(November 2, 2016 at 4:18 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 4:04 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I was being a bit snarky. The reason some people "see" these "miracles" can easily be explained by the mass hysteria and ocular effects of staring at the sun. Not everyone is going to stare at the sun at exactly the same time for the same length of time, so obviously not everyone would do it long enough for their eyes to start going screwy.
But all the thousands of people it did happen to, had it happen at the exact same time. Which just so happened to be the time scheduled by the kids. And not a single one of them was like "yeah you know, I think I saw some weird lighting and some movement but it could have just been an illusion due to my tired eyes and bright lights." No one said that. You would think that's the first thing one of the skeptics would have said. Whatever happened had to have been convincing enough that no one who saw it questioned it as merely a hallucination or optical effect.
How do you explain the many people that were there, that did not see a thing?
Some of them were believers.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
