[Why aren't Evangelical faith healers putting doctors out of business?]
because there are plenty of people who would rather take drugs or go under the knife than know and feel God's love
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"because there are plenty of people who would rather take drugs or go under the knife than know and feel God's love"
And in this case God's love is equal to being fleeced by charlatans such as Peter Popoff, Todd Bentley, Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn, and Peter Youngren. Way to go, asshole.
Hey, how about I sell you my patented Prayer Cloths while I'm at it? And maybe some Miracle Spring Water? Feel the power of JE$U$ CHRI$T!
Ah, yes, of course, because there are no Christians in hospitals? There are only atheists and people of other religions?
Or are the Christians in hospitals just not "True Christians"? They are the kind of Christians who don't want to feel God's love?
because there are plenty of people who would rather take drugs or go under the knife than know and feel God's love
That doesn't answer the question that's been put to you. If faith healing was as effective as advertised then no one in this country would have any use for a doctor or a psychiatrist. So why aren't there roving bands of faith healers brining health and sanity to the sick? I'll tell you why: Because faith healing is bulls***. I've got three fatal diseases right now and if I thought for a second that having some polyester suit-wearing goomba put his hands on me would change that I'd be first in line.
I'm with Beeblebrox.
I have a non-curable condition that is going to require multiple surgeries over the course of my lifetime. Who should I trust to help me? Some hypothetical Sky Daddy who probably wouldn't give a shit even if he did exist, or my very talented, very qualified and very *real* specialist?
Decisions, decisions...
Because we tried faith with the Plague and a third of the human population of Europe died. Some of them crawled to the church on their knees to beg God to spare them.
Modern doctors can cure it with five bucks worth of streptomycin.
God's love = kiss my ass or suffer eternal torture.
Yep, I'd rather take drugs and/or go under the knife than feel that kind of love and I'm not limiting that to medical stuff, either.
The introductory question is excellent. If faith healers really did having healing abilities like a D&D Cleric (remove disease, remove blindness/deafness, regenerate , etc.), it should make a dent in the number of people visiting doctors.
And if these healers were had genuine healing powers, they should be going around healing every sick person they encounter without asking for one thin dime!
My mom almost died from appendicitis. Prayer and an imaginary sky daddy wouldn't have done SHIT, she needed surgery to remove it, asshole.
And I am sure we all know someone who was so terminally ill that they needed to take a pill of basically watered-down heroin XD just to live their last few days without paralyzing pain.
I like being able to phone my father once in a while.
He had prostate cancer. He went to a doctor. He no longer has prostate cancer.
If he had gone to a preacher instead, I wouldnt be phoning him. I'd be visiting his grave.
Almost all religious ministers are con-men (I concede a few are honestly deluded) but faith healers are the lowest of the low. They prey on the sick, elderly and dying, taking their tithes while knowing their whole act is a sham. Scum, the lot of them.
Luigi collapsed on the sidewalk. A man rushed up to him and said "I'm a doctor - can I help you?" Luigi said "No, that's OK - the Lord will take care of me". A little while later, a cop pulled up and said "Can I help you?" Luigi said "No, that's OK - the Lord will take care of me". Later, an ambulance arrived and they said "we'll take you to the hospital". Luigi said "No, that's OK - the Lord will take care of me". Luigi died. When he arrived in heaven, he went up to God and said "how could you let me die after I showed such faith in you?" God said "I sent a doctor and two cars to help you. What'd you expect?"
[I know ... it's the old "preacher in a flood" joke ...]
Or it could be because the faith" healers" tend to be either delusional or corrupt. And, in either case, have yet to make a documented case of faith-healing - healith without a ready physical explanation.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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