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I can kind of get the whole incorruptibility thing, it has a sensible narrative behind it - like, if you live in a particularly good way, your body improves too and does not become filthy after you die. That's a very understandable line of thought. But it never included any blood at all or weird aggregate state changes of it. And with the Resurrection too - that's the narrative that has internal reason which you can appreciate, whether you believe in its factual accuracy or not.
Yeah, that's I think where my problem is. If people go "oh, here's weird stuff happening and those guys are saying that's because of their religion, so I must join", that's a very spiritually weak conversion IMHO. I mean, business-wise you take whom you get, but that's what is called a low quality lead. It turns religious matters into some kind of magicians' contest. And it's not unnatural - that's exactly how the scene between Moses and the Paraoh went in the Bible - but Egyptians were pagans, so it looks like some kind of pretty primitive paganism. Not much removed from worshipping trees and thunder. It's very common I guess - given how widespread paganism has been over history - and could be a first stepping stone, but it's not something that one would really want to brag about if one talks about a modern religion.
I think we agree on a lot. I didn't become Catholic because of miracle claims, but as a Catholic I am able to accept miracle claims into my worldview. It doesn't hurt me if a miracle claim turns out to have been natural causes, a deception, or something in between - both of those explanations make sense in my world view. But I also am able to accept situations where it really does look like the laws of physics were violated somehow. And once I allow for that, there do seem to be a lot of credible miracles tied to Catholic saints or what is called "Vindicatory" miracles surrounding Catholic claims.
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