anastasia writes:
... there are many instances of natural happenings of unlikely odds or unknown origin which have greatly changed the course of a religion.
But the changes in the religion have more to do with the propaganda value of the event than with the event itself.
Take a fairly well-known miracle, the resurrection of Jesus. There is little or no evidence that it happened or that Jesus even existed. The course of the religion was influenced by people's
belief in the event. Faith being the evidence of things not seen, it doesn't seem important for the miracle to be seen at all.
So another definition of "miracle" might be, "An event, real or imagined, in which people have faith."
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