I guess I will never understand the assumptions made by the posters here that they know what others mean and are thinking. Millions of the book has been sold. I think the endeavor useless.
Do you know how many pet rocks were sold, and does that have any influence as to how you treat rocks today?
2 million copies of the ACIM book have been sold to date.
450 million copies of the Harry Potter series books have been sold to date. Does that mean that people ought to believe in wizards and magic as well?
Damn good question.
Why the silence, Lord? It’s not like all the earlier lessons have sunk in.
Hopefully if things really get out of hand, as in ICBMs being launched willy-nilly,
we will obtain deliverance: active deliveance, here in this world.
Who is trying to prove a lack of existence? You think gods exist then feel free to put forwards evidence. Trouble is, it ain’t very strong and the bar for the “supernatural” (i.e. anything we can’t explain by tangible, rational and empirical means) is getting raised all the time.
Gods are getting to be less and less useful as a means of explanation. Personally I see no need to even consider them at this point in time but I make no claim as to whether they exist or not. I do live my life as if they don’t and don’t foresee that changing any time soon.
Yes, sex and violence sells, gambling, drinking, and drugs, are all best sellers. It is very sad. I know you don’t understand any more than I do.
Yeah, funny how you **know **how we do think…
Actually you do not know either, as Harry Potter is rated PG overall.
Why is that sad? It’s evidence that most people’s lives are full of love and peace. That’s what makes action movies and such escapist entertainment: they are totally different from reality.
If immorality and corruption were the dominant themes of our society, people would yearn for escapist stories of moral purity and righteousness.
What version of the Harry Potter series have you been reading, lekatt? You cheeky little monkey… 
If I do not understand more than you do it is only because I don’t make claims to have knowledge of the pattently absurd.
Huh?
Is it me, or has this thread has taken a slightly bizarre turn?
This is how we roll. 
Maintaining a rational and coherent argument in this thread would require divine intervention.
The only one claiming special knowledge here is you, in thread after thread after thread. Ghosts speak directly to you, angels speak directly to you, even God speaks directly to you. You have a bad dream, and suddenly you’re an expert on "NDE"s. It’s a rare day when you supposedly don’t experience a “divine event”.
Paraphrased from Another Roadside Attraction:
Marx Marvelous There is no difference between a mystic who fasts and sees angels and a drunkard who drinks and sees spiders.
Amanda: The difference is that one sees angels and the other sees spiders.
Yes, we feed them milk
The OP should probably address these. I’ve visited the site of the 1917 Miracle of the Sun and it attracted crowds from all over. Most appeared to me to be more tourist than devotee, but I understand that medieval pilgrimages could be fairly rowdy as well: it wasn’t 24/7 piety if we are to believe Chaucer.
I agree with the spirit of the OP though. One religion professor I had opined that there wouldn’t be any more big prophets due to the existence of video tape and the like. A skeptical media puts a lid on the extent to which the tales can grow during the re-telling.
Not just that - remember Oral Roberts and his 900-foot-tall Jesus? That didn’t need to grow much, it was already pretty big. 
While modern recording media does help, I think a central reason is how in much of the world skeptics are allowed to express doubt. Oral Roberts can still talk about seeing a 900-foot-tall Jesus, but other people are free to say that it’s stupid instead of nodding their heads and pretending they believe him. That doesn’t stop fantastical stories naturally, but it acts as a damper on them.
I wonder sometimes just how many people in the ancient past actually believed all those miracle stories. Doubt and cynicism aren’t modern inventions, but people who didn’t buy such stories wouldn’t have dared publicly admit it under most circumstances.
Who says divine events no longer happen? They are still available to all who are willing to allow the skeptical bit of their mind to take a nap:
In our our present age of enlightenment, believers of such foolery outnumber the historic followers of Jesus by orders of magnitude.
Is a miracle an event that violates natural law, or a marvelous event that can be explained by natural laws? And what is natural law? If scientists could be certain that on one occasion an object fell up, they wouldn’t say the law of gravity had been violated, they’d formulate a new law that allowed for antigravity.
I ask these questions because some of the posts have been like, “Look! A miracle!” and “No, it’s not; it conformed to natural laws.”