guess Who's a tagger...

You may have missed it, but God has sent another miracle to you slackers out there. This time, it's the old "Oil on an icon" ploy, always a crowd-pleaser. You can read the Associated Press's article on it here. Now I know what some of you cynics out there are saying - that this is one weird-a$$ way for God to communicate. Heck if some skateboarding vandal had done this, he'd be sitting in an Israeli jail now. So to help those of you weak-in-the-faith (you know who you are), here's proof that God did this, and a couple of messages He (She?) gave to his favored followers.

Proof that it was God.

"This is a miracle," said Aida Abu Edam, a longtime church member. She knows because the oil has a strange smell. "It's a special, holy smell. It's not ordinary, like olive oil. It's something strange that comes from God." How can you argue with that?

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What the message is - Part One.

"People these days, they've forgot God and this is a sign to tell them, 'I'm still here.'" Thus saith Edith Fanous, 31, who's been going to this church since she was a little girl.

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What the message is - Part Two.

"There's war and discrimination. I see a lot of discrimination against Arabs here in Israel, and maybe this is a good lesson for everybody to love each other and live with each other with equal rights," said Kosty Tannous, 33, an Israeli customs worker. No word on whether he's a regular church-goer there as well.

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Personally, I find it a funny way for God to tell you He's still around. Who knew He'd become a tagger? The two "messages" are quite contradictory, so feel free to make up your own Divinely-inspired interpretation. And if the Spirit moves you (alveit, hopefully not by having you yammer away in tongues), feel free to leave The Message as a comment here.