[Question: Can prayer cure cancer?]
Answer:
No, but God can, if he will. Most times when cancer is healed, God uses normal medical treatments to do it, though, so don't refuse treatment and then blame God for not curing someone's cancer.
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"[Question: Can prayer win at roulette?]
Answer:
No, but God can, if he will. Most times when you win at roulette, God uses normal probability to do it, though, so don't refuse to play and then blame God for not winning."
There. Fixed.
"Most times when cancer is healed, God uses normal medical treatments to do it..."
Yeah, these were treatments that humans developed and used.
Sooo... god will only cure you if he feels like it? What a lazy prick.
"god, please cure my incredibly painful ailment."
Most times when cancer is healed, God uses normal medical treatments to do it
And up until the 20th century, He didn't do anything - He just let people die. Then when humans developed chemo and radiation, all of a sudden He got off His ass and decided to start curing people. And when they developed early detection tests like PSA and ACE blood tests, He really got going.
Of course, maybe God just punishes ignorance. But fundies don't want to hear that - that would mean they actually have to go to school and work, as opposed to saying prayers and kissing Jesus' ass.
Oh, that tricky God. Pretending that those natural phenomenon, finely tuned medical procedures, and human beings are behind his sporadically effectual work. He is a cunning one, he is.
@GreenEyedLilo Not too bad--at least he's not urging people to forgo chemo in favor of prayer or telling his friend about this great pastor he's got who will knee a cancer patient in the gut to heal him.
You shouldn't bag out this comment, at least the person isn't stupid enough to rely on God, they believe God gets leads people to help through medicine, which is a good thing.
No, ABVD cures cancer, twerp!
(so sayeth a survivor...)
My mother survived her lymphoma because of chemotherapy; 12 years later, she's still cancer-free, and I thank medical science for that. Your pitiful god had nothing to do with it.
In fact, many forms of cancer are becoming chronic illnesses rather than fatal ones. And you know who we can thank for that? Richard Nixon and his War on Cancer. I'd much rather thank Tricky Dick than the Almighty Arse.
so let me get this straight: Prayer works, but it doesnt really work unless you find human (materialistic) methods to acheive your goal. Also, God can cause a miracle, but you have to utilize materialistic and scientific methods to cure cancer. Once the cancer is cured, be sure to thank God alone for healing you.
Ok, got it!
*slams head into desk to come back to reality*
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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