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Evidence for Believing
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(October 7, 2019 at 2:27 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: The thing with sick people visiting Lourdes and other holy shrines for healing is that the numbers work against them. For instance, in this video religious claim is that out of all the millions of people visiting Lourdes for many years there has been 66 "confirmed healings", which, let's face it, doesn't make any positive impression at all.




Lourdes water didn't cure my little brother when I was in Catholic School (1st Grade), despite the pure faith of my youth and the grandiose claims of the nuns. That may have been the first strike against religion on my long ascent to atheism.
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lot's of wheelchairs found at Lourdes bot no wooden legs.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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(October 7, 2019 at 8:12 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Lourdes water didn't cure my little brother when I was in Catholic School (1st Grade), despite the pure faith of my youth and the grandiose claims of the nuns.

Exactly! Every day in the world 15 thousand kids under 5 years old dies in unbelievable pain and suffering from parents who are mostly religious, who pray for them and yet they still die. And is there any prayer more unselfish and honest than parent praying for his or hers small child?


(October 7, 2019 at 8:12 am)Cod Wrote: 66 isn't bad actually, when you consider that he's got a hell of a lot on his plate. 

That's 0.000825%. If 80k people visits Lourdes each year for 100 years and in all this time there has been 66 miraculous healings, that means that out of all people who visited Lourdes 0.000825% got healed by miracle.
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Inq has decided that gap arguments are poor ones.  That makes any discussion of the allegedly miraculous uninformative. It wouldn't matter if there were billions of "confirmed" cases of the supernatural every second. None of them actually certify the supernatural, or a god.
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  • Gods ways are mysterious
  • Who are you to judge him?
  • Dont try god!
  • You didnt pray hard enough
  • Prayer isnt guaranteed to succeed, that would be too easy
  • Free will
  • Dead kids end up in heaven
  • Man has sinned and has to suffer
  • etc
  • pp
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(October 7, 2019 at 11:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(October 7, 2019 at 8:12 am)Cod Wrote: 66 isn't bad actually, when you consider that he's got a hell of a lot on his plate. 

That's 0.000825%. If 80k people visits Lourdes each year for 100 years and in all this time there has been 66 miraculous healings, that means that out of all people who visited Lourdes 0.000825% got healed by miracle.

Wiki has this info:

An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860, and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 69 healings considered miraculous.

So, the actual percentage is 0.0000345%.

So, it is even worse.

And we all know how reliable the Catholic Church's reporting is Angel

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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(October 7, 2019 at 12:53 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:
(October 7, 2019 at 11:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: That's 0.000825%. If 80k people visits Lourdes each year for 100 years and in all this time there has been 66 miraculous healings, that means that out of all people who visited Lourdes 0.000825% got healed by miracle.

Wiki has this info:

An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860, and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 69 healings considered miraculous.

So, the actual percentage is 0.0000345%.

So, it is even worse.

And we all know how reliable the Catholic Church's reporting is  Angel



Hey!   God is to be found in lost decimals.
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(October 7, 2019 at 12:53 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:
(October 7, 2019 at 11:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: That's 0.000825%. If 80k people visits Lourdes each year for 100 years and in all this time there has been 66 miraculous healings, that means that out of all people who visited Lourdes 0.000825% got healed by miracle.

Wiki has this info:

An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860, and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 69 healings considered miraculous.

So, the actual percentage is 0.0000345%.

So, it is even worse.

And we all know how reliable the Catholic Church's reporting is  Angel

Well, of course it's a low percentage.  That's what makes them miracles.

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(October 7, 2019 at 2:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 7, 2019 at 12:53 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Wiki has this info:

An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860, and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 69 healings considered miraculous.

So, the actual percentage is 0.0000345%.

So, it is even worse.

And we all know how reliable the Catholic Church's reporting is  Angel

Well, of course it's a low percentage.  That's what makes them miracles.

Boru

The miracle would be that all 200 million were healed.

But here's the thing, this God put everything into motion so that no matter what happens, this is the way he wanted it to happen, no matter how much evil and horrible shit happens, this is how he wants it. No matter if everyone goes to hell and no one gets in heaven, that's just the way it goes.

So he doesn't do miracles, because a miracle would be something that went against how he wanted things to go.

He doesn't listen to prayer because prayer is asking him to change his plan.

And from a deterministic point of view, everything will only happen one particular way anyway. It can only happen this one way, so it's a moot point if a god exists or not.

Nothing changes in the way the universe unfolds.
A god is therefore irrelevant.
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(October 7, 2019 at 6:23 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: The miracle would be that all 200 million were healed.

But here's the thing, this God put everything into motion so that no matter what happens, this is the way he wanted it to happen, no matter how much evil and horrible shit happens, this is how he wants it. No matter if everyone goes to hell and no one gets in heaven, that's just the way it goes.

So he doesn't do miracles, because a miracle would be something that went against how he wanted things to go.

He doesn't listen to prayer because prayer is asking him to change his plan.

And from a deterministic point of view, everything will only happen one particular way anyway. It can only happen this one way, so it's a moot point if a god exists or not.

Nothing changes in the way the universe unfolds.
A god is therefore irrelevant.

This makes me wonder about the idea that a God would only be good or relevant to the extent that it satisfied our individual desires. Give me what I want or I won't believe any more. 

Maybe this is a modern view of things -- a good life depends on getting my personal wants satisfied. Society is good insofar as they give me what I ask for. Is it just consumerist? 

I suspect that people may have been more humble in earlier times. "Not My Will, But Thine, Be Done." Prayer could be used to adjust the thoughts of the person praying, to be less selfish and get in line with the general good. 

It means that demanding cures at a shrine wouldn't be proof of anything.
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