Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
No, I'm not talking about sorcery, which is expressly forbidden by many religions.
I mean "the power of faith manifest in the world to enact seemingly impossible things, distinct from miracles, in that they came from the person's faith not by intervention." Theat is, a miracle id a special occurrence, but being able to use faith healing or protection is distinct from that. What most sane people would call "prayer" rather than "miracles."
We look at these fairy tales, and most of us see basically an author trying to entertain the public. But I see it differently.
I see a time where faith allowed things to happen, like people healing, driving out demons, protecting others, etc. But there's a flipside to this. You also have fear basically allowing awful things to happen (think of all those possessed people in the Gospels), and you have angry people able to use the power of their mind to do nuke-level magic (Hindu scripture has stories of stuff like this).
Which is why, at some point, magic began to be sealed. Less and less people had it. Until people thought of it as a myth.
Why is this important? Well Revelation (and possibly other end times religioys text) tells of a time where every tear will be washed away from people's eye. Either God micromanages people's lives, or....
But before any of that, the reutn of actual prayers that work ("magic") would probably be signalled by many people who are afraid creating alot of bad situations.
What do we have right now? Riots, burning, killer bees, a plague, natural disasters, etc.
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A song.
I mean "the power of faith manifest in the world to enact seemingly impossible things, distinct from miracles, in that they came from the person's faith not by intervention." Theat is, a miracle id a special occurrence, but being able to use faith healing or protection is distinct from that. What most sane people would call "prayer" rather than "miracles."
We look at these fairy tales, and most of us see basically an author trying to entertain the public. But I see it differently.
I see a time where faith allowed things to happen, like people healing, driving out demons, protecting others, etc. But there's a flipside to this. You also have fear basically allowing awful things to happen (think of all those possessed people in the Gospels), and you have angry people able to use the power of their mind to do nuke-level magic (Hindu scripture has stories of stuff like this).
Which is why, at some point, magic began to be sealed. Less and less people had it. Until people thought of it as a myth.
Why is this important? Well Revelation (and possibly other end times religioys text) tells of a time where every tear will be washed away from people's eye. Either God micromanages people's lives, or....
But before any of that, the reutn of actual prayers that work ("magic") would probably be signalled by many people who are afraid creating alot of bad situations.
What do we have right now? Riots, burning, killer bees, a plague, natural disasters, etc.
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A song.