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Dear Is Mise,

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You wrote :

« One could call Lourdes a miracle of job creation!! »
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Yes, it’s a very lucrative business.

The multitude of vendors of religious paraphernalia, souvenirs, baubles and trinkets that are to be found at Lourdes reminds me of the story of Jesus and the merchants at the Temple of Jerusalem :

« And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves » — (Matthew 21:12–13).

And I can’t help thinking of those millions of pilgrims playing the last card in their crippled hands, after all else has failed … at Lourdes … waiting for the miracle to come :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EDKvXRKd0

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Dear david f,

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Thank you for introducing me to Nicholas of Cusa. He certainly seems to be an interesting person. I'm not sure what he means by "learned ignorance" but it's worth investigating.

I see that he is also considered to be a precersor of 18th century pandeism.

I'll check it out.

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Dear Banjo Paterson,

One useful source for philosophy and philosophers is

https://stanford.library.sydney.edu.au/contents.html

You may already use it.

david f,

<<Please cite any comment I have made against God. I have never said anything against fairies, unicorns, Santa Claus, elves, griffins, Satan, God, Harry Potter or any other creation of the human imagination.>>

There you go again with your Appeal to Ridicule Fallacy: See: http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/42/Appeal-to-Ridicule

Here you ridicule God by associating Him with fairies, unicorns, Santa Clause, elves, griffins,Satan, Harry Potter or any other creation of human imagine.

Ridicule is 'the subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behaviour' (Oxford Living Dictionaries 2019. s.v. ridicule).

That's what you have done with regard to God and thus have committed this fallacious reasoning.

ALTRAV,

<<OzSpen, don't be precocious and petulant.
You know full well your question has no objective answer.
It therefore leaves the way open for a subjective answer.>>

Would you please back quote so I know what statements you refer to?