{"id":6127,"date":"2009-07-27T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/note-the-similarity-of-method\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:36","slug":"note-the-similarity-of-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/note-the-similarity-of-method.html","title":{"rendered":"Note the Similarity of Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Whether you are an atheist anti-Catholic or merely a Protestant anti-Catholic, the way to respond to claims of the miraculous is the same: don\u2019t go and see if a miracle has occurred.  Instead, sit on your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-shea.com\/pad.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">big<\/a> fat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntrmin.org\/images\/questions\/transubstantiation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ass<\/a> and spout some theory about how it can\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Protestant anti-Catholic, you can, of course, also add that claim that if something supernatural has happened, it was the devil.  You know, like the Pharisees did in calling Jesus Beelzebub.  Of course, you\u2019d better be right because the consequence could be quite severe if it turns out you are blaspheming the Holy Spirit and not even bothering to find out what you are talking about before you do it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are an atheist anti-Catholic or merely a Protestant anti-Catholic, the way to respond to claims of the miraculous is the same: don\u2019t go and see if a miracle has occurred. Instead, sit on your big fat ass and spout some theory about how it can\u2019t have happened. 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