Wearer of Hats, on 10 January 2013 - 09:30 AM, said:
surely if you're using the Bible as a basis, then you should accept the "Mowing Devil" explanation for crop circles?
I don't quite see that argument
The religious establishment seems to often decide that anything that cannot be readily explained, and some that can be explained, must be the work of the 'devil'
unless this phenomena, whatever it may be, is being done by one of their deities in which case it is a 'miracle'!
An ardent teetotaller might argue that changing water into wine was the work of the 'devil' ? ( most of us would not agree) so it is just a matter of perspective
There will no doubt be those who oppose the idea of some crop designs having a foreign or spiritual origin on the basis that this might challenge their particular
religious beliefs and concept of the divine unless of course it transpired that it was their deity making them. In the 'Mowing Devil' case all those years ago when people were much more superstitious the local clergy, not knowing the cause, would cast it as evil and spin some yarn about it being due to an evil farmer who had better come to church and pray for forgiveness. This is because the route to the divine was only through the church and hence the clergy.
In secular Britain today the attitude would be very different with very few, if any, people diving for the church door when a crop circle appears