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Walter_Mitty · 10-01-2002, 01:31 PM

Things to make you go: pseudoscience.

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2290349.stm" target="_blank">Mother T & the Vatican</a>

Ab_Normal · 10-01-2002, 02:55 PM

Boy, miracles are getting lame lately.

sakrilege · 10-01-2002, 03:34 PM

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The Vatican's saint-making Congregation for the Causes of Saints

That sounds like an impartial group now doesn't it?

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Tom Sawyer · 10-02-2002, 08:12 AM

Why did God only cure that one woman and not any of the millions of others that prayed to MT?

I don't remember much about saints, but I seem to recall that a lot of miracles have been a lot more flashy than that. That's a bit lame (unless you're that woman, of course).

Demigawd · 10-02-2002, 09:04 AM

At least they could have made up something alot more cool than that. Maybe along the lines of levitating her x-wing out of a swamp or something.

DigitalDruid · 10-09-2002, 08:11 AM

Apparently the effort to turn Mother T into a saint has run into some resistance.

The woman's doctor and a rationalist organization in Calcutta are saying it's not the Mother but medicine which cured the woman. The woman had about six months of treatment after the tumour was detected.

But I doubt if that would stop the saint-makers in Vatican. The current Pope's saint production rate far surpasses that of his past 10 predecessors combined.

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: DigitalDruid ]</p>

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Tom Sawyer Talk Freethought Staff Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto, eh Posts: 42,293	Why did God only cure that one woman and not any of the millions of others that prayed to MT? I don't remember much about saints, but I seem to recall that a lot of miracles have been a lot more flashy than that. That's a bit lame (unless you're that woman, of course).

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Demigawd Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place Posts: 2,254	At least they could have made up something alot more cool than that. Maybe along the lines of levitating her x-wing out of a swamp or something.

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DigitalDruid Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 712	Apparently the effort to turn Mother T into a saint has run into some resistance. The woman's doctor and a rationalist organization in Calcutta are saying it's not the Mother but medicine which cured the woman. The woman had about six months of treatment after the tumour was detected. But I doubt if that would stop the saint-makers in Vatican. The current Pope's saint production rate far surpasses that of his past 10 predecessors combined. [ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: DigitalDruid ]</p>

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