Some of these Catholics on this forum are such whiners. You point out any kind of inconsistency and instead of giving an intelligent response they throw a hissy fit and ping the moderator.
From the title of this thread, I thought this was an "Anti-Catholic" thread about Pio the Carbolic Catholic. Stigmata... What a bunch of superstitious nonsense. What I find hilarious is how so many Catholics freely question the documented miracles in the Bible (such as the Six day creation, the flood, Jonah, the Exodus, the walls of Jericho, the extended day, the crossing of the Red Sea.... and yet if anyone dares to question whether or not some Saint's stigmata may have some natural explanation, they have a temper tantrum and cry to the moderator like you just ran off with their strawberry flavored pacifier.
This Catholic actually agrees with you.
Stigmata... What a bunch of superstitious nonsense. What I find hilarious is how so many Catholics freely question the documented miracles in the Bible (such as the Six day creation, the flood, Jonah, the Exodus, the walls of Jericho, the extended day, the crossing of the Red Sea.... and yet if anyone dares to question whether or not some Saint's stigmata may have some natural explanation, they have a temper tantrum and cry to the moderator like you just ran off with their strawberry flavored pacifier.
On the superstition stuff, let me tell you something. My mom went to see Padre Pio as a little girl in Italy....and the way she'd tell us about this intense smell of roses the second he walked out on the balcony would send shivers up your spine. There is no *way* she is lying about it. I was an agnostic for a long time, and at various times in my life I wondered whether the church piped in some kind of scent like that...but I never was satisfied by that explanation.
But let me say that I do absolutely agree with you about categorically doubting Biblical miracles and believing in modern ones. The position is logically inconsistent and asinine.
But I'll turn it right back around on you....how come is it, that you can believe that God would work miracles for the old Israel but not the new Israel? I think there's a little rationalism creeping into your own Christianity there.
Have you read or cared to read any of the evidence? If so, what did you think was spurious? If not, why do you unjustly accuse?