Back when I was young and still a fundie, I once came extremely close to being in a bad car accident. A truck was driving erratically a few vehicles behind mine. I yanked my car to the right, into a parking space, just as the truck plowed into the vehicle behind me. That car lurched forward and grazed my left rear bumper, and rear-ended the car in front of me.
I didn't make the conscious decision to pull the car over, but I was aware of noise and movement behind me. I told my friend Kathy about it. She was certain that an angel had spared me. I was beginning to question during that time, and was uncomfortable with this. I had no sense of any entity in the car except ME, and I wasn't going to claim there was. But Kathy spread the story around the school.
THIS was an extraordinary claim. The kind that needs evidence. Had I been a few years younger I might have spread that story myself, even adding in that someone was in the car with me, my hands were being guided, or . . . who knows what. I could have just made up the whole thing, and if I told it to a church group, not only would they have believed it, but they would have been offended by anyone who didn't believe it.
This kind of extraordinary claim exists in all religious books, and proliferates in religious groups.
Verifiable evidence, please. Multiple witnesses, photo and video for a start. Proof, or it didn't happen. We need to eradicate the snake-oil salesmen from our society.
I didn't make the conscious decision to pull the car over, but I was aware of noise and movement behind me. I told my friend Kathy about it. She was certain that an angel had spared me. I was beginning to question during that time, and was uncomfortable with this. I had no sense of any entity in the car except ME, and I wasn't going to claim there was. But Kathy spread the story around the school.
THIS was an extraordinary claim. The kind that needs evidence. Had I been a few years younger I might have spread that story myself, even adding in that someone was in the car with me, my hands were being guided, or . . . who knows what. I could have just made up the whole thing, and if I told it to a church group, not only would they have believed it, but they would have been offended by anyone who didn't believe it.
This kind of extraordinary claim exists in all religious books, and proliferates in religious groups.
Verifiable evidence, please. Multiple witnesses, photo and video for a start. Proof, or it didn't happen. We need to eradicate the snake-oil salesmen from our society.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
