Do miracles really still occur today, in our modern, post-biblical era world? According to leading Republican Senator Marco Rubio, they do. Following Donald Trump’s incredibly close shave with death, when a sniper’s bullet came within a centimetre or two of blowing his brains out, Rubio declared on X that Trump had been saved by God:
Was the Senator just speaking metaphorically? Probably not. Here’s another, more explicitly literal-minded tweet, from Charlie Kirk, a well-known conservative political commentator in the U.S.:
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