Prayer

[Pat Mustard]

Not put to me but .. hahahahahah .. as if that would stop me.

I think it is like any other whopper.  What was ordinary enough at the time just becomes more grand with every telling.  By the time the feeding of the multitude gets committed to paper what might have started as five people noticing how content they'd been with so little food while passing an interesting afternoon with a charismatic guy becomes a miracle of magical proportions.  These should be phased out or relegated to children's literature in the same vein as Santa.

I could not agree more.  There is archeological evidence that the Biblical flood was actually a local, albeit catastrophic event.  I'm sure to the people at the time it was the "whole world".  But obviously none of them were forewarned, nor did they build a big-ass boat and load it up with animals, nor were all who told the story over the years sprung from the same family.  At least, not until you go back far enough to trace our original evolutionary ancestor.  Large evolutionary change does, after all, start with a single offspring, not an entire populous just poofing into existence.

Mesopotamia flooded on a regular basis, what with the Tigris and the Euphrates being so close together and fed by large volumes of snow melt in the spring and early summer. No wonder the jews stole the Noah mythology for their holy book when they started writing it during the Babylonian captivity.

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A big one that happened not too long ago was the miracle of the sun in fatima. I think most Church approved miracles consist of apparitions and spontaneous healing of serious illnesses/disorders.  

Oh yes, let's pick out the "miracle" that most of the thousands who were there on the day didn't witness, the miracle that those who "witnessed" it couldn't agree on what the sun was doing, the miracle that can be replicated if your willing to risk irreprable retina damage by staring at the sun, the miracle that was started by a little girl who had a penchant for lying and manipulating those around her for her personal gain, the miracle whose message was only written down after the events it was supposed to warn about.

Catholic Lady, you're doing a bang up job of disproving catholicism by posting this stuff, you know that?