This chapter asks the question ‘What is a miracle?’ You’ve heard me wax pontificatory too much on religion, so I’ll hold off here. Instead, I’ll just point out that what Hrathen thinks—that something can be a miracle even if there was nothing ‘miraculous’ involved—makes perfect sense, I think. Look at it this way. A) Hrathen believes (as many in our world do) that God controls everything. B) Hrathen believes (as many in our world do) that God can do whatever he wants without expending any resources or weakening Himself. C) Therefore, it doesn’t matter to God whether or not He has to ‘magically’ cause something to occur or not—as long as an event is made to coincide with what He wants to happen, it is miraculous. It’s just as easy for Him to make something occur through the natural flow of the universe as it is for him to make it occur through breaking of normal laws.
(This, by the way, is why ‘miracles’ such as faith healings or the like should never, in my opinion, form one’s grounds for belief in a particular religion.)
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