RE: Apparitions from heaven???
November 4, 2016 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2016 at 11:57 am by ukatheist.)
Can I posit a scenario?
Indoctrinated little girl with a reputation for being fanciful one day says to her young cousin 'I'm special, I saw the Virgin Mary. Young cousin, not wanting to be left out replies 'I saw her too...' 'Oh yeah? Then what did she say?' 'Ummm, well I saw her but didn't hear what she said. What did she say?' 'Ha, loser. She told me three secrets' 'Aw, tell me' 'No' 'Buuuut, but but but pleaaaaase' 'Look, I'm not gonna tell you the secrets, but she did say there was gonna be a miracle' 'Oooh, when?' 'Ummmm [inserts random date].'
Children tell priest, it gets picked up by local rag, then the nationals.
Little girl does not want to be caught out in a lie with so much national interest so insists on sticking to her story.
Date rolls along, thousands descend on small town in expectation of miracle. Time rolls by with no miracle. Girl panics, plans on diverting attention away from her so she can say she saw a miracle while people were looking elsewhere, sees sun breaking through clouds, points and screams for people to look at the sun and gets ready to claim she saw a miracle, but to her amazement everyone around her is staring at the sun, having mistaken normal occular effects of bright sunlight as an apparition. Girl no longer has to make up story.
Catholic priest with in no way a vested interest in confirming a miracle interviews indoctrinated people who would in no way be suggestible to the authority of a priest and finds remarkable similarities in the accounts, non priest interviews people and find wildly varying accounts.
Catholic church and religious press with no vested interest run with the priests findings and bing bang bong, certified miracle.
But what of the young girl and her 'secrets'? Well, she reveals two, which predict things that have by that stage already happened and a third, to be revealed at a much later date, that is pretty unremarkable.
Do I have any evidence that it went down like that? Ofcourse not, but it is still a gazillion times more likely than goddidit.
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Indoctrinated little girl with a reputation for being fanciful one day says to her young cousin 'I'm special, I saw the Virgin Mary. Young cousin, not wanting to be left out replies 'I saw her too...' 'Oh yeah? Then what did she say?' 'Ummm, well I saw her but didn't hear what she said. What did she say?' 'Ha, loser. She told me three secrets' 'Aw, tell me' 'No' 'Buuuut, but but but pleaaaaase' 'Look, I'm not gonna tell you the secrets, but she did say there was gonna be a miracle' 'Oooh, when?' 'Ummmm [inserts random date].'
Children tell priest, it gets picked up by local rag, then the nationals.
Little girl does not want to be caught out in a lie with so much national interest so insists on sticking to her story.
Date rolls along, thousands descend on small town in expectation of miracle. Time rolls by with no miracle. Girl panics, plans on diverting attention away from her so she can say she saw a miracle while people were looking elsewhere, sees sun breaking through clouds, points and screams for people to look at the sun and gets ready to claim she saw a miracle, but to her amazement everyone around her is staring at the sun, having mistaken normal occular effects of bright sunlight as an apparition. Girl no longer has to make up story.
Catholic priest with in no way a vested interest in confirming a miracle interviews indoctrinated people who would in no way be suggestible to the authority of a priest and finds remarkable similarities in the accounts, non priest interviews people and find wildly varying accounts.
Catholic church and religious press with no vested interest run with the priests findings and bing bang bong, certified miracle.
But what of the young girl and her 'secrets'? Well, she reveals two, which predict things that have by that stage already happened and a third, to be revealed at a much later date, that is pretty unremarkable.
Do I have any evidence that it went down like that? Ofcourse not, but it is still a gazillion times more likely than goddidit.
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