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Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

3. His miracle power has diminished

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 29, 2014, 08:32 PM

Aug 2014

with mankind's ability to understand more about how things work. At one time, humans were terrified by an eclipse, believed that virgins thrown into volcanoes would keep the volcano from erupting, the sun and the moon were in a perpetual battle to rule the sky, and white men arriving in ships were gods. It was pretty easy back then to convince them that a magic trick was a miracle.

Or maybe I am just jaded.