It is amazing to get a sense of the depth of her understanding of the world, that almost completely entered her consciousness through her fingers alone. It’s tempting, but I can’t use the word miraculous to describe it. Instead it is a mind-blowing testament to the human spirit.

http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/04/28/catholic-di-author-weighs-in-on-salvation/

I wrote on this years ago, and through God’s grace and prayer, Frances has also made salvation for ALL known as a truth of Catholic teaching. Thank you, Holiness!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/pope-francis-good-atheists_n_3320757.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

In other states leopards go after humans, why? Turns out that when leopards are hunted, they turn on their hunters. When a rural province decided that leopards were dangerous and had to be eradicated from the environment, deaths by leopard spiked big time and the number of leopards didn’t diminish. For every one killed another one took it’s place, with a vengeance. The new arrival will tend to be less familiar with the territory handed to it and will see anything of the right size as a meal, including humans. Leopards that grew up near humans will be accustomed to them and tend to avoid interaction with humans.
By now the anti-leopard policy is in the process of being relaxed.

What amazed me was the “urban leopard”. Mumbai, the fourth largest city of the world, has the highest concentration of leopards by far in all of India. They mainly live on the stray dogs there, “one dog a week keeps a leopard healthy and sleek”.

LEAP’s mission statement could easily be rewritten for leopard policies in the parts of India where leopards pose a “problem”.
Invest heavily in eradicating something that is inextricably linked to society and you may very well take down society along with it.
Same thing with the microbes we live in symbiosis with.

Alas, it’s not that simple. Reading just two books will not reveal the truth on a subject as abstract as that contained in self-proclaimed holy books. Indeed, thousands of books have been written to supplement our many holy books and yet nothing (beyond secular history) has been proven to be true in any of them. Moreover, the supernatural claims made in “scriptures” can be found, virtually without exception, in earlier texts, raising the question of whether any of it was “revealed” by a divine deity or merely adopted from earlier popular stories. Accordingly, “read both books and decide which makes more sense” merely sidesteps the possibility that both are mere fictional nonsense.