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Catholic miracles
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RE: Catholic miracles
December 7, 2014 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2014 at 12:38 pm by LostLocke.)
Even the Catholic Church doesn't claim the 'blood event' is a miracle.
But they do seem to like to milk it for it's awe inspiring power. Plus, they don't allow 3rd party testing of the contents of the vials. So right there that should send up red flags.
Since you mentioned milk. There's even a church milking the holy mother. Kind of a lactation fetish actually.
Here's a list to some of the rather obscure relics of the Roman Catholic church. https://herodotuswept.wordpress.com/2008...east-milk/
OK....
Mary squirting milk at a kneeling monk? Was I looking at Catholic imagery or German porn? And, digging deeper into 'incorruptible saints'..... yeah, no. If incorruptible means that your skin, while heavily decayed, is still all attached, then sure, I'll bite.
Holy Shit.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/no...esus-tears Quote:Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing. Indian rationalist targets 'miracles' Quote:When water started trickling down a statue of Jesus Christ at a Catholic church in Mumbai earlier this year, locals were quick to declare a miracle. Some began collecting the holy water and the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni began to promote it as a site of pilgrimage. In the old days when the church could tie doubters to a stake and fry them they tended to get away with this shit a lot more. (December 6, 2014 at 11:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote: 5. Miracle. --- Repeated clinical tests, minimum. If a miracle becomes repeatable it ceases to be a miracle but rather an artifact of nature. If everytime Benny Hinn said "alleluia" an amputee grew a new limb, that wouldn't be a miracle. It would simply be the way the world works. We'd write some law to describe that observation.....maybe call it "The law of conservation of limbs" or something. (December 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Heywood Wrote: If everytime Benny Hinn said "alleluia" an amputee grew a new limb, that wouldn't be a miracle. Once would be enough. RE: Catholic miracles
December 7, 2014 at 3:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2014 at 3:25 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Heywood Wrote: If a miracle becomes repeatable it ceases to be a miracle but rather an artifact of nature. Then it likely wasn't a miracle at all.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(December 7, 2014 at 3:23 pm)abaris Wrote:(December 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Heywood Wrote: If everytime Benny Hinn said "alleluia" an amputee grew a new limb, that wouldn't be a miracle. Maybe it did happen once. Here is one documented case of a restored limb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Calanda (December 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm)Heywood Wrote:(December 6, 2014 at 11:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote: 5. Miracle. --- Repeated clinical tests, minimum. I suppose, unless it only worked for believers who said alleluia, or even only particular believers who said alleluia. And that is the point. Miracles are by definition extraordinary events and so accepting a tale of one without considerably better proof than we ordinarily rely is a good idea. This isn't just a requirement for miracles. The scientific community heard much about the duck-billed platypus, before allowing it's existence, and given the oddity of the animal in comparison to others, rightly so.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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