Latest Live web lecture recording - available until Jan 17, 2018 - Michelle Boccanfuso Nanouche, CSB Christian Science Practitioner & Teacher

Latest Live web lecture recording - available until Jan 17, 2018

10/19/2017

gary

10/20/2017 08:33:00 pm

Stepping on the cloth border of a tatami mat brings bad luck.
---Japan

It is bad luck if a widow, a single Brahman, or a man carrying oil or milk crosses your path.
---India

It is bad luck for a black cat to cross your path.
---United States

I have frequently been told the following by conservative Christians in support of their belief in the existence of the supernatural (God, devils, angels, demons, etc..): "Miracles prove the existence of the supernatural. Millions of people all over the world claim to have experienced miracles, in particular, miracles due to answered prayer. How can so many people be wrong??? At least some of these millions of miracle claims must be true."

My response: Billions of people all over the world, today and for millennia in the past, believe that they have experienced bad luck due to intentionally or unintentionally violating a particular taboo in their culture. So let's apply the same logic: "How can so many people be wrong about bad luck taboos?" And, "At least some of these billions of bad luck claims must be true!" Right???

Wrong. The pervasiveness of the belief in bad luck taboos is proof that just because a lot of people believe something does not mean it is true. Crossing paths with a black cat is NOT going to cause you misfortune. And I believe that the evidence is clear that praying to a god is no more effective in affecting future events than crossing your fingers.

https://lutherwasnotbornagaincom.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/the-amazing-similarities-between-answered-prayers-miracles-and-bad-luck-superstitions/

Mchelle Nanouche

10/21/2017 02:45:07 am

Dear Gary, clearly our experiences are very different, and thus is our reasoning and our conclusions. But I respect where you are coming from, and appreciate that you took the time to watch and listen to the web lecture.

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Michelle Nanouche, Christian Science teacher, spirituality, healing, prayer

I have practiced Christian Science professionally in
some form since 1979.
But my journey with
Christian Science started
in a Sunday school
where as a young child
I was taught the Scriptures and some simple basics
of Jesus' method of
scientific Christian healing.
A significant experience
at the age of twelve
opened my eyes to
the great potential
of this practice.
After impaling my foot
on a nail,
I prayed the way I had learned
in Sunday school.
Within moments
the pain stopped
and healing began.
By the next morning the wound had disappeared completely.
Having experienced
the great potential
of Christian Science,
there would be no
turning back.

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