According to the old, familiar story, theism is uncontroversially false; educated people know this, but promote religious belief in order to control the common folk who, without religion, would run amok, or to console them for the tough lives they lead and the inevitability of death – like Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor, dealing in miracle, mystery and authority.
His most famous German productions, "Everyman" and "The Miracle," dealt with Christian themes.
John Galt has gone downmarket:An update is needed, and not just because train buffs, New Deal economics and the miracle of the Bessemer converter are inexplicable to people under 50, not to mention boring.
When Jabin complained about the amount Edwards was offering, Kumar responded that there would be no other deal — it was a miracle that there was any offer at all.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa even likened the deal to a religious miracle performed by the pontiff.
Carl Sagan's famous dictum that, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", should always be kept in mind when dealing with promises of miracle cures.
"Now it must be acknowledged that if in Jesus' Resurrection we were dealing simply with the miracle of a resuscitated corpse, it would ultimately be of no concern to us" (p. 243).
As a member of the House-Senate conference on the deal, Mr Burr calls it a "miracle".
Following the London deal, West Germany experienced an "economic miracle", with the debt problem resolved and years of economic growth.
She let her come and stay until Mary and Joseph figured how to deal with this unexpected, extremely inconvenient miracle.
