Power of Prayer in the form of the Catholic Rosary

[MikeyLove]

Here's an article I read on Facebook:

Saint Michaels Angels

YOU'VE GOTTA READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I promise you WONT be disapointed......

Evidence:"During the Second World War atomic bombs were dropped on two Japanese cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An extraordinary thing happened at both sites. A unique group of men survived a nuclear blast that killed nearly all other people even at over ten times further from the blast.

Quoted Text Truncated: Source Link: http://www.pdtsigns.com/hirosh.html

[csb999]

the level of delusion is astonishing , a complete fabrication in everything . That anyone can even post something so absurd is perhaps some sort of moral lesson . Sanity is quite optional , possibly unnecessary .

[csb999]

it is unfortunate for all of us that the principal organized system of ethics is conditional upon and irrevocably tied to believing in absurd mediaeval fantasies .

[bankside]

This is less an example of God's grace in saving the Jesuits, and more about God's cruelty in allowing the rest of the residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima to have their lungs filled with fire and their skulls crushed and their limbs torn off by a million degree blast wave, only to finish dying by being crushed under a heap of rubble.

Clearly Go has not understood the lesson of compassion his son Jesus was supposedly sent to teach.

[FirmaFan]

This is a wonderful example of conformation bias, where a presupposed truth is confirmed by data that has been selectively favored to supported the already held belief. It is remembering the "hits" and forgetting the "misses", and is exactly what the article in the OP demonstrates. The survival of the priests is made to seem like a unique event, when, in reality, there were people far closer to the epicenter that survived as well.

The state of the building itself seems widely exaggerated as well, considering this is what was left of it:

http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/imgCont...0708160004.jpg

There is talk of Hubert Schiffer surviving without any effects of radiation sickness, but there is no mention of the condition of any of the other priests who survived - some did exhibit and eventually die from radiation sickness.

And then there is the problem bankside brought up - if god was able to save the lives of 8 priests, that means he was also capable of saving the lives of the scores of children who were completely innocent to any of the events of WWII, but deliberately chose NOT to save them. If I were to accept the article posted in the OP as true, I would be completely disinclined to worship the god who would save the lives of 8 men because they prayed around a rosary, and allowed young children to die or suffer the devastating effects of radiation sickness.

[MikeyLove]

the level of delusion is astonishing , a complete fabrication in everything . That anyone can even post something so absurd is perhaps some sort of moral lesson . Sanity is quite optional , possibly unnecessary .

What is so absurd about what happened to those 8 Jesuit Priests? For a few moments, place yourself in their shoes and get an idea on how they have felt before, during, and after the Atomic Blast.

[Nemothepanda]

I think innocent women and children are more deserving on being protected than eight old men with the intent on changing the beliefs of the local population.

[MikeyLove]

I think innocent women and children are more deserving on being protected than eight old men with the intent on changing the beliefs of the local population.

Read the article again and you will see why they came out of that ball of fire...Now, if the entire Population was as faithful to the call of the message of fatima, they too would have been saved from the Atomic Blast.

[bankside]

What an ugly idea.

[zoltanspawn]

Proud, vicious, tribalistic and ignorant.

Where is the god that loves all his children?

[bankside]

No one said God was kind, reasonable, or fair. Oh wait....

[Rickrock]

Thank you MikeyLove for an interesting mystery. Maybe someday we will be able to figure out how God did that.

[Nemothepanda]

Or God could be nice and protect innocent bystanders for being innocent bystanders.

[FirmaFan]

Read the article again and you will see why they came out of that ball of fire...Now, if the entire Population was as faithful to the call of the message of fatima, they too would have been saved from the Atomic Blast.

The implication that innocent children were deserving of the blast because they were not "as faithful to the call of the message of fatima" is disgusting.

[MikeyLove]

The implication that innocent children were deserving of the blast because they were not "as faithful to the call of the message of fatima" is disgusting.

Go to a Catholic Theologian, and ask him what he thinks of the article.

[johaninsc]

Go to a Catholic Theologian, and ask him what he thinks of the article.

why?...a Catholic theologian would be biased; his answer would most certainly be in line with your beliefs on this matter

[zoltanspawn]

People make choices about the versions of history they choose to tell. (And for that matter, make choices about versions of all sorts of facts and fictions.)

In this case, we are being presented with a version of history that edits out the real suffering that people endured. Starvation, disfigurement, incineration, agonizing burns, blindness, homelessness, disease, on and on. Moreover, the victims of the bombing are blamed for their incredible suffering because they were alien heathens. A miniature, select tribe is spared by this monster rendition of god.

These ideas are in and of themselves inflammatory.

I think if people have the temerity to lay blame on the terrible suffering these people and children endured they are culpable to give that suffering a good hard look. Did that child deserve to be brutalized? Did that impoverished idiot deserve her agony? Did that little old man deserve to be scorched alive?

This is one of the most mind-boggling and appalling visions of deity I've read recently. It's one of the most outrageously grotesque threads I've seen on JUB. And it's done more to lower my estimation of catholicism generally than anything heretofore. I have to remind myself that catholics may encounter officially sanctioned beliefs, but many individuals will reflect on them differently. I would like to believe there is a fair number who would disagree with both this ugly and disgusting version of their god and this absurd version of history.

The real story of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserves to be told, however repugnant and difficult that subject matter may be. Recreating the events to blame the victims is a sick theology. (AIDS is sanctioned by god on those who deserve it.) And revising history to ignore the real suffering of the innocent people who endured it is reminiscent of holocaust denial.

[bankside]

People make choices about the versions of history they choose to tell. (And for that matter, make choices about versions of all sorts of facts and fictions.)

In this case, we are being presented with a version of history that edits out the real suffering that people endured. Starvation, disfigurement, incineration, agonizing burns, blindness, homelessness, disease, on and on. Moreover, the victims of the bombing are blamed for their incredible suffering because they were alien heathens. A miniature, select tribe is spared by this monster rendition of god.

These ideas are in and of themselves inflammatory.

I think if people have the temerity to lay blame on the terrible suffering these people and children endured they are culpable to give that suffering a good hard look. Did that child deserve to be brutalized? Did that impoverished idiot deserve her agony? Did that little old man deserve to be scorched alive?

This is one of the most mind-boggling and appalling visions of deity I've read recently. It's one of the most outrageously grotesque threads I've seen on JUB. And it's done more to lower my estimation of catholicism generally than anything heretofore. I have to remind myself that catholics may encounter officially sanctioned beliefs, but many individuals will reflect on them differently. I would like to believe there is a fair number who would disagree with both this ugly and disgusting version of their god and this absurd version of history.

The real story of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserves to be told, however repugnant and difficult that subject matter may be. Recreating the events to blame the victims is a sick theology. (AIDS is sanctioned by god on those who deserve it.) And revising history to ignore the real suffering of the innocent people who endured it is reminiscent of holocaust denial.

I think it is, at heart, a faithful account of how most believers and theologians would describe the god they revere.

[Mariatenebre]

Read the article again and you will see why they came out of that ball of fire...Now, if the entire Population was as faithful to the call of the message of fatima, they too would have been saved from the Atomic Blast.

Yes the bullshit idea of your religion that if people convert to it they will be spared and that unbelievers deserve atrocitites that come to them.

These people survived as many do as a fluke. Plus there have been many Catholic Churches and people destroyed by natural and human disasters and your god wasn't there helping any of them.

Yet another example of the depravity of Christianity and why I support the Japanese in keeping it out of their country.

[zoltanspawn]

I think it is, at heart, a faithful account of how most believers and theologians would describe the god they revere.

That may be true, and it's shameful.

I've known a handful of Christians, though, whose thoughtfulness, care and loving makes me not want to condemn the lot.

(Same goes for atheists. ).