Feeding 5,000: Origins of a Miracle (Dan McClellan; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Gather 5,000 of your best friends and let's have a pot-luck. We're talking loaves, we're talking fishes, and we're comparing not two, not three, but ALL FOUR GOSPELS! It's a miracle!

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/CIzLwDqUZdM?si=V77FxqtKyWIQDWHq

'FAITH HEALING' NEEDS TO STOP - 'MIRACLES' DON'T EXIST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaIwlqXjT5w

 

The SHOCKING Origins of Jesus MIRACLES | MythVision Documentary

Most Christians read the New Testament and listen to their teachers about Jesus miracles believing that they are historical acts from the 1st century. Some go further and think miracles are still happening today, but what may come as a shock to most Christians is that Jesus wasn't the first or only miracle worker. In fact, there are several other miracle workers who were far more popular in the Greek and Roman world at the time the New Testament was being written. These Gods include Hercules, Ascepius and Isis, but that's not all. There were also several mortal men we call hero's who also "supposedly" performed miracles according to their sources. These hero's include Pythagoras & his disciple Empedocles, King Pyrrhus, Caesar Augustus, Vespasian, Apollonius of Tyana, Asclepiades, Moses, Elijah and Elisha. We literally go over the primary sources which you can go see for yourself. Many of these Gods and heroes raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, mobility to the crippled, and health to the diseased. This seems to be a well established trope within the broader Greek and Roman world from which Christianity was birthed.

Our goal is to level out the playing field of miraculous claims and show the Christians who insist on their Jesus being the only one to have performed such miracles, that they need to contend with the obvious fact that this isn't the case. The Greek and Roman world was flooding with tales of Gods and heroes who performed extra-ordinary deeds. I think this path of learning can help defang fundamentalism and help people appreciate the deeper meaning of these stories and why they were written in the first place. This documentary is setting out to place Jesus in his historical, cultural & literary context. Put another way, it would be odd if the stories of Jesus didn't have miracle tales. This is what you did to your hero's & gods at this time and place in the world.

We all are born, live a life which is often full of struggles, diseases and hard to get through, then we die. The miracle stories touch on the deepest issues all humans have to experience in some ways. We should recognize that the story is what is ultimately where the meaning is.
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/aM5uB9MJT4I?si=28QDsdckEFOn-7E6

Mr Deity Shorty: Miracles #shorts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_3eQnH86vTo

TB Joshua exposé: How the disgraced pastor faked his miracles

The BBC unmasks, for the first time, how the late Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua faked the miracles that drew millions of people to his church...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67944614

Miracles & Magic: The Fine Line Between Belief

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_7sITU6iJ0

What's going on when the Virgin Mary appears and statues weep? The answers aren't just about science or the supernatural

When it comes to weeping statues, one of the primary questions is whether the event has been staged. For example, in two cases of statues that supposedly had wept blood – one in Canada in 1986 and another in Italy in 2006 – the blood turned out be that of the statue's owner. 

Liquids can also be injected into the porous material of statues and later seep out as "tears." Oil that is mixed with fat can be applied to a statue's eyes, which will "weep" when ambient temperatures rise…

https://theconversation.com/whats-going-on-when-the-virgin-mary-appears-and-statues-weep-the-answers-arent-just-about-science-or-the-supernatural-204091

The Rain Miracle of Marcus Aurelius: A Case Study in Christian Lies • Richard Carrier

…More likely than not, the Rain Miracle of Marcus Aurelius began as just a couple of fortunate coincidences, later conflated, that then all who were there praised as a miracle of pagan magic. A few years later, Christians changed the entire account to make them the heroes, forging state documents, fabricating narratives, and inventing a whole fake legion. Rapid legendary development, completely eclipsed subsequent history. Christian lies triumphed. A myth was born by pagans, and then out of that, an even more absurd myth was born in its place by Christians. That's how all religious history was created (OHJ, Element 44, pp. 214-22; OHJ, Chapter 9; OHJ, Chapter 10).

Yet another of countless examples of Christian authors making up stories to sell Christianity by, routinely fabricating history and forging documents to do so. It didn't matter that their stories are thoroughly implausible and fairly easy to refute for anyone who took the trouble to check the facts. It is clear no one did. Few could (Not the Impossible Faith, Chapter 7); and none were encouraged to (Not the Impossible Faith, Chapter 17). And if any did, nothing they said would be preserved by the subsequent Christian gatekeepers of all print media, who delighted in "disappearing" every book there was that ever challenged or criticized Christianity—or even their preferred sect of it…

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/12480

John W. Loftus - Is Jesus Real? (The Phil Ferguson Show podcast #336)

Interview with John W. Loftus. We discuss his newest book " The Case Against Miracles". John and several other writers explains why Miracles likely do not happen.

John has several other books on religion:
- Unapologetic
- Christianity in the light of science
- How to defend the christian faith: Advice from an Atheist
- Christianity is NOT Great
- God or Godless?
- The Outsider Test for Faith
- Why I became an Atheist
- The end of Christianity
- The Christian Delusion

Investing Skeptically: ESG investing.
Interview:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/8084919/336-v8bs1D

The Case Against Miracles (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio)

Kanye West should not be preaching in prisons. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne explains how we successfully stopped public funding for churches and religious ministries. We report additional recent state/church victories in Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Kentucky. Then former minister and Christian apologist John Loftus, who is now an atheist, tells us about his newest book, The Case Against Miracles.
Interview:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/freethought-radio/e/65445314

Jim Bakker Says Trump Has Been Spiritually 'Saved So Many Times' Since Becoming President - YouTube - RWW News

Jim Bakker says that he personally knows for a fact that Trump has been spiritually "saved so many times" since becoming president, which is why "there's miracles coming out of the White House."....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXyag7ejH28