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Bishop Blomfield, who occupied the See of London (1828-1857), was preaching in a village church from the text, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God”. The rector afterwards told him that his discourse was far above the heads of the congregation. The bishop denied this and suggested they should take the opinion of the first parishioner they met. It happened to be an old woman. Introduced to the bishop, she was asked about the sermon. “’Twere a fine sermon, my Lord”, she said, with the bishop beaming at the rector. The old woman continued, “but in spite of y’Lordship’s modesty, we ’ere think as there be a God.”
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Christians are always impressed by the reported appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of various saints who pass on a message, usually to a child or someone simple, that the local church should be repaired or that people must try harder not to swear. Carl Sagan asks why these admonitions are so prosaic — why not important and prophetic messages recognizable as profound enough to have come only from God. No miraculous vision criticized the torturing and burning of innocent people unjustly, when they had been falsely accused of being witches. Could these supernatural saints not grasp its evil? And why is Mary always ordering the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she appear to the authorities herself? There is simply nothing convincing in any of this unless presumably you have been indoctrinated into it from childhood.
