Originally Posted by
Mucker
1) True, and that's probably why "statistically" a lot more fathers than priests have been shown to be paedophiles. My argument does indeed "statistically" hold water for the very simply reason that what I said is true.
Eh, no, that's not statistics. If 1000 people a day drive a car of which 10 die and 10 people a day fly a plane of which 2 die - well, more people die driving a car, however "statistically" you are more likely to die flying a plane.
Originally Posted by
Mucker
2) Frankly I couldn't care less about Padre Pio - I simply questioned a claim that he shot himself through the hand during post office robberies. But I would love to know your source for the "well known fact" that his wounds were self inflicted. I have no information either way but it seems strange that the church is now making an exhibition of him if they have come to realise he was a fraud. So your source would be interesting.
Ah come on, seriously now. It's not 1920 anymore, tell me which is more believable that he created the wounds himself or that some supernatural creature did it to him?? As for my source, well there was a book written on it last year by some Italian researcher using Vatican Records which pretty much proved the case. It also had interviews in it with a local village girl and a pharmacist who were secretly supplying him with carbolic acid.
As for the church, well for a start they banned him from saying mass and ever since a succession of Popes have distanced themselves from him.
Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.