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To: betty boop
If I were an atheist, I think I would save my money to buy a plane ticket to Italy to see whether the blood of Saint Januarius really did liquefy and congeal miraculously, as it is supposed to do annually. I would go to Medjugorge. I would study all published interviews of any of the seventy thousand who saw the miracle of the sun at Fatima. I would ransack hospital records for documented "impossible", miraculous cures. Yet, strangely, almost all atheists argue against miracles philosophically rather than historically. They are convinced a priori, by argument, that miracles can't happen. So they don't waste their time or money on such an empirical investigation. Those who do soon cease to be atheists—like the sceptical scientists who investigated the Shroud of Turin, or like Frank Morrison, who investigated the evidence for the "myth" of Christ's Resurrection with the careful scientific eye of the historian-and became a believer. (His book Who Moved the Stone? is still a classic and still in print after more than sixty years.)

Argument from History
by Peter Kreeft

How many atheists or agnostics dare to click on these links? Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. Our Lady of Guadalupe. Stigmata.

174 posted on 12/16/2002 5:49:19 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: Aquinasfan
Actually, atheists may be an important national resource. To be an atheist one must be intelligent, stubborn and independent, all the prerequisites for the resistance of tyranny. We must figure out how to use them before they go to Hell.

But if they are used for such a noble purpose, will they go to Hell? Possibly an unmined strategy for saving souls.

175 posted on 12/16/2002 6:17:33 AM PST by William Terrell
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