[lbo-talk] Even a dead Pope can do miracles

[123hop at comcast.net]

Who gives a fuck? I mean it's not like the Vatican is taking a 60 billion bonus out of the world economy. It's just doling out sainthoods.

Joanna

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com> 
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 12:41:54 PM 
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Even a dead Pope can do miracles 

Re. "So Mr Wojtyla could cure some nun's parkinson's, but he couldn't cure 
his own? Miraculous!" 

[WS:] That is not the most fishy part of the story. The supposed miracle 
occurred AFTER he kicked the bucket. Just think about. If I stand next to 
a dying person and wave a magic wand or say a magic word or something of 
that sort and that person is cured afterwards, you can observe a cause - 
effect relationship between me doing something and a person being cured 
(assuming, of course, that I have supernatural powers.) But when the 
miracle in question occurs some time after I die - how can anyone know that 
it was I who did the miracle and not someone else? I mean, it could have 
been some other dude with supernatural powers doing his abracadabra which 
cured the nun, which was unobserved, so what makes them think it was Mr. 
Wojtyla? Believing in the miracle and supernatural powers is one thing, but 
even if you do you need to get your facts who's done it straight, no? 

Wojtek