The Legendary “Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese” Sold on eBay for $28,000
Sep 18, 2026
Ahh fucking shysters in the community, charging $730 for an oil change and an oil pan gasket redo, then going to church, man, and they believe in that fucking Rapture. These people with one degree of separation, with adults with cancers, homeless nieces, drunk sons, offspring of offspring with a million combinations of developmental disabilities, the lot of them, waiting and predicting the Rapture.
Jesus demonstrated control over the elements, the harvest, and physical objects. Key accounts include:
- Turning water into wine at Cana
- Calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee
- Feeding the 5,000 and the feeding of the 4,000
- Walking on water and finding a coin in a fish’s mouth
- Reference sources provide complete details and additional events such as miraculous catches of fish and withering the fig tree.
🩹 Miracles of Healing
Numerous individuals were healed of physical ailments, disabilities, and chronic conditions, often instantaneously or from a distance:
- Healing the royal official’s son and the Centurion’s paralyzed servant
- Cleansing lepers and healing the paralyzed, blind, and mute
- Restoring a servant’s severed ear during his arrest
- Reference sources detail over a dozen distinct healing accounts including those at the Pool of Bethesda and Siloam.
👹 Authority Over Evil Spirits (Exorcisms)
Jesus cast out demons and unclean spirits, restoring afflicted individuals to health and clarity:
- Driving an unclean spirit out of a man in the Capernaum synagogue
- Curing the Gerasene demoniacs, sending the spirits into a herd of pigs
- Healing the Syrophoenician woman’s daughter from afar
- Reference sources list further deliverances from mute, blind, and seizure-inducing afflictions.
🌅 Resurrection of the Dead
The Gospels record instances where Jesus restored life to the deceased:
- Raising a widow’s son in Nain
- Raising the daughter of Jairus
- Raising Lazarus after four days in the tomb
JEWS, man:
Fucking JEWS: Prof. Richard Wolff discusses why the failed war against Iran and the deepening economic problems of the U.S. contribute to a coming U.S.-Israel divorce.
ASHIRA DARWISH — YOUR GOOD CONSCIENCE COSTS US OUR LIVES
Why does it take an Israeli or Western voice for Palestinians to be heard? Can we claim to stand in solidarity with people while refusing to listen to their anger?
In this episode of The Modern Elephant, Alexis Poulin and Félix Marquardt welcome Ashira Darwish, a Palestinian journalist, founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, and a central participant in the documentary Where Olive Trees Weep, which also features Gabor Maté.
From the standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival to Western newsrooms, Ashira challenges a hierarchy of credibility: Palestinians have been telling their stories for decades, yet their testimony still needs someone else’s stamp of approval. She questions a form of solidarity that celebrates its own heroes while asking Palestinians to keep their anger in check.
She reflects on her own experience, recounts a disagreement with Gabor Maté, and examines the contradictions she sees among some Israelis who identify as anti-Zionist. She also challenges the idea that Netanyahu alone is responsible, leaving the system that made these atrocities possible beyond scrutiny.
The conversation then turns to colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, and her approach to healing: rebuilding community, reconnecting with collective memory, and reclaiming the right to speak. For Ashira, personal recovery cannot be separated from the political and social conditions that shape suffering.
A conversation about what our clear conscience allows us to ignore — and the price others pay for it.
• Palestinian voices and the Western media.
• Venice Film Festival: who gets applauded, and why?
• Gabor Maté, solidarity, and the right to speak for yourself.
• Beyond Netanyahu: changing leaders without changing the system.
• Colonialism, dehumanization, and intergenerational trauma.
• The right to be angry — including with your allies.
• Collective healing, spirituality, and rebuilding connection.
Fucking people are dying and being starved and bombed and genocided, but we got this fucking story for a few cunt days in the WEST:
Really?
The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements.
The incident has ignited widespread outrage, blown up in the Israel Lobby’s face, caused all of his supporting artists to quit in protest, and brought worldwide attention to both Israel’s crimes and its attempts to silence dissent across the world.
But who is Robert Kraft? MintPress exposes the American oligarch’s funding of the pro-Israel Lobby, the network of organizations he has built to shut down pro-Palestine activism, and his extremely close personal, political, and financial relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself.
Netanyahu’s Right-Hand Man
“Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft,” Benjamin Netanyahu stated at the 2019 Genesis Prizes, an Israeli government-backed ceremony that honors prominent individuals (such as Kraft) who have advanced Jewish or Israeli interests with a $1 million prize.
Netanyahu is right. The 85-year-old American businessman and owner of the New England Patriots NFL franchise has dedicated his entire life to advancing the Zionist cause. Kraft married his wife in Israel in 1962 and has made well over 100 trips to the country since, including leading dozens of P.R. missions there, bringing a host of celebrities and sports stars with him.
Kraft not only maintains a close personal friendship with Netanyahu, he very likely funded his political rise. His name appears on the “Netanyahu’s Millionaires” document – a leaked, handwritten list penned by the prime minister himself, detailing his wealthiest patrons and those he could most steadfastly rely on to bankroll his political career. Ninety-eight percent of Netanyahu’s funding came from abroad.
Really, one fucking cunt, Kraft?
Key Statistics on End-Times and Rapture Beliefs
- General Belief: A LifeWay Research survey found that 36% of Americans believe in the Rapture as depicted in popular “Left Behind” style theology. A YouGov poll reported that 46% of U.S. adults believe they would personally ascend to heaven if a biblical Rapture occurred.
- End-Times Views: Data from the Pew Research Center shows that roughly 39% of all U.S. adults believe humanity is currently living in the “end times”.
- Demographic Differences: Belief is higher among Republicans (63%) compared to Democrats (40%) and independents (36%). It is also more common in the American South (48%) than in other regions.
- Religious Breakdown: White evangelical Protestants and Black Protestants report the highest adherence to end-times and return-of-Christ prophecies, ranging from 50% to over 75% depending on specific survey phrasing, whereas mainline Protestants and Catholics are significantly less likely to hold literal or premillennial views.
Based on an active-duty military force of roughly 1.3 million service members, this percentage translates to approximately 910,000 Christian service members across all branches of the armed forces.
The Uniformed Mercenaries, the paid-for soldiers of fortune they are the second coming of the holy trinity:
A federal immigration court in Chicago held the fourth and final removal hearing on the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Palestinian American human rights activist Salah Sarsour on Monday, September 14. Sarsour himself has argued the case is a major test of the First Amendment under President Donald Trump’s authoritarian crackdown on immigrants and dissent.
One of multiple advocates for Palestine liberation who were doxxed by Zionist groups and targeted by the Trump administration amid mass protests against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, Sarsour has been a lawful permanent resident for 32 years and lives with his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More than a dozen federal agents arrested Sarsour as he left his home on March 30. The case continues to make headlines in Wisconsin, where Sarsour is the president of the state’s largest mosque.
“In a brazen assault on the First Amendment and an affront to the Constitution, I believe I was targeted, arrested, and detained by the Trump administration for speaking out against the ongoing atrocities Israel is committing, just as I and so many others believe that Mahmoud Khalil, Sami Hamdi, Yaacub Ira [Vijandre], Leqaa Kordia and others were before me,” Sarsour wrote in an op-ed for USA Today on July 20.
The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque says he is being targeted for speaking out about Palestine. He has been a lawful permanent resident for 32 years and lives with his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
R & D of your fucking god!
Poverty is associated with an estimated 183,000 deaths annually in the United States for a single year of poverty, and roughly 295,000 annual deaths for cumulative long-term poverty lasting 10 or more years.
We Will Not Forget’
Palestinian factions, popular committees and civil institutions in Shatila called on residents to gather inside the refugee camp on Wednesday to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
“We will not forget and we will not forgive. Their names will remain in our memory,” organizers wrote in a flyer announcing the gathering.
“Let us gather on this painful anniversary, and renew our commitment to pursue the Palestinian cause in our hearts and in our conscience,” the flyer added.
Palestinian factions, popular committees and civil society organizations were expected to participate in the commemoration at the camp where thousands of Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians were massacred in September 1982.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas described Sabra and Shatila as “one of the most heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation and its agents against the Palestinian people.”
The movement pledged to continue efforts to pursue those responsible for massacres and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement also said the failure to hold the perpetrators accountable had consequences extending far beyond 1982.
The “world’s silence and failure” to prosecute those responsible, despite extensive evidence and documented testimonies, had encouraged “the emergence of new criminals within the occupying entity today,” the movement said.
- Child Mortality: Around 45% of deaths in children under five years old are linked to undernutrition and poverty-related factors.
- Vulnerable Populations: Organizations estimate that tens of thousands of children die globally every day due to conditions tied to extreme poverty, lack of shelter, and poor sanitation.
- Underlying Drivers: Global deaths are heavily tied to secondary effects of poverty like unsafe drinking water, inadequate healthcare access, and lack of basic immunizations.
In addition to those living in extreme poverty, about 26% of the global population, or about 1.3 billion people, live in moderate poverty. Moderate poverty is defined as living on between $1.90 and $3.20 per day.
Poverty disproportionately affects children, with about half of the world’s poor being children under the age of 18. Poverty has serious consequences for children’s health, education, and overall well-being. It can also have intergenerational impacts, as children who grow up in poverty are more likely to experience poverty as adults.
- The Miracle of the Holy Fire: During Easter at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a flame appears inside a closed tomb. Medieval critics and historians explained that historical descriptions used hidden pots and oil-soaked chains to ignite the Patriarch’s candles.
- Weeping Statues (Sicily, 1953): A statue of the Virgin Mary reportedly shed tears. Investigators later showed that the porous plaster material simply absorbed and leaked moisture through cracks in its glazed surface.
- The Sun Miracle of Fatima (Portugal, 1917): Tens of thousands of people reported that the sun danced or zigzagged in the sky. Scientists suggest the crowd witnessed an atmospheric “sundog,” caused by sunlight refracting through high ice crystals in the air.
- Leaking Jesus Statue (Mumbai, 2011): Droplets of water forming near the feet of a crucifix drew crowds looking for a miracle. Plumbers and municipal workers traced the moisture to a nearby leaking wall and a broken sewer pipe.
SURE: Unending fucking religious dogma BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou become thither.
Paraphrased, it would read,
“Hurry up, escape for your life, because I cannot destroy these cities until you get out.”
These words were spoken to Lot, who was carnal and worldly.
The Church and the Jews, 3: What Is “Authentic Judaism”?
By Thomas V. Mirus ( bio – articles – email ) | Sep 01, 2025
This is the third installment of a four-part essay. (Read Part 2)
What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord. …Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load. When you spread out your hands, I will close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen.—Isaiah 1:11, 14-15
Robert George is right to point out, against certain misguided Catholics, that the coming of Christ did not reduce Judaism to the status of being merely one of the many false religions. This is because Judaism is rooted in revelations and practices that were divinely revealed and commanded, and there is some level of material continuity between Judaism today and the religion of the ancestors of Christ (yet there is a spiritual rupture, as we shall see).
However, as I wrote in Part 1, George “confuses the particular love we owe to the Jewish people, and God’s abiding call for them to find the fulfillment of their covenants in Christ, with his unqualified claim that the Church requires us to affirm the validity of ‘Judaism’ as a post-Christian religious system.”
George writes:
Catholic teaching leaves no room for the denial of Judaism’s continued validity and significance and its special role in God’s plan for the world. The purpose for which God chose the Jewish people and their mission in fulfilling that purpose continue today: Jewish fidelity, witness, and wisdom enlighten. They light the path to God.
The basis of Judaism in divine revelation, and the continuing providential role of the Jewish people, are indeed reasons why Christendom traditionally tolerated Jewish worship, unlike that of outright false religions. However, this providential role does not imply that true fidelity to God is found in continued observance of the Old Law after the institution of the New. It is instead related to the former prophetic meaning of the rites. As St. Thomas Aquinas wrote:
From the fact that the Jews observe their rites, which, of old, foreshadowed the truth of the faith which we hold, there follows this good—that our very enemies bear witness to our faith, and that our faith is represented in a figure, so to speak. For this reason they are tolerated in the observance of their rites. (ST II-II, q. 10, a. 11)
While we cannot deny the connection between Judaism and the religion of the Old Testament, George goes too far in simply identifying the two, and in claiming that the Church requires us to give unqualified affirmation of the “validity” and “legitimacy” of “Jewish practice” or, as he put it in another article, “living Judaism.” Nostra Aetate prescribes our attitude toward the Jewish people, not toward Rabbinic Judaism.
Compare George’s unsubstantiated claim that Church authority condemns “all efforts…to delegitimize, dishonor, or vilify Jewish faith and practice” with the teaching of the Ecumenical Council of Florence in 1441:
The Holy Roman Church… firmly believes, professes and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic law… after our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; …after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, the holy Roman Church declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation.
It has been the constant teaching of the Fathers, Doctors, and Magisterium of the Church that the Old Law was replaced by the New, and that the observance of the old ceremonial and juridical precepts is no longer pleasing to God—indeed quite the opposite, with St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the above-cited Council teaching that these precepts are now “both dead and deadly.” In modern times, Pope Pius XII reiterated this teaching: “On the Cross then the Old Law died, soon to be buried and to be a bearer of death” (Mystici Corporis 30).
Therefore likewise, George’s demand that Catholics reject so-called “supersessionism” is far too crude and simplistic to pass for Catholic theology. Pope St. John Paul II wrote in Redemptoris Mater that with the coming of the Son of God, “the period marked by the promise made to Abraham and by the Law mediated by Moses has now reached its climax, in the sense that Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes the old law.” Pius XII taught the same in Mystici Corporis 29-30:
On the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees, fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross, establishing the New Testament in His blood shed for the whole human race. “To such an extent, then,” says St. Leo the Great, speaking of the Cross of our Lord, “was there effected a transfer from the Law to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church, from the many sacrifices to one Victim, that, as Our Lord expired, that mystical veil which shut off the innermost part of the temple and its sacred secret was rent violently from top to bottom.”
What is “authentic Judaism”?
The question of what Rabbinic Judaism is and the extent to which it is a different religious system from that of our Hebrew fathers in faith is a complex one. Here I emphasize points of discontinuity in order to correct the errors I am responding to, but I do not pretend to do full justice to the topic. For further perspective, I recommend Gideon Lazar’s recent article, “Jesus is THE Faithful Jew.”
Robert George writes:
The increasingly common internet slanders that true Judaism “no longer exists” or is no longer authentically practiced — whether because of the Second Temple’s destruction at the hands of the Romans in a.d. 70, because of various developments in contemporary Jewish religious practice, or any other theory that is alleged — are simply incompatible with Catholic teaching on the validity and legitimacy of God’s enduring covenant with his chosen people.
This striking lapse of reason can only stem from the false assumption critiqued by Pope Benedict, which conflates God’s fidelity to Israel with Israel’s fidelity to God. God’s enduring promise simply has no bearing on the question of whether Jews today are practicing the Old Testament religion authentically.
One can hardly fail to notice that time after time in the Old Testament, God sent prophets to tell the Israelites they were not practicing their faith authentically. Did God thereby contradict His own enduring covenant? If Israel could be unfaithful to the Old Law even before it had been fulfilled by the New, then how much more will their practice be judged “inauthentic” to God’s covenant now that it has been fulfilled and can be practiced authentically only in Christ?
And which practice today is authentic? Reformed? Orthodox? Hasidic? George favors Orthodox Judaism as the most authentic, but if non-Orthodox Jewish practice is less authentic, does that mean God has been faithful to His covenant with some Jews and not with others?
George’s logic ultimately implies that the Jews do not need to accept Christ to be faithful to their covenant. But there is only one authentically Israelite institution today: the Catholic Church.
Judaism vs. the Old Testament religion
George treats Rabbinic Judaism as completely continuous with the Old Testament religion: “There was neither a schism nor an additional piece of claimed revelation that led to the existence of the Jewish religion.” But of course there was a schism, between the Jews who accepted Jesus as Messiah and those who denied Him. There was a schism between the new spiritual Israel and Israel of the flesh. This schism was foreshadowed in the Old Testament and foretold by Jesus in parable after parable.
George thinks he can safely maintain his position by appealing only to post-Vatican-II popes. But even they do not agree with him.
In the very first paragraph of the essay George cites, Benedict XVI denied this equation: “For ‘Judaism’ in the strict sense does not mean the Old Testament, which is essentially common to Jews and Christians. In fact, there are two responses in history to the destruction of the temple and the new radical exile of Israel: Judaism and Christianity.”
Pope St. John Paul II, in his book Crossing the Threshold of Hope (ch. 6), went even further, characterizing the Synagogue as a reaction against the Incarnation: “Man was no longer able to tolerate such closeness [to God], and thus the protests began. This great protest has precise names—first it is called the Synagogue, and then Islam. Neither can accept a God who is so human.”
In reality, Temple Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism are at least as different from one another as Catholicism and Protestantism. Just as Protestants have come up with novel, alternate forms of worship because of their rejection of the Mass, Rabbinic Judaism had to cope with its inability to enact the sacrifices of either the Mosaic Law or the Law of Love.
The Jews contemporary with the Apostolic Fathers could not continue the sacrifices of the Old Law, since the Temple had been destroyed soon after Christ’s resurrection. But neither were they willing to accept Jesus as the new Temple and definitive Sacrifice fulfilling the old covenants. Thus the practice of modern Judaism is not merely continuing what their ancestors had done as though the Messiah had never come, though to be sure this would be bad enough—it is rooted historically (not necessarily in the heart of every Jew today) in the prideful refusal of the 1st-and 2nd-century rabbis to receive the New Covenant.
If this claim seems like bigotry, consider that in terms of time and succession, these rabbis were to the Pharisees who persecuted Christ as their contemporaries, the Apostolic Fathers, were to the Apostles still in living memory. Just as the liturgy of the early Church developed from the Sacrifice of Christ and His instructions at the Last Supper, so the ceremonial and legal elaborations of Rabbinic Judaism represented in many ways a doubling-down on those man-made burdens of the Pharisees which Christ condemned, and for which they condemned Him.
When Julian the Apostate attempted to rebuild the Temple in order to support every religion that opposed the Church, fire miraculously came out of the ground and destroyed the construction works, as though God were definitively underlining what had He had already decreed by the rending of the temple veil: this religion is now defunct. For while the Jews cannot follow the spirit of the Law without Christ, without the Temple they cannot even follow the letter. So God scattered the proud in their conceit.
That the Temple has not been rebuilt in two thousand years is a clear sign to the Jewish people that something has changed. The failure of so many Jews to consider the meaning of this is a quintessential illustration of the “stiff-necked” appellation which the Holy Spirit places on them in Scripture.
But this is a truly terrible trap to have fallen into, calling for compassion rather than judgment. And just as, following Vatican II, we do not impute the sin of heresy to everyone who is raised Protestant 500 years after Martin Luther, neither ought we impute the hardheartedness of the rabbis at the time of the early Church to every single Jew today.
We must love the Jews as our estranged brethren, still specially called by God. But should we have an exaggerated reverence for Jews, who are children of Abraham according to the flesh, such as we do not extend to Protestants, who have been baptized by water and the Spirit and have an even greater claim to be called our brethren? It will be a sign of real progress when Catholic apologists are seen to be as vigorous in their sparring with Jews as they are with Protestants.
There is, no doubt, a place for language more diplomatic than I have used above. But in order to be properly diplomatic, we must first acknowledge the facts; adjusting tone comes later.
Thomas V. Mirus is President of Trinity Communications and Editor-in-Chief for CatholicCulture.org, hosts both the Catholic Culture Podcast and Lives of the Popes, and co-hosts Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast. See full bio.
Key Figures in Genesis Pointing to a Pattern
Enoch (Genesis 5:24): Enoch walked with God and was “translated” or taken up directly to heaven without experiencing physical death. Many view Enoch as a direct type of the church being removed from the earth before judgment.
Noah (Genesis 7:7): Noah and his family were safely placed inside the ark before the floodwaters destroyed the unrighteous world. Proponents see the ark as a symbol of protection, rescuing believers through a period of trial, though some debate whether the ark represents the rapture or preservation through the tribulation.
Lot (Genesis 19:22): Angels rushed Lot and his family out of Sodom before fire and sulfur destroyed the city. The text notes that the angels could not act until Lot was safely out, illustrating the idea that divine judgment is withheld until the righteous are removed.
The concept of the rapture is not explicitly written in the Book of Genesis, but many theologians and prophecy teachers look to Genesis for types, shadows, and patterns that foreshadow a future rescue of believers.
While the detailed doctrine of the rapture comes from New Testament passages like 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, proponents argue that Genesis establishes a divine pattern: God consistently removes or shelters His righteous people before pouring out global or local judgment.
Paul Haeder, Author 