Let me whisper this from the back of the crowd gathering for the celebrations in Rome: miracles don't happen. Fine as metaphor, rubbish as fact. Say what you like about the qualities of Mother Mary MacKillop, she's not out there somewhere doing magic tricks for the living.
"Mary quite contrary, how miracles grow"
"Mary quite contrary, how miracles grow"
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"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: "Mary quite contrary, how miracles grow"
What a sad way to promote your religion on the back of random recovery from illness. All that happens is the equivalent to someone winning the lottery and somehow it is god. Its never the doctors and researchers that treat people is it?
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I'd like to see Mary M cure a few amputees.
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Sounds to me like another form of necromancy.
Just because more people believe Jesus is the son of God and not the son of Satan does not make it any truer.
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The only Christian response I have found to amputees has been, "why should he?".
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One of the students in my maths class headed off to Rome yesterday for the canonisation... 
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Is there for honest poverty
That hangs his heid and a' that
The coward slave, we pass him by
We dare be puir for a' that.
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That hangs his heid and a' that
The coward slave, we pass him by
We dare be puir for a' that.
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Re: "Mary quite contrary, how miracles grow"
But prayer is good for the economy and tourism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Lourdes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Lourdes
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