The Pope has been struck down with a life-threatening illness. He’s called on the flock to pray for him.
I’m bewildered.
If the all powerful deity he’s spent his life preaching about who’s calling all the shots, wants to so inflict him, then surely he shouldn’t question his decisions.
More important, one would think if he truly believed the nonsense he’s devoted his life to spreading, namely a post-death eternal existence in paradise, one would think he’d be bloody keen to get there.
Not so it seems.
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As an under 10yo sitting in a Catholic school run by well meaning nuns, I decided this is BS.
good point, people must’ve read accounts from Buddhists, sending invites to friend and family.
“come for tea on next Thursday afternoon, at 3:30, for i shall be leaving at 3:45 “
You could say that religion, in many ways, is the ultimate long-term trip—one that shapes perception, dictates behavior, and alters reality for billions. It offers certainty in an uncertain world, but when the moment of truth arrives, even the most devout seem to hesitate. The mind clings to life, no matter how much one has preached about the next.
Except certain people who are expecting 70 virgins at their disposal when they get there!
Yeah, the joke is that they are all catholic nuns….oh oh too bad too late no going back…..
I am an agnostic, so I say to all “Prove that there is a god ! Go on prove it!”
The silence is always deafening.
And I say to all, prove that there isn’t. Go on show us that there is no creator.
Statistician and Scientist Matt Briggs shows clearly in a recent post that the creator hypothesis is orders of magnitude more likely than the “random evolution out of the primordial slime” hypothesis.
Oh dear Brian, religion isn’t about proof, it’s about mindless faith. If you have been seeking proof then perhaps you are having some serious doubts about this “God” nonsense…
Prove there is not a God. Your argument works both ways.
If you’re making a claim, then the burden of proof is on you. Not me.
I could make up something invisible and say “prove to me that my God or whatever doesn’t exist.
Anyway which god and don’t be so certain that ‘your god’ is the only one. Muslims, Hindus and countless other religions make the same assertions.
Exactly
One must not forget strength is in unity, and by God they have a powerful network with muscle in Tauranga…
“Those who leap into the abyss owe no explanation to those who stand and watch”.
A case of praise the lord, but pass the antibiotics? Perhaps his holiness worries about a reckoning for shifting the podophiles twixt the masses? (pun intended)
I think the praying is to keep the faithful busy while the Pope gets on with the end of life business. Rather like the old days of home births when the man was sent off to boil water. To keep him busy, out of the way.
Trevor De Cleene in about 1985 commented that there was a gambling tax on the totalisator but there was no gambling tax on churches, as churches are only gambling on the hereafter.
I wonder if that will change after the next Budget.