Joe Vaz is maliciously mischaracterizing my posts in response to which he plagiarized the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by calling them "gruesome attacks" or "vociferous attacks" on "Christian beliefs". Please see the following links to all my posts on miracles in the context of which he committed his act of plagiarism:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17751 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17791 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17826 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17879 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17880 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17910 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17915 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17922 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/17928 If you read the above posts from the 2001 archives, you will see that nowhere have I mentioned any "games" or "tricks". What he is referring to, and deliberating predating, fudging, distorting and mischaracterizing is what I said in the following post, posted almost a year later, in 2002: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/21833 Please see the limited context, in which I referred to these miracles as "games", not "tricks", as he falsely and maliciously states. Please also see the following upthread links to understand the full context of this post: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/21818 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/21822 I stand by my contention that these and other miracles, as well as miracles of any other religion, are NOT historical facts. I would not call them "games" outside the lighter context of the above-referenced post of mine, but I have no reason to believe that such supernatural events are real. I would also like to state that Joe Vaz is clearly lying when he says that he "included references where available" in his plagiarized posts on miracles in 2001. If you read those posts, it is plainly obvious that he did no such thing. Those three posts of his were entirely plagiarized long excerpts from the above-mentioned encyclopedias, and he deceptively avoided telling us that. Cheers, Santosh > >FYI, it was one of those incidents when Christian >beliefs were vociferously attacked on Goanet, with >reference to miracles performed by Christ which were >being termed (by a Goanetter) -- as some games and >tricks -- and not real occurrences as are historically >recorded. > >Hence, I had to do research from historical archives >to refute his charge, and included references where >available. > > > He gladly let those gruesome attacks by his friend >go bye, without a word. >