This destroys the argument about the Resurrection though, you know. How do you or I know that the Apostles didn't just think they saw Christ? See where this leads? I don't want to dismiss mass hallucinations out of hand entirely, but I seriously doubt they are as easily done as some skeptics seem to think.
Where's the evidence, I'd say...what empirical data do we have on this phenomenon?
If they were real, it can very simply be a product of his mind. Science is increasingly finding associations between health and state of mind.
It could be a product of the mind sure...just like the wind could have just happened to blow the right way when Moses was crossing the Red Sea, just like it could have been an anomaly that the earth quaked and the sky darkened at the Crucifixion.
Let me be perfectly clear. Those miracles are in Sacred Scripture so we have to believe them...Padre Pio's miracles are totally debatable. Just let me implore you *do not dismiss them out of hand* just because Padre Pio was Catholic or just because you think it can't happen or because it doesn't make any sense to you personally.
Didn't I ask you why Jesus bodily resurrected?
I don't want to dismiss mass hallucinations out of hand entirely, but I seriously doubt they are as easily done as some skeptics seem to think.
With all the stuff the RCC has created around Mary I can understand why you need to support mass hallucinations. ;-)
Padre Pio's miracles are totally debatable. Just let me implore you *do not dismiss them out of hand* just because Padre Pio was Catholic...
I don't. I question them for other reasons. I don't dismiss something just because it involves RC's. I'm sure I'll meet brothers and sisters in Christ in heaven who came from that sect.