(September 19, 2014 at 2:55 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Why do the Biblical supernatural events become more believable when they are written in ancient texts, decades or more after the alleged events, by superstitious, tribal people, with way less understanding of the universe than we have, with no way to be verified?
As the Noah Cross character in Chinatown says, "'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
I guess the same principle is at work when it comes to the magical claims of religious folk . . . unless, of course, those claims come from people who don't belong to the "right" religion.
