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Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
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Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBR...8?irpc=932

Quote:CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiny fragments said to be from the manger that held the infant Jesus, the veil of his mother, Mary, and a thread from the cloak of St. Joseph will be displayed by a Roman Catholic church in Chicago when it celebrates its 155th anniversary on Sunday.

The fragments, released by the Vatican in 1972, were a gift to the Holy Family Church from the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, also in Chicago. Displaying them now has particular significance because of their association with Christmas, which marks the birth of Jesus.

The Rev. Jeremiah J. Boland, administrator of the church, said on Friday that he is "not that interested" in carbon testing the items to see if they are from the beginning of the Christian Era.

What is amazing is that in the 21st century there are still morons who believe such abject shit.
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RE: Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
Of course he isn't interested in scientifically testing the items, because he remembers the shroud of Turin.

And you are correct, but you have uncharacteristically understated the bewilderment that comes from knowing that hordes of Catholics will actually buy this nonsense.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
Yeah...the average catholic is well below "average."
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RE: Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
I had to look twice at the url, just to make sure it wasn't from The Onion or similar. Typical, isn't it; as soon as something solid that can be independently analysed does finally show up, it's suddenly a scientific non-issue. At the very least it's playing into the hands of all those sceptics - ie us lot - who might, just possibly, think there's something dodgy going on.
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: Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
(December 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm)Stimbo Wrote: At the very least it's playing into the hands of all those sceptics - ie us lot - who might, just possibly, think there's something dodgy going on.

might?
LOL
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RE: Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
Sarcasm via understatement, old bean.
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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