Pope Says That Technology Cannot Replace God

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Silmarunya

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Gravity powerful? So powerful the tiny magnetic field of a fridge magnet can overpower the gravitational field of an entire planet :p

On a more serious note: of course technology can't replace God. Technology is real, God is a belief (or rather a delusion).

I'd think the church had more important things to do than this. For starters, punishing the paedophiles in the church (and no, shipping them of to a nice monastery in southern France with about $3000 a month doesn't count).
 

jimsmith59

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oh so he stands by scientific theory now? i thought religion didn't believe in scientific theories like the theory of gravity or the theory of evolution
 

wishmaster12

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True science cannot replace God, but science can help understand God, and his very existance, by proof. Either by science, or by other things.
 
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"he Pope gave a sermon on how man must not believe that technology can grant him the powers of God."

You mean like the power to stop starvation, natural disasters, general suffering? "God" doesn't use those powers anyway. "He" only doodles pictures of the virgin mother on chips, potatoes, sandwiches, trees, etc. Technology could do that with a laser and it would actually look like someone instead of a random blob.
 

wishmaster12

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he Pope gave a sermon on how man must not believe that technology can grant him the powers of God."

Thats like saying no matter how much i love my ipad it will never grant me power
 

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" He also pointed to the recent tragic natural disasters as reminders that mankind is not all-powerful." ...so is he saying that god caused the disasters? Why does he rely on technology to protect him in the pope-mobile, and not just his belief?
 

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I'm surprised he didn't complain about how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have broken the first commandment by raising themselves up to such an influence that they draw worship away from the lord.
 
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