Thousands of amazing, inexplicable, wondrous, and even supernatural events occur every day. And yet most are unreported by the media. The few that are cited are ridiculed.
Why? Here's one possible reason:
Group #1 People most likely to believe in miracles are superstitious, uneducated, and prone to having a blind, literalist faith in their religions' myths.
Group #2 Those who are least likely to believe in miracles are skilled at analytical thought, well educated, and yet prone to having a blind, literalist faith in the ideology of materialism, which dogmatically asserts that the universe consists entirely of things that can be perceived by the five human senses or detected by instruments that scientists have thus far invented.
The media is largely composed of people from the second group. It's virtually impossible for them to admit to the possibility of miracles, let alone experience them. If anyone from this group manages to escape peer pressure and cultivate receptivity to miracles, it's because they have successfully fought against being demoralized by the unsophisticated way miracles are framed by the first group.
Be immune to the double-barreled ignorance. Behold astonishing synchronicities and numinous breakthroughs that seem to violate natural law, be willing to consider the possibility that our understanding of natural law is too narrow. And also refrain from lapsing into irrational gullibility; actively seek mundane explanations for apparent miracles. Quote
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com
UBBT Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
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