The Fallacy in latter-day Visions

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(by TIME magazine in association with CNN)

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Joan of Arc, France
The French peasant girl had a dream — in fact she had many dreams, visions in which Christian saints would come to her, urging her to take up the fight against the English, who occupied much of northern France. Improbably, Joan made her way to the court of the cowed French dauphin, or prince, and impressed the royals with her holy cause to the point that she was given armor and troops to command. At Orleans in 1429, Joan proved her mettle by famously leading the assault that lifted the English siege of the city. A pivotal victory, it spurred other quick successes and turned the tide against the English invaders. A few years later, though, Joan was captured by the forces of England's French allies and burned in a public square on grounds of heresy and witchcraft. The French King Charles VII, whose crown had been secured in part by Joan's heroics, did little to try to save her. But history and popular legend redeemed Joan, who was canonized in 1920 by the Vatican and remains one of France's patron saints. —Ishaan Tharoor

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I have often pointed out that Satan is the one behind the latter-day visions by some "Christians" and the apparitions that are peculiar to the Catholic Church. How could the true God who abhors violence have sent dead people, whom the Catholics refer to as "saints", to Joan and goaded her to pick up arms against fellow humans?  Did Jesus not show a practical example of his Father's abhorrence of violence when he told Peter that those who kill with the sword will die by the sword? Now, if the true God (and not Satan) had given the mission to Joan, she would not have been captured later and tried and then executed on trumped up charges!  Can someone now see the fallacy in the so-called visions and apparitions?  These latter-day Christian features are nothing but things actuated by Satan. -- Frank Monye, Owerre-Olubor