[P-Marlowe]

Are people expecting the statue to answer their prayers?

Some people get all excited about statues bleeding.

If a statue can bleed, then why can't it answer your prayers?

If you pray to a wafer of bread can the wafer of bread answer your prayers?

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

>>Are people expecting the statue to answer their prayers?

Some people get all excited about statues bleeding.

If a statue can bleed, then why can't it answer your prayers?

If you pray to a wafer of bread can the wafer of bread answer your prayers?

Again, you are confusing the physical with the spiritual. If an evangelist is watching TV and the preacher says pray with me, is he then praying to the TV?

Of course not.

It is just as silly to say these people are praying to a wafer. Ridiculous!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

If you pray to a wafer of bread can the wafer of bread answer your prayers?

"And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" -- Isaiah 44:19-20