(November 2, 2016 at 5:02 pm)Emjay Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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).
A supernatural explanation should never come. Just because one doesn't know the answer doesn't mean it was sp00ky Jezuz. 'I don't know' is far better than made up bullshit unless it's a hypothesis that can or will be tested.
