{"id":4127,"date":"2013-04-02T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2013-04-02T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:37:10","slug":"el-milagro-de-los-milagros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"El milagro de los milagros"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A viewer of\u00c2\u00a0televangelist Pat Robertson’s 700 Club asked an obvious\u00c2\u00a0but important question\u00c2\u00a0about Miracles.\u00c2\u00a0 Here it is\u00c2\u00a0(via Raw Story<\/a> via Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n

On Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode of CBN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0The 700 Club<\/em>, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know why \u00e2\u20ac\u0153amazing miracles (people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking) happen with great frequency in places like Africa, and not here in the USA?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is a good question.\u00c2\u00a0 For one famous answer, see David Hume<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 For another answer, listen to Pat Robertson:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People overseas didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go to Ivy League schools,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the TV preacher laughed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so sophisticated, we think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got everything figured out. We know about evolution, we know about Darwin, we know about all these things that says God isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t real.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have been inundated with skepticism and secularism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he conintued. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And overseas, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re simple, humble. You tell \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem God loves \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem and they say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOkay, he loves me.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 You say God will do miracles and they say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOkay, we believe him.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking for. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why they have miracles<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One could argue the reverse ought to be the case:\u00c2\u00a0you need a background knowledge of the laws of nature in order to appreciate their violation.\u00c2\u00a0 But what does he know, he didn’t live in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A viewer of\u00c2\u00a0televangelist Pat Robertson’s 700 Club asked an obvious\u00c2\u00a0but important question\u00c2\u00a0about Miracles.\u00c2\u00a0 Here it is\u00c2\u00a0(via Raw Story via Reddit): On Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode of CBN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0The 700 Club, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know why \u00e2\u20ac\u0153amazing miracles (people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking) happen with great frequency in … Continue reading El milagro de los milagros<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1630,1632,1628,1629,1631],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-700-club","tag-jesus-is-a-jerk","tag-miracles","tag-pat-robertson","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}