Such a thing could scuttle your whole business.

I've been a good boy.

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Today's Christians get downright silly when they claim to see the face of (the Westernized preconceived notion of) Jesus' somewhere. If an image is "clear" enough, they will prostrate themselves in front of it, embarassing themselves and everyone who sees them. Or they pass by with silent reverence, grasping their rosaries or beads or whatever the hell gives them solace.

They are so desperate to find any sign of God's presence, it's rather pathetic.

It's a miracle!
(no, actually, there is a scientific explanation)
It's a miracle!!!

It's both sad and comical at the same time.
Sad that people are still hung up on all this mumbo-jumbo.
Comical that people are still hung up on all this mumbo-jumbo.

Contrast the Muslim faith with todays Christianity. No one claims to see the visage of Mohammed anywhere. Hell, no! That could mean a death sentence! Have there been reports of "miracles" through the Muslim world? If there have, I'm not aware.

(corrected some poor spelling)

Unbelievers are still just killed in most Muslim countries and access to information technology isn't prevalent. Christian countries have the opposite though. The religious must look at unbelievers walking around safely and even having equal rights. It must gall them horribly. Then of course the ubiquitous nature of information technology is causing people to leave the faith in record numbers. I am honestly surprised we don't see the religious politicians ranting about the evils of the internet.

So what can the poor christians do? Latch onto every "miracle" they can because it is all they have to prop up the faith at this point.

I saw several when I lived in Egypt, since they were always covered in the local paper.

Every once in a while, a farmer would discover a melon, or a baker a loaf of bread, etc., that appeared to have a verse from the Qur'an on it, in Arabic. Those miracles were always covered, with photos.

The Egyptian Gazette had a woman columnist who was not only a devout Muslim, but a believer in all kinds of woo. (Which she insisted were "scientific.&quot She claimed to know, with absolute certainty, that the animals sacrificed during the Eid festivals felt no pain and were happy to be sacrificed. My lying eyes call bullshit on that one, too. I've seen animals sacrificed for those festivals and saw no evidence of happiness.

No apparitions of Mo, for the obvious reasons you point out. Though the Quitbay Mosque in Cairo, built in 1492 IIRC, has a preserved footprint of Mohammed on display. I saw that miracle myself. It was just a footprint in dried plaster or mud. Didn't glow or levitate while I was there.

But we all know miracles are allergic to skeptics. Or as some smart-ass once flipped that idea - reason only visits where it's welcome.

as an atheist I demand free drugs to hallucinate as much as religio dweebs.

...I'd rather be on doggy's face."

Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me:
Bless Thy little child to-night;
Through the darkness Thou are near,
For I see you on Buster's rear.

To compare fantasy, wizards, witches, spells, transfiguration, dark arts, etc. with deities, angels, miracles, virgin births, transfiguration, demons, etc. is very, very offensive. One is obviously fictional, and the other is, uh ... nevermind ...

Grand Wizards, at least...

What... are you lacking in intelligence????

Don't mean to pull the rug out from under you but...

Have you not been informed that "magic" and "supernatural" have nothing to do with each other????

What did they expect the results to show? Human flesh and blood? Seriously?

They must have been very disappointed.