Re:First confirmed hatchings of two California condor chicks...
by dragonwriter on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:28PM
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> but every Catholic I've spoken with (I live in a majorly Catholic country) believes in the entirely miraculous virgin birth of Jesus.
Sure. I’m a Catholic and I believe that.
It’s also a non-explanation that doesn't actually rule out any particular physical process occurring as part of the manifestation of the miracle.
Other than things like the routine transubstantiation of the elements of the eucharist, where a defined part of the miracle is the absence of any physical manifestation of it occurring [0], that's pretty typical of miracles.
[0] Why doesn't the bread and wine that miraculously becomes the body and blood of Christ taste like flesh and blood? Well, because it miraculously also retains all the physical properties of bread and wine...
Re:First confirmed hatchings of two California condor chicks...
by danans on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:01PM
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> Why doesn't the bread and wine that miraculously becomes the body and blood of Christ taste like flesh and blood? Well, because it miraculously also retains all the physical properties of bread and wine...
I'm not a Catholic, but I figured that most people interpreted the bread and wine as symbolic.
That hasn't been my experience. I don't know about "most" Christians -- I wouldn't dare presume to speak for anyone in the US, for example -- but every Catholic I've spoken with (I live in a majorly Catholic country) believes in the entirely miraculous virgin birth of Jesus.
I think the phrasing "most Christians that have spent the time to consider [...]" is unfortunate; it reads like "every Christian which believes [this thing] believes [this thing]". Or it makes Christians who do believe in the miraculous birth without a prior physical setup to be somehow less thinking Christians.
Do note I'm an atheist myself so I certainly don't believe in miracles, either direct or indirect; I've no dog in this race.