Are Miracles being performed in Jerusalem?

You pulling our legs man?

“The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.”

Émile Zola.

I want to see the evidence. 

 But he is claimed to have generated missing genitalia in Africa. I want to see the evidence.

Now that may be the first time I would turn down an opportunity to see the evidence.

He’s a hypnotist/social-pressureist. People have been doing it for years. Some of his victims actually experience change (in their minds) and believe something miraculous happened. It’s not that hard to motivate people into believing incredible things based on a good show and huge smiles and confidence. Others simply go along with whatever the hypnotist is saying, even if they doubt it and know that no miracle has been performed. There is a larger than life character doing these miracles in front of a camera and sometimes an audience. The next day, the man with a bum leg will have chronic pain again. Meanwhile the people who don’t need a miracle performed, who wont realise the next day that their problem isn’t actually solved…now think he is a miracle worker and many will support him and some will follow him. A few will (eventually) give him tons of money.

Davis wrote:

It’s not that hard to motivate people into believing incredible things based on a good show and huge smiles and confidence.

Oh man, visions of Scientology popped up just now.

Try again:

Old Emile was not entirely  correct; Since Bernadette Soubirous saw her lady in 1858, there have been a few over 60 “officially recognised” cures . But yes, no prosthetic limbs.
How many pilgrim have been to Lourdes? 200 million or more? 60 cures seems such a small number—
.—-especially when you consider the rate of the spontaneous remission of disease is 1:30,000. IE you have a better chance of spontaneous remission than of a cure at Lourdes.

I love a good miracle. My favourite Christian miracles were performed by St Joseph of Cupertino. When he prayed he would often go into at trance, and levitate, inside and out. His brother monks became quite accustomed to Joe flitting around the church ceiling. If they were quick, they could grab hold of his rope belt and stop him from floating away.

No, really, I’m not making this up. There’s even a picture! So it must be true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino

Of course India remains arse deep in miracle workers of all kinds. Is it just me, or does anyone else see a strong correlation  between  ignorance, religiosity, superstition and religion?

Thought for the day:

“Religion: Man’s attempt to communicate with the weather” (grafitto Cambridge 2000)

• This reply was modified 6 years, 12 months ago by Glen D.
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