Apparitions from heaven???

[emjay]

IMO a conspiracy theory, no matter how big or involved it is, is always more plausible than the alternative of magic. Because it is earthly and known to be possible by known physical laws etc, however seemingly unlikely. So theists scoff at conspiracy theories, but they're still infinitely more probable, and thus rational, than magic as the answer.

I just don't see how a conspiracy like that could have been pulled off, as I explained to Poca. 

If I wasn't religious at all... actually, let's say I'm apathetic. 

If I was apathetic to religion in general, I would still at the very least think a conspiracy theory that panned out like that would be equal to or more unlikely than an actual supernatural occurrence having happened.

I'm not saying that I necessarily think this particular thing is a conspiracy, though I am leaning that way now, but what I am saying is that this is how I treat any claim like this; that an earthly explanation always comes first over a magical one. So even if an event can only be explained by a hundred interconnected earthly events, that is always more probable than it being by one supernatural event, because the earthly events are already known to exist (such as, potentially in this case, people lying, deceiving, manipulating etc... especially in the cause of religion).