If you want to know how religions get started, here is a prime example.

People believing and worshipping a bunch of spittle-bug goo, believing it's a holy token.

I can imagine a caveman seeing an eclipse and the next day he has a good hunt and he attributes it to the eclipse and then he starts making sacrifices and promises to the sun or the moon in order to have another good hunt.

The God these people believe in is omnipotent. He could spell out "I'm Here" by moving the clouds around or dropping a bunch of asteroids in the desert like a giant dot matrix. It's hard to imagine that they really believe he's going to play Pictionary with a burnt taco or a rusty Camaro?

Should these people really be believing in "false idols" too? Isn't that a sin of some sort?

Now ^THAT^ is the kind of comment I love to see following one of my posts!

You make a great point, dolly. I just love when someone finds an image of the virgin Mary in their toast. I saw an image of a giraffe once in ketchup left on my plate; doesn't mean I'm going to worship the ungulates or sell the plate on ebay. I just said "hey, cool - looks like a camel" and went on with my life.

Therefore: "Hey, cool - this tree drips bug spit" and move along, people.

It's amazing what people grasp at. Especially sad for those, like the mother who brought her wheelchair bound son to be "healed" by the tree.

it's silly what people believe sometimes. i can't help but notice her kid is named jesus. if god won't automatically grant a mulligan to a kid named jesus then i fail to see how bug spit is gonna help.

You should write for family guy.

sence when do girraffes look like camels

lol, thanks! if Seth MacFarlane needs another writer let him know i'm available. ;)

Caught that, good one... I really wanted it to be a camel just because I know more about them. Guess I could've just said it was a camel in the ketchup - not like anyone is going to ask for proof.

I'd probably join up to a religion which held this sentence as one of it's main dogmata.