(August 7, 2017 at 4:05 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: It's amazing that you say "thousands" report seeing it but none of the newspapers or anything else report anything happened until some time later. We all know how some people are capable of switching off rational thought when it comes to belief.
All it takes is one or two people to claim they have witnessed something and others around them will often convince themselves they've seen it, too. I provided an example of the phantom vicar of London.
It's the type of thinking that allows a convicted conman to make the claim of being visited by an angel who showed him golden tablets, (which, conveniently, disappeared almost immediately) and creating a religion around himself.
It's the same kind of thinking that allows a mediocre writer, who once said, "If you want to get rich, start a religion", to do just that, with bad science fiction elements, yet attracts thousands of followers and is today a very dangerous cult.
That's why I said above that we'd need to see who published what exactly immediately after the fact.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
