It’s very unfair … I suffer dreadfully from the disease ME/CFS … and this story is making me feel more sickly. That’s all proof that THEISM is a spoof.
I’ll get a carton of matches and a thousand birthday cake candles, find a cattletick church with unlocked doors, and attempt to light all candles on the big meat chopping table up the front near the big gold lightening conductor.
“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.”
In new book, Kamala Harris says it was reckless to let Biden make reelection decision on his own
Many years back my sister-in-law married what’s referred to as "an unusually good cattletick". BUT, he himself and his church would not allow him to marry until she signed her life away and became a member of the cattletick nuthouse church.
Ten years back, at least my normal human non-theist son was able to marry his lady, who is a cattletick on paper, without joining the herd of suffering cattleticks.
About a century ago, my catholic church going never missed Sunday mass great grandmother married my Atheist the fuck I would set foot in a church great grandfather.
The Catholic Church has become notorious for taking anything even slightly out of the ordinary as a "miracle." It has gotten to the point where they no longer employ a "devil's advocate" to argue against a proposed sanctification. (Worthy of note, Christopher Hitchens actually served as such an advocate against Mother Teresa! A shame they couldn't bother to actually LISTEN to him. 😝)
This particular sainthood, such as it is, amounts to little more than a desperate attempt to rope Millennials and GenZers into the Church. I have to wonder just who Vatican City thinks their kidding, as kids know their way around cell phones and media better than damned near anyone, and those who are sufficiently engaged to think will see through this charade about as fast as you can swipe to the left!
I've said it before and will say it again: the RCC is grasping at straws.
Don't forget the president's unfortunate brush with death. Won't that be elevated to some kind of Catholic miracle one of these days? I looked it up, and there are a number of saints who are said to receive prayer about earaches.
My first thought, of course, is why God permits any child to suffer at all. This whole story begins with the death of a child. Probably a child whose parents prayed for a miracle and didn't receive one. Why would God permit so many children to suffer and die and hand out miracles like they were limited by scarcity? The easiest and most likely answer is that miracles don't happen or have a rare natural cause.
Anyway, yeah, the Catholic Church is absolutely using this dead child as a marketing tool.
“I moved away from practicing religion and I stopped asking why God would allow people to suffer, and started asking why WE are allowing people to suffer.”
—Tatiana Chance, former Jehovah’s Witness, winner of the 2025 Youth Activist Award from Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Two instances where patients getting state of the art medical care had relatives who touched something a dead kid was associated with, and when they recovered it 𝘩𝘢𝘥 to be the dead kid doing a miracle and not the medical professionals. Critical thinking is dead.
I would sometimes use that principle to my advantage. I used to smoke and depend on public transportation to get everywhere. If I really wanted the bus to come, I would light a cigarette. The bus was almost guaranteed to arrive before I finished smoking it.
Further Thought: People have been going to Lourdes for longer than I care to think. One hears stories of miracles and of people leaving walkers and crutches and wheelchairs behind. Still, I'd be willing to bet that NOT ONCE has anyone ever left a prosthetic arm or leg as they left.
And if they did, where is all the news about a regrown limb?
"Paid off" being the key phrase. If the Vatican can get more money put of it, they will. If it distracts from the kiddie diddling scandals, they'll do it. Anything to keep the faithful in line and opening their wallets.
It’s hard not to just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, but the Catholic Church really wants to be the comeback-kid right now and that should alarm everyone. From the surprise American Pope to the sadistic Supreme Court 6, the pieces are all in place for the win by force (here anyway). They want us to forget about all the oppression and the child abuse. Sorry, they are not forgiven. Thanks.
Ugh, I tried to read the book Opus by Gareth Gore, and I just couldn't. "ANOTHER cult?!" I thought. "I can't take anymore!" Opus Dei preys on the trauma-bonds of well-educated young men who go on into finance and other influential positions. And then they traffic women to act as the men's servants. So gross. Yes, this is the organization that that foul, pustulant dictator wanna-be turd joined before his puppet master bought him the Vice Presidential spot.
Yikes! I don’t think I could read that, right now anyhow. I was unaware of the name of ol’ JD’s cult. He’s so much worse than Dear Leader because he’s a “true believer”
Congratulations to the catholic church that will try to win as much money as possible with this boy's tragic death while the family paid for everything. And the grift goes on 🎶
So, what the fuck is this poor kid gonna be the patron saint of? 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮-𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨?
It's all quite horrible, really. All of your actual accomplishments, your personality, your passions... everything, forever, all forgotten. The only thing about you that will ever be remembered again is someone else's posthumous delusion. Not your life- not even your death. Just one little incident that you didn't even play a role in, because you were already dead, replacing the whole of your life and memory. That's sainthood in a nutshell.
Nothing new for the Catholic Church. They dug up a dead nun and declared a miracle that little decomposition had happened and many kissed the corpse on the lips. The buzz around the nun and the newly manufactured saint is to keep existing customers happy, the money flowing, and to lure new customers. Just a business to prey on people's emotions that was and is a social media empire way before the internet.
There is no idea so absurd there will not be people who believe it. All religions are desperate for a sense of validation, it isn't limited to Catholics. It isn't as if the Catholic church can prove any of this. You should not have great expectations for a species so deeply rooted in magical thinking.
Today may be a short session for me. I find myself needing to go to the VA. Something is going on with the lower left half of my body that I cannot explain and that seems to have no cause.
If I return today, it may be much later, depending on what they find.
Today: It's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six. The subtext is, of course, that it is better to murder an unarmed person than to risk a paper cut.
The xtian cult is filled with the most gullible of rubes. I remember a news article a few years back where a woman was interviewed because her sister had died in a fire. The premise of the story was that her sister’s bible had survived the fire and that was somehow a miracle from ‘god’. This vapid bint was gushing about how god saved the bible but not a bit of sorrow that her sister had perished in the fire.
Religion attracts the incurious, it beats the curiosity out of the curious, and it rewards the lack of curiosity. This allows the mindless to accept the nonsense, including miracles.
There was a meme, don't know if it was about this particular incident, but it was just an exchange where she gushed on about that and somebody chipped in with "Someone died, Helen" or something like that.
"died of leukemia" It's a miracle that the Catholic omnipotent God didn't spare the youngster's life of suffering and death. Something many believers in the supernatural and invisible beings will never question or think about. Sadly the fear is controlling them.
Precisely my point. Maybe half a century ago, leukemia was problematic and frequently terminal, but NOT NOW. I think there's a whole story regarding Carlo which has yet to be told.
Pardon, my friend. I would say precisely not your point. Chances of survival depends of an early and correct diagnosis* which doesn't seems to be the case here for this poor boy.
At 70 with prostate cancer it has been treatable but will never completely go away. Radiation and hormone injections have greatly reduced the chances of dying from it. Thanks to science not some invisible omnipotent beings.
Of course it is all marketing. It is selling a non existent product.
Following from yesterday's article, the city that rejected the church expansion into the commercial District was wrong to do so. Or would have been, if churches were correctly identified as profit making commercial ventures THAT PAID TAXES.
I guess it’s a miracle that mom had the money to make this a reality. Otherwise, none of us would know about the sad death of a young man before his time.
Bottom line: This was about the money for the RCC, as always. Acutis' parents have it and Holy Mother Church is all too willing to cut a deal.
It’s very unfair … I suffer dreadfully from the disease ME/CFS … and this story is making me feel more sickly. That’s all proof that THEISM is a spoof.
Did you light enough candles at the correct saint's shrine?
BLAST !
Was that the likely cause of my health demise ?
I’ll get a carton of matches and a thousand birthday cake candles, find a cattletick church with unlocked doors, and attempt to light all candles on the big meat chopping table up the front near the big gold lightening conductor.
Fingers crossed !
I called it yesterday.
But...but...Joe Biden is a Good Catholic(TM)?
A basically good man who happens to be a devout Catholic.
And unlike so many Rethuglikkkan xtian hypocrites, Biden tries to live by his beliefs. Not just when it’s convenient.
Biden still believes he could have beaten Trump.
Beliefs...or delusions?
Biden at his most delusional is nowhere NEAR as delusional as Trump is.
Thank you!
“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.”
In new book, Kamala Harris says it was reckless to let Biden make reelection decision on his own
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/politics/kamala-harris-book-107-days-biden
No kidding, no comparison.
Biden's maudlin Catholicism is a feature, not a bug.
Joe Biden never got handsy with his daughters (unlike a certain pumpkin-hued molester).
Many years back my sister-in-law married what’s referred to as "an unusually good cattletick". BUT, he himself and his church would not allow him to marry until she signed her life away and became a member of the cattletick nuthouse church.
Ten years back, at least my normal human non-theist son was able to marry his lady, who is a cattletick on paper, without joining the herd of suffering cattleticks.
About a century ago, my catholic church going never missed Sunday mass great grandmother married my Atheist the fuck I would set foot in a church great grandfather.
Ellis Peter's, A morbid taste for bones (Traffic de reliques). This novel doesn't sound like an endorsement of catholic cult of relics.
The Catholic Church has become notorious for taking anything even slightly out of the ordinary as a "miracle." It has gotten to the point where they no longer employ a "devil's advocate" to argue against a proposed sanctification. (Worthy of note, Christopher Hitchens actually served as such an advocate against Mother Teresa! A shame they couldn't bother to actually LISTEN to him. 😝)
This particular sainthood, such as it is, amounts to little more than a desperate attempt to rope Millennials and GenZers into the Church. I have to wonder just who Vatican City thinks their kidding, as kids know their way around cell phones and media better than damned near anyone, and those who are sufficiently engaged to think will see through this charade about as fast as you can swipe to the left!
I've said it before and will say it again: the RCC is grasping at straws.
> The Catholic Church has become notorious for taking anything even slightly out of the ordinary as a "miracle."
Hey, when you don't have much in the way of unexplained events to choose from, you have to use whatever you can get.
You can smell the desperation on 'em. 😝
Don't forget the president's unfortunate brush with death. Won't that be elevated to some kind of Catholic miracle one of these days? I looked it up, and there are a number of saints who are said to receive prayer about earaches.
I want a recent shot of Trump in profile, right side particularly. The reason why is left as an exercise for the student...
He would have to convert first.
They have to compete with all the christo-fascist red pill propaganda that is dragging in GenZ and younger boys worldwide.
I look at the website. No one is gonna think "cool man".
I would strongly encourage people to read John Loftus' anthology on miracles.
[Was it a miracle or was it a misdiagnosis?]
Don't know. Unusual things still happen.
My first thought, of course, is why God permits any child to suffer at all. This whole story begins with the death of a child. Probably a child whose parents prayed for a miracle and didn't receive one. Why would God permit so many children to suffer and die and hand out miracles like they were limited by scarcity? The easiest and most likely answer is that miracles don't happen or have a rare natural cause.
Anyway, yeah, the Catholic Church is absolutely using this dead child as a marketing tool.
“I moved away from practicing religion and I stopped asking why God would allow people to suffer, and started asking why WE are allowing people to suffer.”
—Tatiana Chance, former Jehovah’s Witness, winner of the 2025 Youth Activist Award from Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Damn! Hell of a statement, especially from a former JW!
Two instances where patients getting state of the art medical care had relatives who touched something a dead kid was associated with, and when they recovered it 𝘩𝘢𝘥 to be the dead kid doing a miracle and not the medical professionals. Critical thinking is dead.
Math problem:
Given: Religion + Good Works = Good Works
Solve for Religion.
Do I have to show my work?
Sympathetic Magic is alive and well.
I believe in unsympathetic magic, e.g., if I have my sunglasses with me and no umbrella on a cloudy day, it will definitely rain.
Brady's First Law: Life tends toward inconvenience.
I would sometimes use that principle to my advantage. I used to smoke and depend on public transportation to get everywhere. If I really wanted the bus to come, I would light a cigarette. The bus was almost guaranteed to arrive before I finished smoking it.
I got distracted... It is 'Life tends toward maximum inconvenience.'
So true. Let's see how it would go without medical intervention. Well...we have seen, and it usually ends very poorly.
They saint you for that too. Hello Mother Teresa!
Further Thought: People have been going to Lourdes for longer than I care to think. One hears stories of miracles and of people leaving walkers and crutches and wheelchairs behind. Still, I'd be willing to bet that NOT ONCE has anyone ever left a prosthetic arm or leg as they left.
And if they did, where is all the news about a regrown limb?
First hallucination 1858
Last miracle 2009
Millions of pilgrims each year, 72 miraculous healings.
Mary sure is stingy with her help 🤔
She's busy in heaven's kitchen making sammiches for pops, junior, and the spook.
Can’t stop laughing
Shit Joe, that was funny.
Was there any follow up? Adrenaline can be a hell of a drug, but it wears off.
That's the kind of crap that Benny Hinn depends on all the time.
Lourdes closed during covid.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Stop It, STOP IT, Yer KILLIN' Me Here! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
𝐼𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓.
"Paid off" being the key phrase. If the Vatican can get more money put of it, they will. If it distracts from the kiddie diddling scandals, they'll do it. Anything to keep the faithful in line and opening their wallets.
If it's a distraction, making a kid a saint is kind of self-defeating, It would put MORE focus on the kiddie fiddling.
"Don't look at the live kids being abused, look at the dead kid doing miracles!"
If only they were just fiddling with the kiddies.....nope, these bastards are 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 the children.
It’s hard not to just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, but the Catholic Church really wants to be the comeback-kid right now and that should alarm everyone. From the surprise American Pope to the sadistic Supreme Court 6, the pieces are all in place for the win by force (here anyway). They want us to forget about all the oppression and the child abuse. Sorry, they are not forgiven. Thanks.
Ugh, I tried to read the book Opus by Gareth Gore, and I just couldn't. "ANOTHER cult?!" I thought. "I can't take anymore!" Opus Dei preys on the trauma-bonds of well-educated young men who go on into finance and other influential positions. And then they traffic women to act as the men's servants. So gross. Yes, this is the organization that that foul, pustulant dictator wanna-be turd joined before his puppet master bought him the Vice Presidential spot.
Yikes! I don’t think I could read that, right now anyhow. I was unaware of the name of ol’ JD’s cult. He’s so much worse than Dear Leader because he’s a “true believer”
Congratulations to the catholic church that will try to win as much money as possible with this boy's tragic death while the family paid for everything. And the grift goes on 🎶
So, what the fuck is this poor kid gonna be the patron saint of? 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮-𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨?
It's all quite horrible, really. All of your actual accomplishments, your personality, your passions... everything, forever, all forgotten. The only thing about you that will ever be remembered again is someone else's posthumous delusion. Not your life- not even your death. Just one little incident that you didn't even play a role in, because you were already dead, replacing the whole of your life and memory. That's sainthood in a nutshell.
Horrible.
"So, what the fuck is this poor kid gonna be the patron saint of? 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮-𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨?"
I did a lot of that as a teen. It would be appropriate.
You took time to find grease?
I applaud your restraint.
How often did you shave your palms?
also, how is your vision??
I wear progressive bifocals, aka trifocals.
My prescription is so strong, I have x-ray vision.
https://youtu.be/y2n-HGG6doM
Greased palm. - That's one way to keep people from stealing your coconuts.
Nothing new for the Catholic Church. They dug up a dead nun and declared a miracle that little decomposition had happened and many kissed the corpse on the lips. The buzz around the nun and the newly manufactured saint is to keep existing customers happy, the money flowing, and to lure new customers. Just a business to prey on people's emotions that was and is a social media empire way before the internet.
The final nail for me in Catholicism was when the holiest woman in the world was exposed as a hypocrite and, no other way of putting it, a monster.
If you're talking about Mother Teresa, a lot of the criticism against her was false.
The buzz around the nun was most likely flies.
There is no idea so absurd there will not be people who believe it. All religions are desperate for a sense of validation, it isn't limited to Catholics. It isn't as if the Catholic church can prove any of this. You should not have great expectations for a species so deeply rooted in magical thinking.
OT
Today may be a short session for me. I find myself needing to go to the VA. Something is going on with the lower left half of my body that I cannot explain and that seems to have no cause.
If I return today, it may be much later, depending on what they find.
At least it's not the lower right. : )
Best wishes!
Get Well SOON! 👍
God Speed!
Sorry I couldn't resist.
Good luck and be careful out there.
Cue Michael Conrad as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2QApwtE8zQ
Today: It's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six. The subtext is, of course, that it is better to murder an unarmed person than to risk a paper cut.
Thanx. Back in the saddle. 🙂
Anyone we know? ;)
I'd say, but modesty forbids.
cdbunch isn't around much anymore, so you can admit it was Ryan Reynolds.
Hope all is okay.
Good luck!
Be well. I hope everything is OK.
Thanks to all who replied. Means a lot, believe me.
I'm kinda late today, but I do hope you're feeling better and whatever they did find wasn't serious.
Turned out to be a form of arthritis. Oddly enough, it’s currently behaving itself.
Thank you for posting. Much appreciated.
Good luck.
Thnx. :)
The xtian cult is filled with the most gullible of rubes. I remember a news article a few years back where a woman was interviewed because her sister had died in a fire. The premise of the story was that her sister’s bible had survived the fire and that was somehow a miracle from ‘god’. This vapid bint was gushing about how god saved the bible but not a bit of sorrow that her sister had perished in the fire.
It’s a death and grifting cult.
Religion attracts the incurious, it beats the curiosity out of the curious, and it rewards the lack of curiosity. This allows the mindless to accept the nonsense, including miracles.
Religion also rejects critical thinking, introspection, self reflection so that the followers are willing to become mindless drones.
She never said she liked her sister.
Ah, so she set the fire.
We didn't start the fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
Ear worm burn.
Frank Burn?
No ferrets were harmed in the making of this comment.
There was a meme, don't know if it was about this particular incident, but it was just an exchange where she gushed on about that and somebody chipped in with "Someone died, Helen" or something like that.
Surely, the death part is merely incidental to the real story.
👆🎯
"died of leukemia" It's a miracle that the Catholic omnipotent God didn't spare the youngster's life of suffering and death. Something many believers in the supernatural and invisible beings will never question or think about. Sadly the fear is controlling them.
In God We Trust? 🤔
Ah, but God needed a YOUNG saint. Most of them are too old to appeal these days.
You try being 1500 years old and see how attractive you are to a 60-year-old priest.
15 might be a tad old for some.
Yes. those guys.
That must have been one horrid case of leukemia. Leukemia is TREATABLE, or at least around here it is, and it should NOT be a death sentence!
So what the actual fuck is going on here?
https://www.roswellpark.org/cancer/leukemia/survival-rates#:~:text=Chronic%20lymphocytic%20leukemia%20(CLL)%205,year%20survival%20rate%20is%2031.9%25.
Precisely my point. Maybe half a century ago, leukemia was problematic and frequently terminal, but NOT NOW. I think there's a whole story regarding Carlo which has yet to be told.
And I'm wondering if it ever will be.
Pardon, my friend. I would say precisely not your point. Chances of survival depends of an early and correct diagnosis* which doesn't seems to be the case here for this poor boy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Acutis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_promyelocytic_leukemia
* I nagged DM for weeks before she told a doctor there was something weird with one of her breasts and her cancer was caught at an early stage
"what the actual" For many Christians no need for treatment, their God will cure them. Ask Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copland?
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At 70 with prostate cancer it has been treatable but will never completely go away. Radiation and hormone injections have greatly reduced the chances of dying from it. Thanks to science not some invisible omnipotent beings.
Tots and Pears. 🤔
With most religion, it is ALWAYS marketing.
In one of his talks, Seth Andrews mentioned a woman who told him: "Everything I ever learned about marketing, I learned in church!"
Speaks volumes, don't it?
"Seth Andrews" is a favorite to listen too. Thanks 🙂
Long live Seth!
Of course it is all marketing. It is selling a non existent product.
Following from yesterday's article, the city that rejected the church expansion into the commercial District was wrong to do so. Or would have been, if churches were correctly identified as profit making commercial ventures THAT PAID TAXES.
If it's not marketing, it's performative piety.
Oh wait. I thought you said martyring.
I guess it’s a miracle that mom had the money to make this a reality. Otherwise, none of us would know about the sad death of a young man before his time.