Stuff Catholics Like

Catholics already think God is ineffably cool just because He’s God.  Miracles show God’s presence in a more tangible way.  Many people are so deeply impressed by miracles that they become Catholics. Miracles also show that God has a great sense of humor, or at least a deep appreciation of the ironic. Catholics like miracles because they are another opportunity to give thanks and say, “Wow, God, that was a good one!”

Miracles are innately nifty occurrences.  Usually the world operates in a fairly predictable manner, but once in a while God will tweak something in creation, just so we remember who He is. For example, the sun usually moves slowly from east to west across the sky.  However, on October 13, 1917, He made the sun change colors and bounce around the sky in Fatima, Portugal.  Bathing in icy water usually tends to make one cold and prune-ish, but if you do it in Lourdes, France, it might cure a crippling disease.  These are just a couple of the myriad examples that include everything from flying nuns to fish that listen to sermons, and a number of other phenomena normally found in Star Trek.

There are some people who think that miracles are so much hokum.  They say that perhaps there was a mass hallucination/outbreak of wishful thinking at Fatima, despite identical testimony being given by both Catholics and non-believers.  Or that the reason Jesus appeared to walk on water was because he was stepping on ice floes, despite the obvious geographical problems involved. (If you subscribe to this theory, I can get you a great deal on a bridge in New York.)

Many of the people who say that miracles don’t exist are atheists. Miracles make atheists angry, because if miracles are real then God is real. They spend a lot of time constructing elaborate theories about “what really happened” that, sadly, tend to be far less convincing than the assertion of the miraculous.  It is important to be careful in mixing atheists and miracles; sometimes they convert, but then sometimes their heads explode, so make sure you wear goggles.

Contributed by 3SecondFish