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Originally Posted by Perndog
Plenty of people have witnessed miracles since Biblical times. The problem is, the Church grew up and started labeling people heretics when they said God talked to them. So anyone who was confronted by a burning bush after the time of the apostles got burned himself or went off to found his own religion (Islam being the only one that has flourished to this day).
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People still hear voices and claim to talk to God. These people are called schizophrenics, or they're suffering from delusions of grandeur. Nice to see the 20th Century has ways of explaining it.
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Originally Posted by ArtificialBrandon
More interesting is how God's role so easily shifted from being merely a tribal deity to the supreme creator and god of all mankind. Smells like pure public relations to me.
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