People that claim to have experience miraculous healing or giving eye-witness accounts of such, plague me all the time. Now I could write a long-ass blog explaining the many scientific studies done on prayer as well as the power of the mind. namely: the placebo effect. But I won't as I am very tired. There is one simple question however that I ask theists when they mention healing and it is quite simple:
Since god is such a miraculous healer, why doesn't he heal amputees?
Now you might say oh Antonio what a stupid question, but stop for a moment and think about it. All these so called miracles that happened ALWAYS occur on levels we cannot see. example cancer patients ( I personally know a secular friend who is a cancer survivor, just to prove a point.) as well as people with migraines, high blood pressure, diabetes...it's almost NEVER something superficial. Now ask Mr. Theist, why won't god heal amputees? Are they not worthy of his healing? or is it just that your god is imaginary?
sorry for the short, choppy blog but I'm drained
good night, and god bless XD
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Comment by booklover on June 8, 2011 at 6:59am
Comment by John Camilli on June 8, 2011 at 3:52am
Comment by booklover on June 6, 2011 at 5:16am
Comment by Antonio Chambers on June 3, 2011 at 11:32am
Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on June 3, 2011 at 11:25am
Comment by Glen Rosenberg on June 3, 2011 at 11:11am Grace,
I have a friend who used to make wierd complaints about how he was feeling. I was pretty sure it was psychosomatic. The first doc he saw said it was psychosomatic. He said it was MS and unfortunately the second opinion doc confirmed his suspicion.
And there is harm number 2879 committed by religion-thanks for putting a damper on medicine. The catholic church has been fighting tooth and nail the progress of medicine beginning with early scientists who had to surreptitiously dig up bodies and continuing through to the present with their opposition to stem cell research. Exploration of this topic alone is instructive and reason to fight the church.
I feel a rant coming on. So I will stop and simply wish for science to get a move on and improve your condition.
Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on June 3, 2011 at 10:47am
Comment by Glen Rosenberg on June 3, 2011 at 8:38am Grace,
Have you investigated stem cell treatment for MS? I remember reading something about it.
Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on June 3, 2011 at 3:31am I think having a positive mindset can help a person to reach their goals and deal with their health problems better. However, I have an aunt who also has MS and she is the most positive person around, but her MS is still about as bad as it gets in spite of her positive attitude.
As for prayer, it is positive thinking in a way or hoping. In the sense, it is probably more productive to set your mind on what you want instead of what you don't want. I don't believe in instantaneous healing though. Of course, there are a lot of religious people (who don't make it on tv lol) believe that's just snake oil, too.
Comment by John Camilli on June 3, 2011 at 1:55am Lol, yeah I say go back to leeching people. That was good science!
Grace, yeah I wouldn't rely on it either. I think there might be something to the idea that we have limited control over directing the various frequencies given off by our brains, but I would guess its probably a very, very rudamentary control that couldn't really be applied to causing specific things to happen. I don't think it comes anywhere close to something that could be called telekinesis or telepathy, although I do think the potential is there if we find a way boost our broadcast signal, so to speak, with bio-machinery. I wouldn't call it supernatural, but physics pretty much allows that matter and energy can be interchanged from any type to any other type, if we find the right process of manipulation.
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