Quote Originally Posted by GiGi View Post
In today's real world we don't need a miracle to prevent or cure leprosy. We have psychiatric medications that treat mental illness instead of prayers to cast out demons. We use drugs to control epilepsy, not exorcism. We use antipyretics for fevers. We understand and cope with a variety of plagues head-on. We don't cower in caves as we await judgement!
Your Pope(s) seem afraid of the real world. Maybe they should just stay out of it!!!
There are new leprosies, ones not so easily cured by medication. Even if medications may treat some illnesses, nobody is immortal. The only immortality one can hope for is found in a noble character, in fulfilling as one is capable to affect goodness. However, such ideals seem fantasy, and it is in Christ where the checks and balances are maintained. What is your gospel? Is it to create a political utopia? The Pope's role is to guide the sheep of Christ. Hence, he could no more "stay out of it" than to commit suicide just for your idealized new "reality." Is this your ultimate answer? That us Christians would be better off dead and out of your way from gaining your ideal utopia?