• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    Not that you didn’t already know it intellectually, but shit like this really pushes home how much of a scam Catholicism, and Christianity in general, really are. I mean they’re claiming this guy healed people? Over the internet? What’s the difference between this and those Faith healers that scam people all over the world?

    I mean is this really a case where a bunch of old people think a kid is Magic because he can make the internet work?

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      There’s a local saint here and one of her “confirmed” miracles is that a guy with somewhat bad eyesight, but not so bad he couldn’t live a basically normal life, prayed to her and got 20/20 vision. Seriously.

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        Why are there all these middlemen to pray to? Why does Jesus need to delegate the power to cure mild astigmatism? Lol

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      The whole thing is rather strange. I assume that there are many Catholics self aware enough to know that he clearly didn’t perform any miracles but just go along with it anyway.

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          We’re talking about a religion where the son of God walked on water and fed five thousand people with five fish and two loaves of bread.

          I think it’s easier to buy in to the fantasy when there are several hundreds of years between you and the so-called miracle though.

          You have to remember that religious people don’t use the scientific method and that they see faith as a very virtuous characteristic.

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        This is just how it’s always worked. It was just easier to convince people to believe in miracles when we didn’t have explanations for everything and video cameras. The church is reaching for coincidences and calling them miracles because that’s the best they can do. I’m just surprised they are still trying to make saints and not just settling for Saint Classic.

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      It’s not a joke when they rape kids and then cover it up.

      It’s also not a joke when they tell people in communities with a significantly high number of HIV cases not to use condoms.

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    I liked it better when saints had to be tied upside down to a cross and flayed alive to be canonized.

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    All that internet healing and he couldn’t save himself? Doesn’t sound saint like to me