Posted: Mar 22, 2016 12:26 am
The question one might ask, is: "What is a miracle?"
Is it an occurrence that is highly unlikely? The falling tree could have missed the statue without divine guidance, (and doubtless did).
Suppose a lump fell off a 'plane as it flew over the Sahara, and landed on the only person for miles around, killing them. Then according to the tree-missing-statue standard of miracle, the plane-part-hitting-lone-Saharan-pedestrian is also a miracle.
If unlikely good shit is a miracle, then unlikely bad shit ought to be too???
When a person praises "God" for the miracle of saving them in the midst of a hurricane or tsunami in which hundreds of others were killed, then what of the huge numbers not saved? I strikes me that the miracle claim is one of great arrogance on the claimant's part.
Is it an occurrence that is highly unlikely? The falling tree could have missed the statue without divine guidance, (and doubtless did).
Suppose a lump fell off a 'plane as it flew over the Sahara, and landed on the only person for miles around, killing them. Then according to the tree-missing-statue standard of miracle, the plane-part-hitting-lone-Saharan-pedestrian is also a miracle.
If unlikely good shit is a miracle, then unlikely bad shit ought to be too???
When a person praises "God" for the miracle of saving them in the midst of a hurricane or tsunami in which hundreds of others were killed, then what of the huge numbers not saved? I strikes me that the miracle claim is one of great arrogance on the claimant's part.