Believers in the supernatural are being objectively irrational if not subjectively. In other words, they are irrational even if they intend not to be. If others truly respect us, they will listen to what we have to say for error breeds error and always causes trouble in time. Anything that harms the truth is not good. We should be strong enough to go where the evidence leads us for if something is true then the evidence need not be feared and may support it.
Many of us have a desire to believe in miracles. Nobody has a need to. We will not die if miracles are fiction.
Catholics reason that their religion is true because God did miracles to show it is the right religion and his creation not man's.
The Church teaches some very unpopular doctrines. Jesus said that the complete love of God is the greatest and most important commandment. If you masturbate and die you will suffer everlasting torment. You must pretend that hating the evil character (sin is not an act but describes a kind of person) is not to hate the character the person.
Serious stuff. You'd need very strong proof for such incredible doctrines. In other words, you would need to see Hell before you would have the right to believe something so serious.
Catholicism says we have a need to believe in those doctrines because we are very bad and in big trouble if we do not. We have enough needs without people trying to oppress us by creating new needs for us.
If miracles support and give evidence for the doctrines then we need to believe in them. Then the atheist who does not believe is taking a stand against human rights.
Rights are based on needs. To believe in miracles is not a right.
Miracles then undermine the fact that we do not have a need to believe. We should find miracle claims offensive. We should worry.
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Miracles are true for the believers. If I say its true that Jesus' mother appeared to me, I am saying I have no right to discourage you from thinking that if you feel you are a prophet and must engage in a suicide bombing that will do some mysterious supernatural good that justifies it. Perhaps the suicide bombing is needed for the divine plan to work. Belief in miracles has sinister implications. Miracles implicitly oppose what is good and healthy for people - even though the may look as if they do not.
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We have a need to hold that the universe will behave a certain way. For example, that dead people don't come back. That cutting somebody's head off will kill them. We have a right to believe this.
We have to say we know what is likely. We have to say that whatever happens will be natural not supernatural. For example, if you jump off a skyscraper it is very likely that you will die. To say that an angel may save the person is dangerous. It undermines that. It makes us less confident that nature works in a predictable way. We need that predictability to be sane and to function in life and to learn.
Religion says it bans gullibility in relation to miracles for if people are uncritical they will be led astray by fake wonderworkers. It says miracles may only be believed if the evidence and the testimony in their favour is good enough.
The vast majority of miracle believers believe without much evidence. They just take the word of their leaders for it that miracles happened. They ignore the authorities that challenge the authenticity of those miracles. So miracle claims lead to credulity.
There are claims in relation to which evidence and testimony are no good. Sometimes to state a claim is to refute it. Sometimes to describe a doctrine is to refute it.
The believers do not believe in miracles because of the testimony and evidence at all. The testimony and evince is just window dressing and they are manipulators.
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