I've spoken before about a couple of hobby-xtian friends of mine, who used to belong to some local church thing before they decided the pastor was getting too preachy and catty. Anyway, in one of their misguided and doomed convert-the-heathen phases, they related to me one of these 'miracle' stories told them by this pastor.
Apparently, she was walking home one evening and was about to enter the obligatory dark alley, when she was set upon by a cookie-cutter gang of youths intent on doing her harm. All of a sudden, they stopped in their tracks, staring above her head with a look of terror, then fled as if chased by old Herbert from Family Guy. Since the laws of narrative imperative require satisfying closure, one of the gang was collared by a policeman who, remembering the script, asked what was going on 'ere then. It turns out that the ne'er-do-wells had seen a fiery angel standing in mid air over their intended victim's head, possibly with a sword or some other illegal weapon, and obviously this had scared them so badly they immediately turned to the lord etc etc.
Yes. I was impressed too.
Apparently, she was walking home one evening and was about to enter the obligatory dark alley, when she was set upon by a cookie-cutter gang of youths intent on doing her harm. All of a sudden, they stopped in their tracks, staring above her head with a look of terror, then fled as if chased by old Herbert from Family Guy. Since the laws of narrative imperative require satisfying closure, one of the gang was collared by a policeman who, remembering the script, asked what was going on 'ere then. It turns out that the ne'er-do-wells had seen a fiery angel standing in mid air over their intended victim's head, possibly with a sword or some other illegal weapon, and obviously this had scared them so badly they immediately turned to the lord etc etc.
Yes. I was impressed too.
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.'
