Topic: Health and Religion - page 105. (Read 210869 times)

And many doctors will tell you about the miracle healings when people pray, healings that they have no idea why they came about.

Sometimes, the human body is able to fight back the viruses and bacteria which causes the diseases. This immunity varies from person to person. It has nothing to do with prayer or religious belief.

As I wrote you in a previous post, my mother died by cancer at 69. She was a believer, she was utterly religious and what you could call an "perfect christian". She attended the mass every sunday, worked for the local church and so on. I'm sure she prayed until her last breath but she eventually died.

I don't want to start a new back-to-back game of replies with you, but I would like to know where your god was when she was praying him to save her life, and what was his plan for her. Eternal afterlife? Jesus salvation? Mhmm...  

Isn't simpler telling that god doesn't exists, and all you religious people are delusional? Seems way more realistic.

And many doctors will tell you about the miracle healings when people pray, healings that they have no idea why they came about.

And many doctors will tell you about the miracle healings when people pray, healings that they have no idea why they came about.

"People now a days prefer to go to doctor first before praying." they maybe don't prefer but they have to if they don't want that illness to get worse or die, and also it's known to work unlike using words to ask air to help you.

We are now living in a new technology, nothing is impossible now, kn terms of health, the new technology applies already. Most people now depends on medicine. People now a days prefer to go to doctor first before praying. And the practice of healing prayer now becomes eldom because many of us believe that modern trchnology on healing is what we need. praying and going to doctor for your health can be done simultaneosly.

A far better approach is to take advantage of modern medicine when you get sick. Medicine is good at managing and mitigating serious illness. If you develop a major medical problem the best person to see is a physician as that will be the person with the best chance of helping you.

Prayer has its place but praying for divine intervention instead of going to the doctor is a lot like praying for divine intervention to stop the flooding caused by a broken pipe. Nothing is impossible but a better outcome will likely result from finding and shutting off the water main.

That is a very good tutorials I believed  some christian prefare prayers to hospital when they are sick also in some countries they prefare traditional way of healing for their health needs

Please don't be too hard on Coincube. I probably wouldn't have looked if all there was was a link. It was a very interesting article. Benefits to the social animal by socializing in religious atmosphere.

That is a very good tutorials I believed  some christian prefare prayers to hospital when they are sick also in some countries they prefare traditional way of healing for their health needs

Nature is amoral. Nature knows nothing of good and evil. In nature there is one rule—survival of the fittest. There is no right, only might. If a creature is weak, kill it. Only human beings could have moral rules such as, "If it is weak, protect it." Only human beings can feel themselves ethically obligated to strangers.
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Nature allows you to act naturally, i.e., do only what you want you to do, without moral restraints; God does not. Nature lets you act naturally - and it is as natural to kill, rape, and enslave as it is to love.
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One of the vital elements in the ethical monotheist revolution was its repudiation of nature as god. The evolution of civilization and morality have depended in large part on desanctifying nature.
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Civilizations that equated gods with nature—a characteristic of all primitive societies—or that worshipped nature did not evolve.
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Words cannot convey the magnitude of the change wrought by the Bible's introduction into the world of a God who rules the universe morally.

To hold that God is the Source and Sustainer of moral values is to insist upon an objective status for ethical ideals. They are not the impulsive fabrication of human minds, but are grounded in the very bedrock of creation. Moral laws have objective validity similar to the laws of physics. They are not our invention, but it is for us to discover them. Just as it would be foolish to defy the law of gravity and hope to escape its consequences, so is it perilous to presume that a human infant can grow to emotional maturity without ever being loved or cared for. In both cases the penalty for ignoring the law is a natural consequence of defying the given realities of the universe. The uniqueness of God in this context is the complex but delicate blend of both physical and spiritual reality in a single deity which accounts for the balance, harmony and order of nature within us and without.

Ethical monotheism is not just a way of talking about God. It is a way of understanding human experience; it is a way of organizing the world in which we live. It is a faith that attempts to explain what we do not know by beginning with what we do know. We do know our awareness of this world is rooted in a unity of our own senses. We do know that defiance of moral law invites a disaster as devastating as any contempt for the laws of physics or chemistry or biology.

Still here replying to this hopelessly atheist? Don't you have a "holy mass" waiting for you in your local church?
Are you still convinced that you will deceive me, eventually? Save some dignity, stop playing with me, you won't win this race!