Interesting thoughts.
Some of my own:
If somebody makes something up and it gets repeated often enough and the originator is accepted as reliable, eventually the event will be accepted as actually having happened.
I haven't seen any scientifically verified miracles - the standards of the Vatican seem fairly stringent but not very scientific.
As the old saying goes, sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic (or something like that). Which takes me to another thought - that since most people don't have much of a clue about integrated circuits, deep level computer programming, radio waves, etc, they on some level regard technology that utilizes such things as magic - not a good thing, in my opinion.
And when I read your quote from JCSS, I thought Judas was speaking to Bush. ;)
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