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Originally Posted by Botnst
An excellent review of the relationships between faith, reason and superstition, can be found here: Pope John Paul II: Faith and reason .
One may not wish to read a religionist perspective, but to ignore it is to hobble on one leg not recognizing why one plods so. |
Mr. Wojtyła's tsunami of balderdash can safely be ignored without any perceptible loss. H.L. Mencken describes this sort of thing as "the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing" What is worth knowing, however, is that according to the Vatican guidelines on exorcism issued in 1999, “the person who claims to be possessed must be evaluated by doctors to rule out a mental or physical illness.”