(August 28, 2023 at 3:13 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(August 28, 2023 at 2:41 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: As anyone who ever took Bible 101 knows, a "miracle" is something which is a completely natural event, in which a believer sees "the hand of their god working", and a non-believer sees no such action, and which can be explained by natural forces. A "miracle" is THE LAST possibly probable explanation, AFTER all other explanations are ruled out.
Is this sarcasm? Who would explain a talking donkey or thousands of dead people rising from the grave with natural forces?
Not really sarcasm.
They don't pass the smell test for a "natural event". "No such action" are events that are dismissed "out of hand".
No rational person buys into talking donkeys and no one has ever risen from the dead.
But on the other hand, believers buy into all sorts of crazy shit.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist