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RE: An Athiest On Miracles. by TBO
I agree with you. I think a lot of what we perceive to be truth is half preordained by what we want the outcome to be. Self fulfilling in a way. If I look for someone to discriminate against me because of something I'm concerned about, then I will justify a rejection as being the outcome of that concern. If I'm short (which I'm not, and fyi I'm devilishly handsome in every aspect of my physical being) and I walk up to a girl and she rejects me, to me it's because I'm short. The reason why I bring this up is because I think that 'miracles' work in the same way. Religion by nature revolves around ones faith that their belief is true. But I think human nature is perpendicular to the practice of 'faith' as a whole. We are always searching for a logical truth. When we believe in something so fully, and we're faced with people and situations that challenge that faith, we search to somehow qualify and prove to ourselves that what we believe is real. So imo, reality and proof manifests itself out of a need for preservation.
Mind you, I'm only presenting a perspective and not a persuasion or challenge to religious believers. This is more of just a theoretical resolve at how unexplained events happen. I honestly and truly think that in the end it's an amazing and awe-inspiring thing that we can all be so similar in so many ways and yet so different. I think it really is a beautiful thing; and it would be nice if we could all try harder to recognize it.