They are effective with their talk of pathological origin only so long
as supernatural origin is pleaded by the other side, and nothing but the argument from origin is under discussion.
This is our own empiricist criterion; and this criterion the stoutest insisters
on supernatural origin have also been forced to use in the end.
@Live4Him, «Natural origins or
Supernatural origins?
Clearly, atheists must believe that religion is a natural human development since, as you said, it can have
no supernatural origin.
Mark takes with full seriousness the reality of the earthly life of Jesus, but for him this lowly man of suffering is of
supernatural origin.
Some see Jesus as a very good man who preached love but had
no supernatural origin, or as a man who understood human frailty and psychology and hence was able to free others of psychosomatic blindness, etc..
But as the sciences began to develop, they gradually brought to light quite natural explanations for some aspects of observable phenomena which had previously been regarded as of
supernatural origin.
This form of the devotion spread and became officially recognised and promoted by the Church - even before the Church recognised
the supernatural origin of St Margaret Mary's revelations.
Where American horrors tend to provide us with earnest cops and wise religious figures, this film (like an earlier, non-horror South Korean thriller, Memories of Murder) offers no such comforting protagonists or confident insights to
the supernatural origins of the inexplicable events.
Agents's executive producer Jeff Bell promises that
the supernatural origins of Ghost Rider will tie - in with the supernatural elements of Doctor Strange.
Enter Finn Holmes — the mysterious, sexy guardian who's been watching over Wendy until she was old enough to learn the truth about
her supernatural origins — and the revelation of a hidden world full of mysteries, dangers, and untapped powers that Wendy never knew she had.»