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...times, Kfar Shaul has housed two or three Messiahs at once. "But they don't fight about it," says Kalian. "They are so sure that they are each the one and that the others will be revealed sooner or later as frauds." The hospital's job is not to cure these patients but to calm them down, sometimes using antipsychotic drugs, so that they can return home and be treated in a more familiar environment. There have been a few escapes from the facility, notably that of "Samson," a burly Canadian who demonstrated his Old Testament credentials by ripping...
...talked about his miraculous powers, so it would seem churlish for academics, at a distance of 2,000 years, to dismiss them outright. But liberal theologians are prepared to reduce the role of Christ to that of a placebo: people's belief in his healing power was enough to cure ailments that were psychosomatic to begin with...
They apply criteria established in the 1700s by Pope Benedict XIV: among them, that the disease was serious; that there was objective proof of its existence; that other treatments failed; and that the cure was rapid and lasting. Any one can be a stumbling block. Pain, explains Ensoli, means little: "Someone might say he feels bad, but how do you measure that?" Leukemia remissions are not considered until they have lasted a decade. A cure attributable to human effort, however prayed for, is insufficient. "Sometimes we have cases that you could call exceptional, but that's not enough." says Ensoli...
Pilon believes that as medical science and psychology uncover rational explanations for more cures, it becomes increasingly difficult to name something a miracle. He regrets the trend and, without relaxing his own stringent standards, suggests that the church give more importance to instances where the divine can be said to have been present in a cure, without being its sole explanation. "Ordinary Christians want to see the action of God," he says bluntly. "People are hungry for signs...
After cracking a joke about someone else's weight, he is hoisted up to bring Don Juan down. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship as doctor and lunatic are whisked away to a mental hospital to "cure" the delusions of the young romancer. Within days, Jack is swept into the world of his patient, whom he comes wholeheartedly to believe is truly the legend he claims...