RELIGION HOLDS MIRACLES ARE IMPORTANT AND SACRED WHICH INSINUATES SCEPTICS ARE BAD
Even if the unbelievers and sceptics are sincere they are still bad and doing harm in the religious view. They may not be sinners in disagreeing and opposing for they are sincere and well-meaning but they still do damage and must admit accountability.
Some religionists say, "Love the sinner and hate the
sin". In the case of a sincere opponent of religion and miracle this will change
to, "Love the person and hate the evil they do and cause". The whole point of
hating sin is to hate the evil. Religion hates the evil intention in the person.
That is a waste of energy because here is nothing anybody can do about that
except the person themselves. Religion also hates the evil and harm the person
produces. So the evil whether deliberate or not is to be hated. In fact, when
you ostracise somebody you don't say, "I ostracise the sin not the sinner". You
don't say, "I punish the sin but not the sinner". You can't do that any more
than you hate the sin and love the sinner. Christians are fully aware of the
hypocrisy - they don't believe anybody who tells them they hate their
Christianity but love them. Miracles are in a real sense a call to hate. They
demand that you hate and then do the additional evil of lying about it that it
is really love you do.
Further Reading ~
Answers to Tough Questions, Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Scripture Press,
Bucks, 1980
Apparitions, Healings and Weeping Madonnas, Lisa J Schwebel, Paulist Press, New
York, 2004
A Summary of Christian Doctrine, Louis Berkhof, The Banner of Truth Trust,
London, 1971
Catechism of the Catholic Church, Veritas, Dublin, 1995
Catholicism and Fundamentalism, Karl Keating, Ignatius Press, San Francisco,
1988
Enchiridion Symbolorum Et Definitionum, Heinrich Joseph Denzinger, Edited by A
Schonmetzer, Barcelona, 1963
Looking for a Miracle, Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, New York, 1993
Miracles, Rev Ronald A Knox, Catholic Truth Society, London, 1937
Miracles in Dispute, Ernst and Marie-Luise Keller, SCM Press Ltd, London, 1969
Lourdes, Antonio Bernardo, A. Doucet Publications, Lourdes, 1987
Medjugorje, David Baldwin, Catholic Truth Society, London, 2002
Miraculous Divine Healing, Connie W Adams, Guardian of Truth Publications, KY,
undated
New Catholic Encyclopaedia, The Catholic University of America and the
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, Washington, District of Columbia, 1967
Raised From the Dead, Father Albert J Hebert SM, TAN, Illinois 1986
Science and the Paranormal, Edited by George O Abell and Barry Singer, Junction
Books, London, 1981
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan, Headline, London, 1997
The Book of Miracles, Stuart Gordon, Headline, London, 1996
The Encyclopaedia of Unbelief Volume 1, Gordon Stein, Editor, Prometheus Books,
New York, 1985
The Hidden Power, Brian Inglis, Jonathan Cape, London, 1986
The Sceptical Occultist, Terry White, Century, London, 1994
The Stigmata and Modern Science, Rev Charles Carty, TAN, Illinois, 1974
Twenty Questions About Medjugorje, Kevin Orlin Johnson, Ph.D. Pangaeus Press,
Dallas, 1999
Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer, Freeman, New York, 1997