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“God is not a magician, with a magic wand”: Pope Francis schools creationists (Salon)
Salon ^ | 10/28/14 | Sarah Gray

Posted on 10/28/2014 3:19:32 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

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To: Faith Presses On
In an exciting declaration, Pope Francis I stated that God should not seen as a “magician with a magic wand

Oh yes he should you faker...He can turn you into a frog just by thinking it...

21 posted on 10/28/2014 3:39:43 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: txrefugee

Beg your pardon!


22 posted on 10/28/2014 3:40:19 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: skeeter

It happens a lot.


23 posted on 10/28/2014 3:41:20 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: skeeter

You are going to believe salon?


24 posted on 10/28/2014 3:41:43 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
Salon is a leftist rag, I wouldn't subscribe.

Did the Pope say these things?

25 posted on 10/28/2014 3:42:43 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Faith Presses On

I believe this is true because I know that the pope, as were all his predecessors, is a fraud.

Yet millions still pack the vatican to look at their savior on the balcony.

And they say that idolatry is a sin?

The RCC removed the commandment to not make graven images. Gee, I wonder why?

The pope is a useless tool of the Left, always has been always will be. I suggest that Catholics drop pope worship and turn their sights on God.

Or not.

It really is not my concern. I pray directly to God in Jesus’ name. What a novel idea...


26 posted on 10/28/2014 3:43:46 PM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: Faith Presses On

Lighten up, Francis.


27 posted on 10/28/2014 3:44:21 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Faith Presses On

Make up your mind Pope. I thought he was all powerful.


28 posted on 10/28/2014 3:45:59 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOPe has to EARN my support and not blame me for their loss.)
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To: Faith Presses On

He needs to do less talking and more praying.


29 posted on 10/28/2014 3:47:57 PM PDT by uptowngirl
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To: Faith Presses On

I don’t know, maybe I have low standards, but creating the entire known universe out of something smaller than a mustard seed (and creating the mustard seed, too) seems rather magical to me. Creating life from inorganic chemicals, directing history, etc. just adds to the wonder.

Maybe he expects making a woman out of a man, or splitting the sea, or ... oh, wait.

I’m Jewish, so I look at God as being the ultimate magician (and everything else). Do Catholics have a different view of things, or is it just that this Pope is as Catholic as Obama is American?


30 posted on 10/28/2014 3:53:50 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22God%22+not+a+magician

Some of the sources reporting this:

The Independent, NPR, Rawstory, MSNBC, Gawker, The Washington Post, Patheos, The Times of India, NBC News, News.com.au, International Business Times, Thestar.com, etc.


31 posted on 10/28/2014 3:55:05 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: jwalsh07
The author is a putz. Galileo was never ex-communicated. Copernicus, a Catholic Priest, developed heliocentricity and was never disciplined for it at all by the Church. Journalism sucks.

And the Big Bang theory was developed by a catholic priest who believed it helped describe Genesis. Many other scientists derided him at the time.

32 posted on 10/28/2014 3:55:08 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Desolation, meet Abomination.


33 posted on 10/28/2014 3:57:04 PM PDT by ggrrrrr23456
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To: skeeter

Pope Francis, if God doesn’t do magic, then what is a miracle? Did Jesus not do magic either? Turning water into wine and making the blind see healing the sick and feeding thousands with a loaf of bread and a fish weren’t exactly done through the application of science.


34 posted on 10/28/2014 3:57:24 PM PDT by babygene
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To: Faith Presses On

What is wrong with this guy? It seems like he is in the wrong profession since it appears he is not a Christian and does not believe the Bible..


35 posted on 10/28/2014 3:57:31 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: txrefugee
The pope does not believe the Bible.

Then the pope is a false prophet.

36 posted on 10/28/2014 3:58:41 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: babygene

Calling a ‘miracle’ magic sounds almost like scoffing.


37 posted on 10/28/2014 4:00:14 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: sharkhawk

So true. Monsignor Georges Lemaitre was derided by secularists because his theory was a creation event.


38 posted on 10/28/2014 4:00:15 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: babygene

It seems like if the truth were told, he is like the mainline Protestants who don’t believe in miracles or the supernatural, and for that matter, the existence of God Himself.


39 posted on 10/28/2014 4:01:34 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Ancesthntr

Magicians are illusionists. God is a Creator. Ex nihlo type.


40 posted on 10/28/2014 4:02:17 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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