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    Religion confused me...

    Pope Francis has stopped his car as it left the airport in Philadelphia to bless a child in a wheelchair.

    The Pontiff kissed the head of 10-year-old Michael Keating and shook hands with family members.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34370446

    What is the Pope supposedly achieving? Has he got special powers to "fix" this poor boy? Or is he just trying to point the boy out to God because he's probably so busy he's not noticed the boy needs some attention? Or is something else going on?

    Confused!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34370446

    What is the Pope supposedly achieving? Has he got special powers to "fix" this poor boy? Or is he just trying to point the boy out to God because he's probably so busy he's not noticed the boy needs some attention? Or is something else going on?

    Confused!
    Simple human compassion perhaps?
    Last edited by wayzim; 27-Sep-2015 at 02:36 PM. Reason: B'cuz

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