Atheist's Miracle

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There was a philosopher who decided to watch a priest on television one day. He was an atheist and thought Christianity to be a joke, but he felt like being entertained. He sarcastically said to himself,

“If I see a sign from God today, a real obvious sign, a sign that will not be explainable by natural means, I will become a Christian.”
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 Well, he decides to go outside to smoke a cigar, and as he opens his door, something catches his eye. The sky was completely clear, except for only three clouds, one surrounded by a pink mist. Each cloud was in the shape of a cross, each was the exact same size, and they were in a perfectly straight line. (The middle one was surrounded by the mist.)He gets in his car, and drives into town (he lives on a farm) and sees if anybody has seen the clouds. Nobody has (of course).
Since that day, being true to his word, he became a Christian (and eventually a monk).
 
Just another lying-for-Jesus story.

Where do you find nonsense like this?
And what does it have to do with philosophy?
 
It s true.

He was a man my mother knew in Pennsylvania. She told me about it a few years ago, and I just thought I would share it!
That’s it!
 
I once knew a Christian, and he was very devout and eventually he realized there was no God and his life became better and he was happier and then he became rich and had 17 sons and a beautiful wife and they lived happily ever after.

See? I can make up stupid anecdotes too.
 
I wasn’t trying to prove this story. I posted it just seeing how the skeptics would react.

I never claimed to be trying to “prove” it- I simply posted it and allowed you to make your own judgments.

I just like playing games with people sometimes. 👍

However…

There are many similar stories that HAVE happened to atheists. You can even look them up on Google.
 
shoewindow3000 said:
I wasn’t trying to prove this story. I posted it just seeing how the skeptics would react.

I never claimed to be trying to “prove” it- I simply posted it and allowed you to make your own judgments.

I just like playing games with people sometimes. 👍

However…

There are many similar stories that HAVE happened to atheists. You can even look them up on Google.
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Of course. And there are many stories about how Christians or Muslims or whatever decided that there was no God. Anecdotes should not be used in support of an argument. You can make a point with them, or explain your personal beliefs, but saying that Christianity is supported in any way because some people have neat stories about how they became Christian is ridiculous.
 
liquidpele said:
Of course. And there are many stories about how Christians or Muslims or whatever decided that there was no God. Anecdotes should not be used in support of an argument. You can make a point with them, or explain your personal beliefs, but saying that Christianity is supported in any way because some people have neat stories about how they became Christian is ridiculous.
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Or this neat little gem:

Joyce Hawkes, PhD (cell biologist), had an accident that forever changed her life — and her view of science. She suffered a concussion from a falling window. “I think that part of me — that my spirit, my soul — left my body and went to another reality,” she said. She was surprised at the experience.

“It just was not part of the paradigm in which I lived as a scientist,” Hawkes recalled. “It was a big surprise to me to have this sense of something different than the body — a consciousness different than the body — and to be in this wonderfully healing, peaceful, nurturing place.”

“I think what I learned was that there truly is no death, that there is a change in state from a physical form to a spirit form, and that there’s nothing to fear about that passage,” she said.
 
shoewindow3000 said:
Or this neat little gem:

Joyce Hawkes, PhD (cell biologist), had an accident that forever changed her life — and her view of science. She suffered a concussion from a falling window. “I think that part of me — that my spirit, my soul — left my body and went to another reality,” she said. She was surprised at the experience.

“It just was not part of the paradigm in which I lived as a scientist,” Hawkes recalled. “It was a big surprise to me to have this sense of something different than the body — a consciousness different than the body — and to be in this wonderfully healing, peaceful, nurturing place.”

“I think what I learned was that there truly is no death, that there is a change in state from a physical form to a spirit form, and that there’s nothing to fear about that passage,” she said.
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I think you might like this:

ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
 
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