Mother Tersea - Confused

[VHG]

The catholic church has said Mother Teresa has had a second miracle attributed to her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35129463

The Vatican said "The miracle involved the healing of a Brazilian man with several brain tumours in 2008"

Mother Teresa died in 1997, nine years before that.

How can this be attributed to Mother Teresa?

Is this modern day and age I am staggered that people still believe in this sort of thing.

Surely it is no better than "witchcraft".

And it staggers me that MORE people follow the catholic church rather than less, even with the churches controversial history and modern day abuse of children by priests.

I suppose it shows how many gullible people there are in the world.

[naomi24]

^With no comment attached. Curious.

[jennyjoan]

Always remember that a

Nun is a Woman dressed in a habit

Priest is a Man dressed in a habit.

That is Woman and Man just like you and me.

[naomi24]

Me too, Jordy. A poster was extremely rude to someone else recently. I said his post was 'pathetic'. That was removed. The offending post remains. There is no rhyme or reason. I expect this will disappear shortly after I press 'submit'.

[Sqad]

Jordy......think of a Mod that is on now..........one that doesn't like you............and that is the only rational reason that i can think of.

C'mon..........who objected to a piece of music by Frankie Lane?

[pixie374]

Probably nobody objected. I think it would have been left in CB,but not in News.

[jennyjoan]

who doesn't like you Jordy and I'll give him/her a skelping.

I love Frankie Laine - and I love I believe - it humbles me.

[vulcan42]

Could it possibly be as prosaic as the person who removed it considered it was advertising a record company? very odd.

[ummmm]

If you po.sted a youtube song, Jordy, you have been warned about that. It's not really appropriate in news.

Anyway....MT was self serving. The kind of person that done charitable acts to make her feel good but really was a complete hypocrite who didn't, herself, rely on the power of prayer.

imo.

[ummmm]

Oh...and I was brought up a Roman Catholic.

[vulcan42]

There is nothing in the Site Rules about music being posted on the wrong topic.

[Sqad]

\\\\It's not really appropriate in news. \\\\

In the last 24 hours we have had:

Tinnitus in CB and Crossword query in Body and Soul and they haven't been removed.

I thought that Jordy's religious post was very appropriate to the OP.

[jomifl]

Mother Teresa was a daft old bat who was trying to earn brownie points to get a good berth in heaven, god alone knows how many people suffered as a result...I am of course dispassionate in this matter as I am an atheist :-)

[Khandro]

gness; //I'm with Stephen Fry on this....// It's a shame you can't find a better representative of atheism than Fry, who has been referred to in the Spectator as "the high-priest of juvenile atheism". He's also got some rather nasty views about women.

I'm sorry that your early life was so marred by a close proximity to Catholic bigotry that it turned you away from all religion so completely, you must know though that not all Catholics are like that.

[naomi24]

Khandro, why would anyone take The Spectator’s word for it? I’d say gness’ close proximity to Catholic bigotry ultimately did her a favour in turning her from religion.

[Khandro]

naomi; I think you are able to advise gness on a better advocate for atheism than Stephen Fry.
My point is; (excuse me talking about you in 3rd person gness) she rejected religion because of bigots, and turned to an extremely bigoted representative of atheism. There are many, you know, who are capable of giving a coherent case for atheism without resorting to the kind of language of this coke-snorting, woman hating, buggerer.

[naomi24]

Khandro, //There are many, you know, who are capable of giving a coherent case for atheism without resorting to the kind of language of this coke-snorting, woman hating, buggerer. //

What did he say?

[gness]

Thanks, Khandro....but I will stick with Mr Fry......

I didn't reject Catholicism because of bigotry......it wasn't the intolerance of my family towards others that drove me away from the church....in fact they're a fairly tolerant bunch.

It was seeing the misuse of power to control and abuse (in many ways) their followers that was beyond my comprehension.......and I wasn't very old before I realised that this was a shocking way to live.....and to make others live....it still puzzles me.....this church keeps people poor and downtrodden.

Yes there are good Catholics....but it's not because they are Catholic that they are good.

I have a lovely family.....well bar the nuns and one randy Bishop.....but they know that I think they should have turned their backs on this church when the scale of sexual and physical abuse became known........and of course they pray that I will return to the fold.....☺

An impossibility even should I want to.......following an ectopic pregnancy I was informed that I couldn't receive the Sacraments of the Catholic Church until I had asked for God's forgiveness........seems allowing surgery to remove the burst tube and foetus was a sin....who knew?.....☺