(March 7, 2011 at 3:59 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I was unaware that there were sacred rivers in Christianity. I thought that was a mostly Hindu idea, like the Ganges river...well, you learn something new everyday.
What gets me is that people flock to this destination like they have free hookers. Roughly FIVE MILLION people visit this "shrine" every year! Many of them looking for a cure! But look at the odds! There have been 67 "confirmed" cases of a "miracle cure" at Lourdes. Approximately 200 MILLION people have been dipped in the "healing" waters. This is a success rate of .0000335%, or roughly one in THREE MILLION! You have better odds of hitting the jackpot on a scratch-off ticket!
Imagine that you have some disease and the doctor offers a treatment option. He tells you that you must fly to France to receive this treatment, which will cost thousands of dollars for airfare, hotel, food, etc... but the treatment itself is free and painless! Sounds good, right? Then you ask the doctor about the success rate of this treatment. He tells you about one person in three million receives a complete cure.
Would you even bother to go get this treatment? Your odds of dying in a plane crash or auto accident on the way to (or from) the treatment facility are much greater than the odds that the treatment will work. Not to mention, with one chance in 3 million, how do they know it is the TREATMENT that is the cure?
And yet, the deluded dimbulbs flock by the thousands. Must be nice to be a hotel owner there.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
