The Santa thing got me thinking. If there was always either an unaccounted for present or lump of coal, and all the little boys and girls of the world got one regardless of their parents income (or at least all the Catholic boys and girls, since Nick is supposed to be a saint), that would be Pretty Mysterious and I would count it as evidence that There's Something Strange Gong On, and maybe there's something to this Santa thing after all.
Something falling into to similar category for God might be if the children of Christian parents, or a particular sect of Christianity, never got childhood leukemia or bone cancer. That would at least be a sign that Something Powerful is paying special attention to them. Of course, Christians explain the lack of such a phenomenon as God defending free will: everyone would join that sect if they knew it would protect their children from horrific suffering and nearly everyone would take it as a sign that the sect is the correct one. And God can't have people actually knowing which religion is the one he would prefer they join, so suck it, children of Christians.
Something falling into to similar category for God might be if the children of Christian parents, or a particular sect of Christianity, never got childhood leukemia or bone cancer. That would at least be a sign that Something Powerful is paying special attention to them. Of course, Christians explain the lack of such a phenomenon as God defending free will: everyone would join that sect if they knew it would protect their children from horrific suffering and nearly everyone would take it as a sign that the sect is the correct one. And God can't have people actually knowing which religion is the one he would prefer they join, so suck it, children of Christians.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
