Don't believe in miracles? Then what do you call this?

[RobJohnson]

At first I thought it was going to be a thread about the Cubs winning a game....but I was wrong...

Brigid (1000+ posts)        Mon May-25-09 12:25 AM
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Don't believe in miracles? Then what do you call this?
 Earlier this evening I had a wonderful experience that gives me an idea why. I missed Mass this morning, so I went to another one at a different parish this evening instead. It is staffed by the Franciscans. A franciscan sister, Sister Barbara, was there, telling us about her work many years ago in Papua New Guinea. She said her work most consisted of teaching the Gospel to women and girls. She was needed in that role because in that culture it is not considered worth the trouble to educate them. She said they wanted her to teach them the Gospel so that they could in turn teach their people. An elementary school, high school, and even college were established. When she returned briefly a decade later, she found that the girls she had taught were teachers, nurses, and even missionaries by that time. She called it a "miracle," and she was exactly right.

 

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Kali  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-25-09 01:45 AM
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2. I call that missionizing.
 It's not particularly miraculous - in fact it is rather common and there is a viewpoint that the practice is culturally destructive. I won't go quite so far to say it is all bad but... no I don't think that is even close to miraculous, sorry.

GoddessOfGuinness  (1000+ posts)        Mon May-25-09 01:59 AM
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3. Successful conversion with an emphasis on the "con"?
 I kind of miss the headhunters.

 

Lorien  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-25-09 02:08 AM
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4. Sounds like the modern world made it to Papua New Guinea
 kinda tough for it not to, what with the availability of technology.

No, I still don't believe in "miracles".

It's a miracle that most DUmmies have not had their ass kicked. 
 


 


 

[The Village Idiot]

Kali  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-25-09 01:45 AM
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2. I call that missionizing.
 It's not particularly miraculous - in fact it is rather common and there is a viewpoint that the practice is culturally destructive. I won't go quite so far to say it is all bad but... no I don't think that is even close to miraculous, sorry

Hey Kali Dummy. Don't you think that if a culture that is backwards learns to move forward and they stop eating each other, that this is a good thing? No?/ Oh, thats cultural destruction. So your one of those idiots who think a tribe of cannibals and western society are equal? or even superior to the west??

Your a moron. Like an old book said "There is a big difference between putting a man on the moon and putting a bone through your nose" but Kali probably doesn't think so.

[Carl]

If the story had been that they had taught liberal feminisim and now they were all spreading that it would have received hundreds of recs.

Just imagine the applause at the DUmp if they had set up an abortion clinic there.

[RobJohnson]

If the story had been that they had taught liberal feminisim and now they were all spreading that it would have received hundreds of recs.

Just imagine the applause at the DUmp if they had set up an abortion clinic there.

Both would be hailed as a miracle! Stupid ****ers...