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Pope says God isn't a magician
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 3, 2014 at 10:32 pm (This post was last modified: November 3, 2014 at 10:32 pm by Sejanus.)
Legend has it the pope's hat contains a series of rooms and antechambers that can be used to hide thousands of priests child molesters. Of course he's a magician.
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 3, 2014 at 10:47 pm
(November 3, 2014 at 10:23 pm)Stimbo Wrote: No, I have no splitting hairs, but thanks for your concern. The word 'replacement' carries an implication of substitution, sure, but 'substitute' does not imply replacement. In the case of a vicar, s/he is a de facto stand-in for a god, a figurehead for the devotion of the faithful - not a replacement for a god.

And a de facto stand in is not a replacement for someone who is absent?
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 3, 2014 at 10:51 pm
You mean he can't do magic? There goes omnipotence...Sad
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 3, 2014 at 11:17 pm (This post was last modified: November 3, 2014 at 11:17 pm by Drich.)
Does one have to be a magician to do magic?
Oohh Oohh looks like omnipotence is making a come back..
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 3, 2014 at 11:33 pm
(November 3, 2014 at 11:17 pm)Drich Wrote: Does one have to be a magician to do magic?
Oohh Oohh looks like omnipotence is making a come back..

if god isn't magical he is jealous of people who can use real magic but since this is real life magic doesn't exist its just smoke and mirrors.
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 4, 2014 at 12:21 am
(November 3, 2014 at 10:47 pm)Drich Wrote: And a de facto stand in is not a replacement for someone who is absent?

Thank you for confirming that "God" is absent and requires a substitute.
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.'
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 4, 2014 at 12:27 am
(November 3, 2014 at 10:32 pm)Sejanus Wrote: Legend has it the pope's hat contains a series of rooms and antechambers that can be used to hide thousands of priests child molesters. Of course he's a magician.

Over here, the term "pope's hat" has a specific genital meaning. Often employed in the phrase "pulling the pope's hat off".
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.'
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 4, 2014 at 12:38 am
(November 3, 2014 at 4:38 pm)professor Wrote: Well Stimbo regardless whether it is replacement or substitute, the outcome is the same.
He claims to be able to speak the declarations of God in place of God.

He and his representatives claim to turn the little wafer into God with their hocus-pocus ceremony called the Mass (called by them a Sacrifice).

When you understand why you reject their beliefs, you'll understand why we reject yours.

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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 4, 2014 at 8:50 am
(November 4, 2014 at 12:21 am)Stimbo Wrote:
(November 3, 2014 at 10:47 pm)Drich Wrote: And a de facto stand in is not a replacement for someone who is absent?

Thank you for confirming that "God" is absent and requires a substitute.

And thank you for defaulting to logical fallacy so as to excuse me from the rest of this conversation.
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RE: Pope says God isn't a magician
November 4, 2014 at 9:12 am
(November 3, 2014 at 11:17 pm)Drich Wrote: Does one have to be a magician to do magic?
Oohh Oohh looks like omnipotence is making a come back..

Don't listen to them, Drich. You can make him omnipotent if you want to. He's your God.
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