Pope Francis vs. the Cure of Reason
A crippled girl sought the Pope’s blessing on his U.S. visit, hoping for miracle cure. But science and technology right now are helping the lame to walk and the blind to see. It’s these achievers who deserve parades and adulation!
Faith is easy....
We see how the math works out.
Old dino would be age 6 and I was reminded that, as a kid, I fully expected mankind to be expanded across the solar system by now.
During the 60s a book and a movie predicted we could at least have human beings reaching Jupiter by 2001.
That also goes for cell phones inspired by hand held Star Trek communicators. Ha! Read that factoid some place wherever.
From a real-world point of view, it shows how bad we are at predicting technologies just 25 years in the future. We now imagine computers becoming self-aware in our life time but other things like drastically slowing aging or establishing a large colony in space as being in the distant future. New technologies will surprise us and make our modern notions of the future look silly.
Government needs to get out of the way. It takes about 400 days to get a new medicine or technique tested and approved in Europe, here it is more than 2500 days.
Then there is the pope. Never mind.
if the world reserves enthusiasm and praise for the creators and achievers then there is no hope for power for the mooches and looters.
Excellent article. Thanks.
Americans give more of their personal wealth to charity than all of the other developed nations combined. However, the MSM conveniently ignore that fact, and instead count only the contributions by governments, chastising us that we're too greedy.
They would be giving away their wealth and have no way of replacing it other than donations from their member/followers.
So it would be a one-shot deal with no staying power. If they thought they could replenish that wealth with donations from their followers, they'd be able to give most of their cash flow TO the 'poor' Today... but they don't.
So, it's kind of logical to say that the Catholic Church, the pope and all the rest of that 'system' is operating an organization with excessive overhead and other internal costs.
Which, after a few thousand years of operation, is pretty sad, isn't it, from a libertarian/capitalist's point of view.... isn't it?
If you aren't just say thank you and worry about the insurance part. I think that system was invented by some secular anti-christ.
The "insurance" line seems to refer to the sophistry that even if you are not a "Believer" you should do what you're told "just in case" -- with no guidance on how to buy such "insurance" for the infinity of conflicting imaginable "possibilities".