Today is Pentecost Sunday and, as I was sitting in church, I started to think how exciting it would be to have a loud rushing wind roar through the church and suddenly see little 'tongues of flame' on everybody's heads. And then I realized, sadly, that in this day and age, no one would believe it. They would assume it was a neat special effect. We are so jaded by the things we see on television and the internet and at the movies that we believe anything can be made to look real. If people were watching the live stream of the church service they would have assumed it was staged. Of course, if we all ran out of church speaking different languages, people might have believed, or might have assumed we were drunk, just like in the Bible narrative. Even then people were skeptical. I guess it's human nature. People doubt lots of things. Unless, of course, you read it on Facebook. Then it has to be true.
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