The Null Device

Australia now has its own religious "miracle". Not quite the Blessed Virgin Mary in a tortilla, but a cross of light has appeared in a frosted window in the small central Victorian town of Baringhup. The killjoys from the Australian Skeptics, always eager to pour the cold water of reason onto outbursts of religious mania, say it is an illusion caused by the refraction of light; though that probably won't stop the pilgrims from coming to behold the sign of (the end of the world / the glorious new age / the Second Coming / whatever).

Believers will point out that dozens of identical crosses of light have been mysteriously appearing all over the world in the past decade or so, which must be a sign of a greater force sending a message to the faithful, rather than a simple natural phenomenon. Though one could equally ask why any greater intelligence worth its salt would bother putting glowing light-refraction crosses onto windows, images of the BVM onto automobile mufflers, and so on, unless it finds the reactions of the credulous entertaining.

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