Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

[Nay_Sayer]

How can the movement of a star hundreds or thousands of light years away have any effect on a person? A car driving past will have a greater gravitational field than a distant star, I can't think of any other force that a star can produce. (the same is also true for planets too!)

I don't know, but some people are quite entranced by the idea. 

I believe the point being made was that the liklihood of prophecy being accurate was akin to that of a horoscope being accurate.

I might check your horoscope, if I knew how to do so, but how would I ever discern its accuracy? It would be about your personal life, and how you subjectively saw it to apply to you. 

Prophecy being specifically targeted to the history of a well-tracked group of people allows each prophecy to be checked objectively.

Bolded, You should have stopped right there.