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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 06:33 AM
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"It's a miracle!" Air France jet explodes....
On the news this morning, the reporter said, "Some people are calling it a miracle." (the fact that everyone on board the plane survived.) An Air France spokesperson said, "It is *not* a miracle. The Air France staff did exactly what they were trained to do...clear the plane in less than 90 seconds."

Note: I think it took longer than 90 seconds, but I loved this smackdown of those who will cry God performed another miracle!
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 08:00 AM
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1. Exactly. Give credit
where credit is due.
I hate hearing someone thank god for their loved one's life in a hospital after a team of surgeons and nurses spent 10 hours in surgery.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 09:42 AM
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2. Well, clearly
god was acting through the doctors and nurses. :eyes: Didn't you learn anything in Sunday school? :evilgrin:
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 09:58 AM
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3. Nah, I was usually
in the bathroom smoking doobage.

(kidding, of course)

(about Sunday school, I mean. I never went)
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 09:59 AM
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4. God tosses lightning bolts at airliners for sport
One would think the omnipotent creator of the universe would have better aim.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 10:05 AM
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5. I'm waiting for that one....
"GAWD's hand was shore on them peoples on that aero-plane! Even iffn it WAS a Frenchy aero-plane!"

"Oh? Then tell me why He found it nessecary, in His infinite Wisdom, to smnack 'em with a lightning bolt before he 'saved' them all?"

And I guess he was too busy saving the airline passengers to lend a hand to 20-odd US Marines?
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LisaLynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 04:30 PM
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7. Because they were French, I bet this won't be a "miracle" ...
Edited on Thu Aug-04-05 04:30 PM by LisaLynne
the same way that prayer thing failing to kill a Supreme didn't make a blip with them. It's all in the selective believing.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 04:04 PM
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6. "There was no deity involved, Mr. Scott"
"It was my cross-circuit to selector B that recovered them."
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 07:46 PM
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8. Praise Jebus, it's a miracle!
And if they all had died what would it have been then? When some live they say it was a miracle and "God was with us", but does that mean God wasn't with those who died? Did God hate the ones who burned to death in the explosion, or did they just not pray hard enough? Perhaps they were behind on their tithes to the church. :eyes:

What a bunch of silliness.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:21 AM
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9. Grrrr
It's a miracle that all of them survived. Just like it would have been a miracle if only a few had died. Or a miracle if half survived. Or a goddamn bloody fucking miracle if only a little 2-month-old baby had survived but the rest died in burning agony.

Even if everyone had died (and for the record, I'm very glad & impressed by the Air France crew that no one did), it would have been a miracle that no one else on the ground was hurt.

When you get to decide what constitutes a miracle, you'll be surprised at how many you can find.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 10:52 PM
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10. The Daily Show did a great one on the "miracle".
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 11:49 PM
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11. Thank you!!!!
That was great!

"If anything, god tried to KILL these people!"

:rofl:
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