I’m with Hemant on this, the miracle being so completely useless that god has to be the worst. There is so much going on in the world that an onmibenevolent god should correct, an omnipotent god can correct, and an omniscient god would correct, and even any god who claims love for its creations would do something about. But this god is filling a bowl of crackers so the worship ceremony can continue. How self serving. How does this help anyone? This miracle doesn’t feed the hungry, house the homeless, protect the vulnerable, alleviate pain, end suffering or anything else. It is simply a miracle for serving the god. Fuck any god who does this type of miracle. Good thing it really doesn’t exist and this isn’t really a miracle.
Thank goodness god didn't magically increase the amount of useless stuff, like transfusable blood or food for hungry families or a few thousand acres of rain forest or something.
So I'm guessing someone in charge of this sort of thing heard the priest say that they were running low on hosts & they went and refilled from the bag in the pantry unnoticed. Now they are probably all conflicted because they started this silliness; but at the same time they don't want to embarrass the priest.
OT : I learned something yesterday but I wasn't sure if I should talk about here or not. After insisting for several days DM finally learned why she was kept in the hospital. Her cancer meds are destroying her kidneys. She will have to start chemo at the end of this month.
"Church officials may also review any available video and test the remaining wafers for differences in composition between them and other Communion hosts"
Like, after careful inspection, do they all contain human DNA? If so, could we use modern gene-cloning techniques to generate a twin Jesus? And what lucky gal would get to carry the pregnancy to term? Heck, they could run a $10-a-pop lottery for the honor and make yet more millions of completely unearned loot.
Man, how times have changed. Used to be the miracles were raising people from the dead, curing blindness ... and killing fig trees. Now they're slumming to the point where it's a miracle when someone miscounted the number of lousy-tasting wafers in a box.
I always thought the loaves and fishes miracle was really just people doing what they always do when the food is running low at an event.
So, a crowd gathers at an event and it's clear the food provided isn't enough. Do the people just go hungry? Maybe some do. But a group of women (think church ladies) would gather, assess what was needed, and then quietly go get more food. Likely they'd be quiet about it, not wanting to draw attention, or to be seen as criticizing the men for not providing enough in the first place.
It should have been a parable about human generosity and humility. Not a magic trick.
A real mystery is occurring in homes across the planet - the fact that once one button is placed in a drawer there will soon be a myriad of others the next time you open said drawer. Soon you’ll find buttons in drawers that you never put a button in. When things go bump in the night that’s buttons making whoopee. The evidence for sacrament whoopee is wafter-thin. But BRP (Unknown Button Replication) is a world wide phenomena. The truth is in someone’s drawers!
We have children dying, people being slaughtered, men going missing in deep sea submersible and are probably dead by now and the best this mighty god can do is refill wafers at some church. If that is the best this joker can do, I have more faith in prison gangs than I do this so-called god.
This is a squirrel misdirection. Not that folks are spending any time or energy on condemning the church for its many crimes, but they do these things to keep the focus on the magic and off the reality. Even if it is an honest belief the wafers multiplied, the church leadership’s attention on this “miracle” is designed to keep the congregations enthralled. They even said as much.
“The possibility that the receptacle may have refilled itself during a March 5 service has kindled fascination among the faithful.“
It’s a fucking tent revival, healing the sick and lame in front of a crowd to collect donations. But the sick and lame are all ringers and part of the circus. (Rewatching My Name is Earl and they did an episode on faith healers, it’s amazing how so many folks can broadcast that this crap is a grift and still so many people believe it anyway.)
I would urge anyone who hasn't read John Loftus's anthology, 'The Case Against Miracles' to do so. It is an excellent read. I am simply not wired for the kind of magical thinking religion requires. Especially Catholicism, that I was force-fed it from birth. Take away magical thinking and special pleading, and very little remains of any religion.
Miracles throught the ages:
4000 bce: God creates universe.
1500 bce: God divides sea so millions of his favorites can cross without getting their feet wet.
30 ce: God raises dead people.
2023 ce: God puts extra crackers in a bowl.
Wow. Amazing. /s
I’m with Hemant on this, the miracle being so completely useless that god has to be the worst. There is so much going on in the world that an onmibenevolent god should correct, an omnipotent god can correct, and an omniscient god would correct, and even any god who claims love for its creations would do something about. But this god is filling a bowl of crackers so the worship ceremony can continue. How self serving. How does this help anyone? This miracle doesn’t feed the hungry, house the homeless, protect the vulnerable, alleviate pain, end suffering or anything else. It is simply a miracle for serving the god. Fuck any god who does this type of miracle. Good thing it really doesn’t exist and this isn’t really a miracle.
Thank goodness god didn't magically increase the amount of useless stuff, like transfusable blood or food for hungry families or a few thousand acres of rain forest or something.
Priorities, right?
LOL!
So I'm guessing someone in charge of this sort of thing heard the priest say that they were running low on hosts & they went and refilled from the bag in the pantry unnoticed. Now they are probably all conflicted because they started this silliness; but at the same time they don't want to embarrass the priest.
It's the most stupid of "miracles"!
OT : I learned something yesterday but I wasn't sure if I should talk about here or not. After insisting for several days DM finally learned why she was kept in the hospital. Her cancer meds are destroying her kidneys. She will have to start chemo at the end of this month.
OT
A US court has stricken down Floridumb's transgender health rule that banned state Medicaid payments for transgender healthcare.
"Church officials may also review any available video and test the remaining wafers for differences in composition between them and other Communion hosts"
Like, after careful inspection, do they all contain human DNA? If so, could we use modern gene-cloning techniques to generate a twin Jesus? And what lucky gal would get to carry the pregnancy to term? Heck, they could run a $10-a-pop lottery for the honor and make yet more millions of completely unearned loot.
Man, how times have changed. Used to be the miracles were raising people from the dead, curing blindness ... and killing fig trees. Now they're slumming to the point where it's a miracle when someone miscounted the number of lousy-tasting wafers in a box.
Whoop-whoop.
I always thought the loaves and fishes miracle was really just people doing what they always do when the food is running low at an event.
So, a crowd gathers at an event and it's clear the food provided isn't enough. Do the people just go hungry? Maybe some do. But a group of women (think church ladies) would gather, assess what was needed, and then quietly go get more food. Likely they'd be quiet about it, not wanting to draw attention, or to be seen as criticizing the men for not providing enough in the first place.
It should have been a parable about human generosity and humility. Not a magic trick.
I still don't see what they're investigating. There's no actual eyewitnesses and no possible physical evidence after the fact.
That's not even discussing the things that any rational person would say should be investigated before this.
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A box of 1,000 wafers are like $17.99. So god saved the church like $20 bucks. Surely the divine can do better than that.
A real mystery is occurring in homes across the planet - the fact that once one button is placed in a drawer there will soon be a myriad of others the next time you open said drawer. Soon you’ll find buttons in drawers that you never put a button in. When things go bump in the night that’s buttons making whoopee. The evidence for sacrament whoopee is wafter-thin. But BRP (Unknown Button Replication) is a world wide phenomena. The truth is in someone’s drawers!
We have children dying, people being slaughtered, men going missing in deep sea submersible and are probably dead by now and the best this mighty god can do is refill wafers at some church. If that is the best this joker can do, I have more faith in prison gangs than I do this so-called god.
OT- Welp, I guess New York Republicans will have to start boycotting the subway: https://apnews.com/article/transgender-pride-wagenblast-subways-genderaffirming-f3f185e9a606e2340905e3d7f765e8b7
Yup, the voice behind the MTA's subway announcements is... a trans woman (or, one might say... a 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 woman)! Cue incoherent screaming.
This is a squirrel misdirection. Not that folks are spending any time or energy on condemning the church for its many crimes, but they do these things to keep the focus on the magic and off the reality. Even if it is an honest belief the wafers multiplied, the church leadership’s attention on this “miracle” is designed to keep the congregations enthralled. They even said as much.
“The possibility that the receptacle may have refilled itself during a March 5 service has kindled fascination among the faithful.“
It’s a fucking tent revival, healing the sick and lame in front of a crowd to collect donations. But the sick and lame are all ringers and part of the circus. (Rewatching My Name is Earl and they did an episode on faith healers, it’s amazing how so many folks can broadcast that this crap is a grift and still so many people believe it anyway.)
I would urge anyone who hasn't read John Loftus's anthology, 'The Case Against Miracles' to do so. It is an excellent read. I am simply not wired for the kind of magical thinking religion requires. Especially Catholicism, that I was force-fed it from birth. Take away magical thinking and special pleading, and very little remains of any religion.