<<That's what the scriptures say, look it up for yourself if you don't believe me.>>
Chris, this reminds me of something said by a boy I knew in high school. Referring to this remark of Bruce M's became, in my family, a short hand way to indicate a particular kind of hopelessly irrational, and essentially comic, thought process. I wonder if you can step back for a minute and see how comic such "logic" would be to those who don't see man-made items like texts and statues as proofs of the supernatural, whatever claims have been made (by human beings) that they are.
Bruce was arguing with someone about whether "miracles" were real or were more likely simply phenomena about which we had limited, or inaccurate, information.
He said, with as much confidence as you quote "scripture" as though the fact there there are words on a page is "proof" of their veracity, "But I have proof that a miracle is real -- I have personally been to the shrine of a Saint who performed one, and I can show you a picture of the shrine!
Of course, I already believed there were shrines, just as there really is a book of tales called the Bible.
And I hope you and Bruce derive peace and happiness believing that shrines and tales prove more than they appear to me to.
But you don't seem happy, Chris, and your surely do not seem at peace. In fact, you seem to be full of guilt and fear and animus, and to be anxious to spread these feelings among others. It's a shame. |
