RE: The undeniable miracle at Fatima
August 13, 2017 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2017 at 7:15 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 13, 2017 at 6:09 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 13, 2017 at 4:28 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Funny though, how you only accept miracle claims, as being true, when they stem from your religion. Yet, you don't when they stem from other religions.
Smacks of intellectual dishonesty, when the evidence you accept for Catholic miracle claims, is of the same type of evidence for miracle claims from other religions, that you do not accept.
for example, here are websites with stories of Jinn (Muslim spirit beings) possession. They are based on 'true stories'. There are many more 'true stories' of Jinn possession. Do you believe them?
https://jellani.wordpress.com/category/r...-and-wife/
http://muslimmatters.org/2008/02/11/a-co...xperience/
http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.ph...al-Philips
They're the only ones I am familiar with and learned about in school, etc. But I wouldnt be opposed to the notion of God performing miracles for people of other faiths as well.
But they claim that THEIR god performed the miracles.
Would you be open to that possibility? If so, what sort of evidence would you accept in order to believe their god performed the miracles?
And here I am, completely outside ALL religious beliefs, trying to figure out a way for Christians to differentiate their god's miracles, from those of Muslims, Hindus, etc, etc. And all I am given is the same sorts of evidence from all religions for the miracle claims. Bad anecdotal evidence.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.