Hand Waving

Catholic priests warned priests in South Africa not to be...uh...priests:

Southern Africa's Catholic bishops have warned priests to stop moonlighting as witchdoctors, fortune tellers and traditional healers, and to rely on Christ for miracles.

"The belief that ancestors are endowed with supernatural powers borders on idolatry. It is God, and God alone, who is all-powerful while the ancestors are created by him," said the pastoral letter to priests issued earlier this month.

Let's try a little experiment:

"The belief that a giant, omnipotent, omniscient man lives in the sky borders on heresy. It is our ancestors, and they alone, who are the source of spiritual power, while this "God" was created by man."

See how that works? The self-righteous sometimes need a little nudge to remind them that man has created hundreds of religions, and they're nearly all based around one abiding principle: The Golden Rule. All the rest is just window dressing created by the priests and shamans for the purpose of increasing their foot traffic.

But as Mr. Heinlein said, it's great work if you can come by it.