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October 16th, 2012
11:38 PM ET
Boy helps Native American become saint(CNN)–Native American Kateri Tekakwitha is going to be canonized after she was credited with saving a boy's life.
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Good for her, Native Americans never get any recognition, they have been treated as the forgotten
minority in this country, and the one minority that realy deserves recognition, its thier land
in the first place, but you dont see them demanding things like other minorities here in the US.
I'm half Cherokee myself.
This article is sort of ridiculous. This is not the first Native American to become a Saint, nor will it likely be the last. To use her ethnicity as a point is stupid...people from every race can convert to becoming a Catholic. It has no bearing on if she was granted special or preferential treatment to advancing to Sainthood, she had to go through the same steps as everyone else. Would be better to note 'Boy helps local historical figure become a saint', because thats all that this really is.
nicely done vat. you attempt to exterminate my ancestory and think making one of my own "a saint" in your bs religion is going to change anything?
YOU PEOPLE TRIED TO EXTERMINATE US!
we lived in peace with our other tribes with only occational fighting.
i'm lakota and i will not forgive you.
Hi WASP. I have never understood the christian belief that they are superior to all, and just commited genocide at will, calling it "gods will." It has always made me sick at heart and turned me away form these 'god freaks.'
Didn't get the oppurtunity before, so I'll say, "Thanks for your service, comrade." Be well, buddy.
I dont blame you man, the hurt must run deep. But remember it wasnt the white people today who did this ( I am one and am ashamed of my ancestors behavior), in fact none of us were alive when these atrocities occured
I know you still suffer huge problems with racism- there are a lot whites who want to fight along side you to eliminate this.
the Vatican needs to stop disrespecting people. do they really think making one woman a saint is going to forgive the countless lives of the native Americans they took; that doing this is going to mend the bonds you shattered through their genocide?
i do not approve, they turned Brigid into a saint as well. this is the strategy to win over the native population, like they did with the Irish, the fact remains Christians and Catholics are responsible for the genocide of the people.
well if not forgetting, Mother Teresa had hard time to get sainthood, Vatican phony frauds.
We should all just be very happy this little boy is fine now and growing up ! I am not a Catholic, but I do have respect for other Christians, other people, and this is one time to say something congratulatory to this young man and his mother, for having shown a kind of faith that most of us are incapable of.
What kind of nonsense comments have been written here! Why can't we just be thankful that one boy is now strong and vibrant, regardless whether you believe in science or religion, and send uplifting comments to him.
God loves him and his mom always! Have a wonderful trip, Jake ! What a great mom you have, too !
Actually, the whips and burns and self-cutting text came from wikipedia. It's true: she was severely masochistic, a VERY weird person and not an example for anyone to follow.
If that qualifies for sainthood, and get me some handcuffs and leather, because it's beatitude time!
After killing millions of indigenous people in the name of catholicism in the middle age, they resolve making Pocahontas a saint. LOL!. (still trying to find out how they proclaim someone a saint)
Its a long process that requires an extreme amount of work first on the local level by followers or believers in the holyness of the person in question. Then there need to be at least two miracles before someone is proclaimed a saint. Medical miracles are the easiest to attribute to miracle, rather than something else, but sometimes the other things can qualify. It's really not hard to find out the process, just search google.
Prayer changes things
Prayer is okay, but whips and burns turn me on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKAW96N-Vms&feature=fvst
I'm sorry, "Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things", but your assertions regarding atheism and prayer are unfounded. Using my Idiomatic Expression Equivalency module, the expression that best matches the degree to which your assertions may represent truths is: "TOTAL FAIL".
I see that you repeat these unfounded statements with high frequency. Perhaps the following book can help you:
I'm Told I Have Dementia: What You Can Do... Who You Can Turn to...
by the Alzheimer's Disease Society
Prayer does not; you are such a LIAR. You have NO proof it changes anything! A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work and their children died. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested.
An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!
"Ronald Regonzo" who degenerates to:
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"another repentant sinner" degenerates to:
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"tina" degenerates to:
"captain america" degenerates to:
"Atheist Hunter" degenerates to:
"Anybody know how to read? " degenerates to:
"just sayin" degenerates to:
"Kindness" degenerates to:
"Chad" degenerates to
"Bob" degenerates to
"nope" degenerates to:
"2357" degenerates to:
"WOW" degenerates to:
"fred" degenerates to:
"!" degenerates to:
"pervert alert"
This troll is not a christian:..
"Tekakwitha met Marie-Thérèse Tegaiaguenta for the first time in the spring of 1678. Aspiring to devotion, they began to practice mutual flagellation in secret. Cholenec wrote that Catherine could flog herself between one thousand and twelve hundred blows in one session. Tekakwitha's dedication to ritual mortification became more intense and consuming over the remainder of her life; she included prolonged fasting, flogging, cutting, sleeping on a bed of thorns, and burning herself with hot coals."
LMAO – mostly at the moniker.
crack that whip
give the past the slip
step on a crack
break your momma's back
when a problem comes along
you must whip it
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into shape
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go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
when a good time turns around
you must whip it
you will never live it down
unless you whip it
no one gets away
until they whip it
i say whip it
whip it good
i say whip it
whip it good
crack that whip
give the past the slip
step on a crack
break your momma's back
when a problem comes along
you must whip it
before the cream sits out too long
you must whip it
when something's going wrong
you must whip it
now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
Rome needs to learn that correlation is not causation.
heresy!!!!
Ah yes, good old St. Killed-By-Diseases-After-Enslavement-By-Priests
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