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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 6, 2012 at 1:13pm

@Sky - I thought that was Katrina - New Orleans had just allowed a Gay Pride Parade a few weeks before. If god hates Gays, why did he make them?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 6, 2012 at 5:31pm

We hate farts, but we make them anyway. Maybe it's kinda the same thing(?).

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 6, 2012 at 5:30pm

I stand corrected.

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Permalink Reply by Skycomet the Fallen Angel on August 6, 2012 at 12:12pm

Here's one of my favorites http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/

It's a question no theist can give a GOOD answer for. Why WON'T God heal amputees?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 6, 2012 at 12:39pm

ANSW: Because he likes 'em that way.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 6, 2012 at 1:28pm

@Sky - I watched Mel (Mad Max) Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" on DVD last week at my daughter's (a dyed-in-the-wool, washed-in-the-blood Christian - where did I go wrong?!) last weekend, and it was interesting, having seen Jim Caviezel as the former Black Ops guy, John Reese from TV's "Person of Interest" and knowing that he will be playing Superman next Summer in theaters, as Yeshua (Jesus, for you Greek-speakers).

But I was left with a question - in the last scene of the movie, you see the stone rolled away from the sepulcher, the burial linen folded neatly, and just a glimpse of the bare ass of Yeshua as he moves across the camera frame to leave the tomb. As he does so, he swings his hand into view, and we see through it, via a nailhole in his hand.

My question, was how is it he could heal lepers, the blind, the crippled, and rise from the dead, but couldn't heal the hole in his hand?

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 6, 2012 at 1:31pm

Miracles necessarily involve the impossible suspension of the laws of physics. Belief in miracles involves the suspension of rational, logical thought.

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Permalink Reply by Yahweh on August 7, 2012 at 9:30am

For the ones that died of cancer would be because they never prayed as hard as the one who got cured. That is what I would imagine theist would say.

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Permalink Reply by Milos Cakovan on August 7, 2012 at 11:08am

Are there still miracles happening today? Saints are still being named.

No. There are no miracles happening today. There have never been any miracles happening ever.

When someone's severed leg spontaneously grows back, then it MIGHT be a miracle, but it will still probably be explained by natural events.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 7, 2012 at 11:46am

You know Milos, there are animals capable of reconstituting lost body parts - there should be a way for Humans to harness that ability.

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Permalink Reply by Milos Cakovan on August 7, 2012 at 3:40pm

Exactly.

And if we will ever be able to do that, it will be through human means, and science. Not through the invisible sky daddy or his lich, demigod son.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 7, 2012 at 5:49pm

Agree completely.

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