notes from underground

Apparently the Vatican is preparing a beatification of a religious figure of the 19th century from Cuba who was responsible for a what the Vatican pronounced as a miracle in which a young girl in 1999, the 20th century, was miraculously saved from certain death due to an inoperable stomach tumor.

This was certainly an isolated incident and did not involve  any routine “miracles” being performed by this religious figure on a regular basis.  In fact, alternative, underground healers really receive no respect from the medical field and no religious person would trust themselves or a loved one with one of these people over a standard hospital in most cases.  If in fact this religious figure had a lifelong resume of healing people of cancer or life threatening diseases and in fact people were being healed routinely then I would say that is something quite remarkable and warrants attention.  But that was not the case.

So by proceeding with this, the Vatican is at bottom endorsing alternative, underground healing which is  seedy and really not well accepted today, and not only that, but making a mountain out a of a molehill of a single, isolated, rather random, chance, occurrence.   And I can’t help to think to myself, how perverse that those kind of declarations are made from the Vatican and equally as perverse that people eat this up without thinking twice.   The pope could declare just about anything a miracle and people would endorse it immediately without a second thought.

The fact that such nonsense is sowed  today still is bothersome and that it is coming from one of the highest authorities.  And perhaps a quote by Einstein is in order, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”  I must also claim myself to be in the company of Goethe due to his declaration that the cross is one of the things he cannot endure or as Hawkeye stated regularly in The Last of the Mohicans, “I am a man without a cross.”