#1. It was a very calm day and the recently flooded plain gave the illusion of walking on water?

#2; At a time when we feared the power of growing communism, and someone associated them with being "godless" (they had more churches per person than we did) a few paranoids thought "In god we trust" on our pledge and our money would help. It did stall the demise of the #religuous in America for a while.

#3.Mary M (not his mother, his lover; the woman who he saved from being 'stoned to death" and allegedly had kids with) was the alleged last person to see Jesus...but because she was a woman the church thought she was "hysterical" she wasn't allowed to write any biblical passages. Same true for most women of the church, even to this day. The root word of Hysterics is Womb (greek). Women who were intelligent were, for most of history, considered "hysterical" (a disease of the mind caused by their wombs) or "witches".

Planetary objects? Don't get me started.

Galileo went through an exhaustive and famous trial for saying the sun didn't rise, that we moved by both spinning and orbiting the sun. He ended up under "house arrest" and all his telescopic equipment was removed. It's estimated that tens, if not hundreds of millions of intelligent science-oriented Witches, Alchemists, and Warlocks were put to death because they didn't "believe".

Trial of Galileo - Famous Trials
[famous-trials.com]