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deacon_sephiroth

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13. I see what the vatican did there and I'm going to learn from it.

Reply to Angry Dragon (Original post)

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 12:13 PM

Dec 2011

Here I am working hard every day in order to get credit for it... when all I really have to do is let everyone ELSE work really hard and then claim it was me all along... how moral and just. I'd only be following the example of the church, and the pope so it can't be a bad thing right? Those guys never do anything disgusting, ammoral, vile, and/or reprehensible

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Boy's survival from flesh-eating bacteria deemed a miracle by his family - and the pope [View all] Angry Dragon Dec 2011 OP

I think that the doctors should be getting the credit EvolveOrConvolve Dec 2011 #1

From the article PADemD Dec 2011 #2

What did the dead woman do that the doctors didn't? ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #6

Doesn't matter WolverineDG Dec 2011 #11

Forget credit, what about the long term negative consequences? Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #14

What's with the "miracle = credit" stuff WolverineDG Dec 2011 #16

I would consider this a combination of good luck and good treatment LeftishBrit Dec 2011 #3

The media just eat up any story skepticscott Dec 2011 #4

Are there no depths to which the Roman Catholic Church will not sink? ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #5

"The doctors went through every avenue they could to save his life and he survived." frebrd Dec 2011 #7

This is a great tried and true example of how the Catholic church corrupts, moobu2 Dec 2011 #8

What an insult to the doctors treating the kid. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #9

Sounds pretty miraculous. i.e no other readily available explanation Starboard Tack Dec 2011 #10

Miraculous implies a supernatural explanation, its remarkable, to be sure... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #15

This is related to the prayer cloth scam TV evangelists moobu2 Dec 2011 #12

I see what the vatican did there and I'm going to learn from it. deacon_sephiroth Dec 2011 #13