That fraud Angelik Caruana is back in business with a Christmas special
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January 6, 2015 at 3:27pm
Up on his Borg in-Nadur hilltop and surrounded by cracked obsessives and the deluded, Angelik Caruana received an apparition of the Christ child in a baby blanket, and then – being the lousy actor of retarded intelligence that he is – proceeded to kiss the blanket directly without leaving a baby-thickness space between his fat lips and the wool, as he would have done if he really could see a baby there.
And then we wonder why people went out in droves to vote for Taghna Lkoll.
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Holy poo.
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
And he is pregnant with Jesus’s twin brothers.
Taqax fl-assurdita’ u tghidx hmerijiet biex minghalik iddahhak.
Joseph says we are all French, Charles Magri, so shut up and enjoy.
I’ve always wondered why the authorities (?) have allowed this dubious shrine – cross and all – to be set up on Malta’s finest stretch of Bronze Age defensive walls.
Happy New Year, Daphne.
In the name of freedom, God forbid if the authorities intervene in such matters which are neither here nor there.
Such an obvious fraud I don’t know people fall for this chap.
Where is Giordano Bruno to expurgate this “cheap journalism synonymous with D.C.G”?
there are no Giordano Brunos to expurgate the only investigative journalist of our times. And there will be none. Freedom is supreme. We have to fight for it.
I watched the video because I was told that there are videos of this person with a psychiatrist on site. But in this particular mise en scène I was surprised to see a nun kissing the empty blanket at 6:32 besides a whole lot of other people, just like one can see a priest on TV with other similar cult cultivating persons.
This after blood and oil coming from statues belonging to this man were found to be a deception.
Caruana states that an angel took him to Medjugorje, pity he could not help the Vatican with its investigation of the sightings there. One would think that an angel would know the truth about these things.
”Phenomena and messages such as those alleged to occur at Borg in-Nadur are no longer to be announced and interpreted in the public fora, the Church said this evening.
It said in a statement that “in a spirit of discernment and evaluation of these alleged phenomena and messages, the authorities of the Church in Malta feel that the time is ripe to issue this directive”.” TOM 12.10.12
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121012/local/borg-in-nadur.440780
The ‘gift’ or ‘virtue’ of faith sounds better than deliberate self-delusion
So after watching that video, there was a decision to make: despair or read up on something.
I have just come across the curious case of McArthur Wheeler from the Pittsburgh-area and how when Professor Dunning was reading an “article about his case, a thought washed over him, an epiphany. If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.”
This led to the development of the Dunning-Kruger Effect which when applied to the ‘WHY’ of voting preferences is quite chilling especially when recalls how people were targeted with promises which never materialized. So I’m off to explore that for a while.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?_r=0
Bunch of loonies. I hope the Catholic Church isn’t stupid enough not to realise the damage being done here.
The Catholic Church has learned how to deal with these loonies. Trust me, there are heaps of them.
At a time when all the hypocrites – those who were only Christian when it was convenient – have stopped supporting, or even worse actually become super-anti-clerical, the loons, who have always been there, begin to stand out more.
The loons stay; religion is their medicine.
The non-loons are the few other people you will see in the pews. The Catholic Church walks a fine line between not calling these loons out so as not to disillusion the good, albeit misguided, followers which these self-proclaimed visionaries may have, whilst simultaneously not sanctioning things of this nature.
The Catholic Church rule, which prevents it from initiating an investigation until the visions have actually ended, essentially allows it to buy time and hope that people will see through the farce of their own accord.
I am really curious to see what happens with Medjugorje. I have always suspected there was something malign happening there.
When the apparition begins to eclipse and take on more importance than the faith that it is supposed to complement, it is really time to question not only its veracity but also whether it is a distraction or a case of ‘false prophets’, much talked about in the Bible.
Here’s the irony: Angelik’s claims are just as loony as the Catholic Church’s claims.
What’s the difference in terms of craziness between believing that the baby Jesus materialises in a blanket and believing that the real body and blood of the same Jesus materialises in a host wafer?
The Catholic Church simply has the advantage that it can tell its followers what to believe at a very young age, when their minds are still vulnerable to believing in whatever adults tell them, Father Christmas, Tooth Fairies, the lot. This is followed up and reinforced by years of catechism lessons, parents and ultimately the threat of eternal damnation, and in the end there are so many Catholics who believe the same thing that it doesn’t seem crazy to them at all.
If Angelik were to be allowed to preach to children at will and have what he says reinforced by their parents, then we’d have a whole lot more adults at Borg in-Nadur in a few years and it won’t seem so looky at all to the next generation. Needless to say, that would be a from of child abuse. So why is it any different with the Church?
Food for thought: how would the average 16 to 18-year-old react if they heard about Jesus and the Bible for the very first time at that age? They’d think it was nuts.
Don’t be an idiot. Fools rush in where devils fear to tread.
He was always a weirdo. We used to live on the same street when we were young.
It is so unprofessionally done. The Malta Tourism Authority should take the opportunity and publish the scene in brochures, to attract tourism. Angelik Caruana’s scene are similar to those of Medjagorge and Lourdes.
Just wait a few more months and a small church will be built on that hilltop, followed by a bar and restaurant. These mad people should be locked up.
Edgar, I hope not. This area is a prime archaeological site. A lot of damage has already been done by this charlatan who I had the misfortune of meeting in my professional life.
Guess the money under this government isn’t flowing. Any helping ploy will do.
I’m confused. If it was an apparition of baby Jesus, why wasn’t the blanket part of that apparition? In the sense, did everyone see a floating blanket?
And where did God get that blanket from?
Since it can be seen, it must be a physical not a metaphysical thing. So God must have stolen it from somewhere.
Someone must have been freezing on New Year’s Eve and wondering where their blanket was.
Seems like a prime candidate for Mount Carmel Hospital. Cannot the Archbishop’s Curia debunk this obviously retarded fraudster.
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2015/01/05/ritratt-zball-imbarazzanti-minn-xufier-ta-tal-linja/
Houston, we have a problem.
This guy again? Didn’t he stop fooling around long ago? What are the odds that he is invited to appear at Xarabank again?
Almost got away with it when he was born https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY2PTD-FrtU
Hopeless country.
Conniving little shit or absolute nutter?
I am sure it is the first description.
Both shoes fit well
Where are the Catholic Church authorities? Why are the media still covering such idiocies?
Is money collected during the event?
Who is accountable for such money, if so?
The Catholic Church cannot do anything about Angelik for two reasons:
First, because its dogmas are equally scientifically unsound. Religion is about believing, regardless of logic or science. One of the Catholic Church’s favourite quotes is ‘Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’ That’s carte blanche for, well, anything.
Secondly, the Catholic Church does not have a monopoly on Mary or Jesus. Hundreds of churches and cults from Jehovah’s Witnesses to the Mormons are based on the same characters. Angelik doesn’t claim to speak for the Roman Catholic Church. Mary ‘speaks to him’ directly, bypassing the Catholic Church entirely.
The media cover these events because they are public and they generate a lot of interest.
The collection of alms in many religious organisations is considered standard procedure so if any small change is collected by Angelik and his wife, this is far from extraordinary. The Catholic Church’s organisations are, as Kenneth Wain likes to remind us, not registered as NGOs despite getting money from l-Istrina, so the Curia is hardly the pinnacle of accountability.
You see, the problem with picking Angelik and his followers apart is that you would then have to pick all the others apart as well.
It can’t be done. It would be undemocratic, illegal and go against one of the most basic of human rights, freedom of worship.
I have no doubt in my mind that Angelik is either a fraud or mentally retarded. That said, I’m quite relaxed about the whole thing. There are probably worse ways to spend an evening than walking up a hill, praying and singing hymns.
I will obviously eat my words once he makes them all drink the Kool-Aid.
No, Matthew, the Catholic Church can do a lot. For a start, it can rap those members of the clergy and religious orders who act as ‘chaplains’ and hangers-on to this Angelik fellow. There’s a couple of them at least.
Quoting Kenneth Wain doesn’t help.
If the Curia were to put its foot down, half this country loses its material possessions and social services.
And that’s by design. The introduction of divorce rescinded clauses in a concordat no-one’s willing to mention.
Then it’s the usual idiots who’ll go all anti-clerical and paedo this and that in defence of the right to abuse the land, render the poor homeless etc etc.
Not to mention censor any styleme of splendour.
Angelik is nothing, no message.
Angelik is Joe Azzopardi without a TV production company.
Siehbi, jekk trid temmen emmen, u jekk ma tridx temmen, halli lil kulhadd fil-liberta’ tieghu.
Jiena ma nemminx f’dak li jaghmel Angeliku, imma mhux ser inkun jien li nzommu milli jaghmel dak li jrid.
Kull bniedem huwa liberu li jaghmel is-sodda tieghu u jistrieh fiha. U ghall-informazzjoni tieghek, l-awtoritajiet tal-Knisja HEMM qeghdin.
U jekk ma tafx ninfurmak li hargu struzzjonijiet bizzejjed biex wiehed jaghmel l-analizi tieghu, jekk mohhu jahdem.
This man may seem harmless yet in the United States people like him have set up cults and have been responsible for mass suicides.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that he does not cross that line.
Why is it that people believe they are preferred over others in their meetings with their Almighty and that their needs are granted above and beyond those of others.
U fejn sejjer b’mohhok! This is Malta and not the USA.
Hawn Malta hawn wisq il-mentalita tal-merhla – herd mentality.
Ghandek ragun, ghax veru merhla. Ghax wiehed ghamel tattoo, kulhadd intefa jaghmel it-tattooes.
Pero’ haga hija tajba zgur – li Non Compos Mentis Band mhuwiex parti mill-merhliet li hawn madwarna.
Huwa parti minn merhla ohra iktar soffistikata u esklussiva.
“Ara sa ttih rih, Madonna!”
Dik il-kutra issa jaghmilha lotterija.
Didn’t the previous government finance research on this case? Can someone clarify?
If this man and his wife are not mentally ill, they need to be arraigned for fraud/deception.
The ‘blonde’ lady at beginning and end of video is his wife. She looks fine to me.
They’re crooks. Full stop.
Happy new year, Daphne.
This is not North Korea. People cannot be arraigned for leading a religious community, no matter how small or strange.
If Angelik and his wife are arraigned, then all leaders of religious organisations would have to be arraigned on the same charges as well.
The country would have then become an officially atheist country and the only thing left to worship would be the Labour Party.
I would rather leave things as they are.
Who is this rubber-lipped fraud?
There is another mount these people should visit more often: Mount Carmel.
rofl, that cracked me up.
Damn, I wish I could have some of that stuff this dude is smoking – must be some strong shit.
In the UK it is estimated that about a quarter of the population will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year.
In Malta, as a result of inbreeding, the incidence should be even higher.
That is a lot of people we are talking about.
Judging by the size of his audiences, I do not think Angelik is doing well at all.
I had once read that 70% of the Maltese gene pool is made up of the first 15 recorded families, dating back around 600 years. The other roughly 1500 surnames make up the rest – 30%.
Basically, the more new blood you can find in your ancestry over the past couple of centuries, the healthier you should be. If your family lived around the port regions you are lucky because you will have had new blood coming in routinely. Those from rural villages, God help you.
If people believe this crap, they’ll believe anything. Is it any wonder that Muscat got the win that he did?
For those who don’t want to watch 14-plus minutes of stupidity it’s at 3:56.
Qisu mesah l-gharaq ta’ wiccu bix-xugaman.
And there’s a nun kissing the towel at 7:49. I thought members of the clergy would know better.
I hope that the Babe had a bad attack of gas when the fraud was kissing the blanket.
WTF
Good thing he took the towel with him, seems like he knew what was going to happen.
A black mass isn’t half as spooky.
This is an undiagnosed mental illness.
If there isn’t a name for this mental illness yet, one should be established and this dude should be diagnosed. And yes, scientists should work on developing medication.
Just stop broadcasting Xarabank.
It took years for the sightings of Lourdes to be certified a work of God by qualified religious authorities and thank goodness or otherwise every country would be declaring a village as miraculous.
If the Vatican has not, in so far, done anything about the Maltese village in question, then the furore in the video above is false and the authorities should intervene to stop the misleading nonsense.
It is not this retard who freaks me out but the number of followers he gathers.
Exactly my thoughts!
What one sees – one believes.
Maybe, just a hypothesis, could this guy have a neurological condition that he actually experiences hallucinations which are obviously not real but crystal clear in his mind.
Is it possible that Mount Carmel hospital is so full that they can’t find space for this NUT?
I believe in fairies because there is much more scientific evidence of their existence than baby Jesus in Angelik’s hands. Anyway, we do have our fair share of loonies in this country.
X’mental illness, il-madoff – staqsi lin-nies ta’Birzebbuga kif heles mid-dejn li kellu u l-gid li qed jiggenera (ghalih innifsu).
Ghax ma jghidx ukoll li t-tattoos gew wehedhom b’miraklu ukoll. Ara x’naqra microbi kien hemm ma dik il-kutra, kulhadd ibewwes fiha.
Is that Debbie Scerri showing off?
I wonder what kind of drugs he uses.
Having graduated from the University of Life and the Bleedin’ Obvious…..
This man either has a form of psychosis (a loss of contact with reality), and needs help, or is an attention seeking liar, playing with the emotions and minds of his followers.
His gullible/misguided followers are just that, gullible and misguided.
Everyone is vulnerable to persuasion given the right circumstances. Politicians and lawyers go to great lengths to develop their abilities to persuade others to commit to a certain line of thinking.
Hans Christian Andersen meets Angelik in the modern version of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
And whilst our fundamentalist Catholics (aka loonies) are making arses of themselves, other fundamentalists (in the guise of religious crackpots) are wreaking havoc in Northern Africa, the Middle East and as of earlier today, Europe as well.
kif inhu mimli tattoos, anki wara widnejh ghandu.