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To: RVN Airplane Driver
I think she was cured by the “tooth fairy”...who can prove me wrong? Not pontificate....real proof..

Article XVII.a of the "Document Prohibiting Intervention of Subtheistic Entities Upon the Entreaty of Prayers of Omnipotence (whether by Self or Agents)" clearly restricts areas of operations by such entities as fairies or bunnies (Nymphae Dentis or Cuniculi Paschae) to the areas for which they are popularly or traditionally recognized, and in which operations are achieved through their own abilities, and not through direct Divine intervention (as opposed to the regular operations of Divine Providential Augmentation as supports all operations in Nature), that their actions may not exhibit qualities which would cause them to be attributed to the proper operations as limited to God Himself (e.g., revivification, healing, creation ex nihilo), causing a fatal misapprehension and a confusion between the Creator and the creature.

The document does not, of course, forbid intervention of subtheistic supernaturals in areas of healing or otherwise miraculous events (which power they do not have anyway and cannot exhibit unless God, by direct fiat, grants it through them as His agents), but rather forbids finite intelligences (human or otherwise) from attributing such actions to superhuman (but subDivine) creatures themselves which are in fact the proper operations of the Omnipotence.

There is, of course, as far as I know, no such document as described above (it's entirely possible that St. Thomas Aquinas may have addressed a similar matter in his immense Summa, which I hope to finish reading before I die, as afterwards I shall undoubtedly be otherwise occupied), but: Issue a silly and frivolous challenge, get a silly, frivolous and verbose reply.

I myself would side with the above poster who noted that Pius (a real person whose existence is undoubted) was approached for prayers to God for His intervention, and that such intervention was apparently achieved, with the simplest explanation being that the prayers of Pius "worked," with no need to invoke tooth fairies, Easter Bunnies, or six-foot-tall invisible rabbits named Harvey (Santa Claus, AKA St. Nicholas of Myra, is another matter, he being recognized as a legitimate saint, whose prayers to God may be considered as efficacious).

One might, of course, attribute all this to "coincidence," a word which actually explains nothing but simply gainsays other explanations inconvenient to the arguer--but, as a chain of entreaty has been offered, and the thing asked for granted, the burden of proof to the contrary rests, I believe, with you.

I could, of course, be wrong. It has been a long time since I studied formal logic.

8 posted on 07/03/2011 7:09:47 AM PDT by Dunstan McShane
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To: Dunstan McShane

So, if I understand correctly, you don’t need to invoke tooth fairies, Easter Bunnies, or six-foot-tall invisible rabbits named Harvey - you have dead popes.

Will
Please pray that I can be healed from my tongue being planted firmly in my cheek.


9 posted on 07/03/2011 11:33:35 AM PDT by will of the people
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