I totally agree, Donny.

[EDDIE51]

The kindest thing to do would be to have left her to it and said nothing.

[Eleena]

True Eddie, or just replaced it.

[DTCwordfan]

well I suppose there is a correlation if the 'Return of the King' is about the ressurection?

[jno]

that's the thing about Christianity, images like this are purely representational - reminders, so to speak. Pagan religions often fetishise the object itself - that is, it is actually the god, not merely an image. So from a Christian point of view, no problem here.