Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On January 12, 2003 in response to a final official declaration of acceptance of the Monica Besra miracle as genuine, I wrote a short explanation on why this so-called miracle is actually a garden variety medical cure, i. e. as a result of modern medical treatment. There was no response to my post, which was unusual considering the fact that there are at least a couple of vocal believers in miracles (of course, only the Christian ones) who use all kinds of tactics including innuendo, plagiarism and personal abuse to shill for dishonesty in the miracle business and to attack anybody, but especially George Pinto and me. --------------
Come on Santosh, you know as well as I do that the Church is hell bent on making Mother Teresa a Saint. If she has not performed a certified miracle in her life time, they will find one for her. If two miracles are required, no problem. They know what to do............... The only good that may come out of this exercise is now that the farce/process of appointing people saints becomes known to the lay people, perhaps some of them will question the whole concept of Saints. I find it funny that a person would need to pray to a Saint for 'intervention' when the direct line to God is open to all. Funnier still is when the church changes it's mind a declares a Saint er, sort of, not a Saint anymore even though, St. Christopher for example, answered everyboby's prayers for a few hundred years :-) Lastly, Mother Teresa addressed the Dar-es-Salaam (Goan) Institute in 1976 or 1977. She came to Tanzania to start a home and was appealling for funds. Although I was just a teenager then, I still remember members saying that, "if you donate to Mother Teresa, all your prayers will be answered." Thats the sort of short cut that I like.......... Mervyn ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################