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BELIEVING THAT

MIRACLES ARE HALLUCINATIONS

As a rule, you have to take the simplest explanation for anything as true. The simper something is the more likely it is to be true.

Religion contends that God has set up laws of nature. At certain times, he will do things such as make a dead man live that seem to go against these laws. Why the change? Because he wants to use the event to say something religiously significant. In other words he uses miracle as a sign that he exists and as a teaching tool.

We know we should only accept a miracle has happened if we have exhausted all the natural possibilities and there is no other answer which never happens for nature can or might be able to simulate miracles. If miracles happen and we know it then it is simpler to assume that their witnesses were subject to a form of hallucination that cannot be understood for we will never understand nature completely or learn every one of its laws or which is miraculous. Incidentally, this is another disproof of the religious lie that miracles are signs for the true gospel from God.

A miracle goes against natural law or is something that nature cannot do so it should only be believed when it absolutely cannot be denied. Nature testifies that it never happened so it is only accepted when one’s back is against the wall. You only believe a miracle when it would be more miraculous if the witnesses were deluded or lying or if you see it yourself. But this never happens for you can believe that YOU are partly mad and imagining that they are testifying and that you see it. This approach will appear too extreme. But the law is that the simplest understanding is the one to be followed. It is simpler to believe in unknown laws of nature that make you slightly unhinged than it is to believe in miracles and the supernatural. Miracles are all opposed to reason and therefore to truth.

To blame miracle evidence on madness is not extreme for we know that nature exists but have no evidence that there is a supernatural power or that it has worked in the world.

We do not and cannot understand the human mind completely so there could be times in which the mind becomes susceptible to illusions about supernatural events. They could be a form of mass hallucination we know nothing about.

We have proved that it is irrational to believe in the vision of Medjugorje or in the return of Jesus from the dead if these are miracles. Miracles like these can only proceed from a deceptive power if they are real miracles and not miraculous hallucinations. And if they are miraculous hallucinations instead it makes no difference except to worsen the whole situation for believers for it is bad enough to have hallucinations caused by aberrations of nature but worse to say that miracles happen which implies there can be hallucinations caused by hidden forces. That would mean a man could be found sane and not hallucinating when natural techniques of diagnosis are carried out but who could still be hallucinating due to undetectable magical potencies!

Using miracles as signs that Jesus is the Son of God or whatever is counterproductive. Miracles are useless as signs.