(February 12, 2015 at 2:14 am)EccentricAlien Wrote: The question is: When arguing with a religious person, how does a non-religious person respond with something "supernatural" like that??
Best case, that's an easy example of cold reading, and honestly, that's being charitable.
What he said was so vague, he might not have even been employing any real sophistication. He's relying on a sufficient vagueness along with his status of authority to compel her into trying to "fix" a problem he just created.