(August 10, 2017 at 11:09 am)Cecelia Wrote:(August 10, 2017 at 10:24 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I've had discussions here before about the miracle of the sun. I find it very convincing and impossible to explain away as something other than a supernatural phenomenon. Someone here even said it was a conspiracy by the government (who was somehow able to predict that the sun would do weird things on that day at that time, months ahead of time) and they had the kids involved.
Except the sun didn't do weird things.
If the sun started doing weird things, everyone on earth (at least where the sun was out) would see it. Yet that's not what happened. It was a localized event--which points to no supernatural cause. If I said last night that the moon started flying around spelling out "OBEY THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER" you would think me nuts. If 100 other people then said they saw it too, but didn't see what it spelled, you'd think something was going on. But you wouldn't say it was a miracle from the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And if the church of the flying spaghetti monster confirmed the event, you still wouldn't believe it. Because there were still people on earth who didn't see anything, despite the fact we all see the same moon and if it started moving it would be noticed by everyone.
Well, no; see, the fact that not everyone saw the same thing - including and especially nothing at all - proves that it was a miracle. Otherwise everyone would have seen it and agreed to what they saw. Clearly the miracle wasn't for everyone; only those who wanted to witness it.
Right, CL?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
