For those that don't want to watch Huggy's BS, essentially, in 1958, Marilyn Hickey was 'healed' by evangelical pastor William Branham. Doctors had told Hickey she wouldn't be able to conceive, but he laid hands upon her and invoked Christ, yadda yadda yadda.
She wasn't 'healed' until 10 years later, when she actually got pregnant.
People like Huggy think this is the power of Christ performing a miracle. Those of us with functioning brains realize that medical science in the late 1950s was still pretty sketchy, and that there's a far better chance that the doctor were simply wrong in her case than anything miraculous happening. False positives are, and have always been, a thing.
And, of course, if faith healing was actually a thing, it would be used on a wide scale. Why have doctors if holy people can cure you? Surely there are people just as devout as Hickey and/or Branham that haven't had their maladies healed simply through ritual.
So, yeah, it's dumb and idiotic, and doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny. Par for the course.
She wasn't 'healed' until 10 years later, when she actually got pregnant.
People like Huggy think this is the power of Christ performing a miracle. Those of us with functioning brains realize that medical science in the late 1950s was still pretty sketchy, and that there's a far better chance that the doctor were simply wrong in her case than anything miraculous happening. False positives are, and have always been, a thing.
And, of course, if faith healing was actually a thing, it would be used on a wide scale. Why have doctors if holy people can cure you? Surely there are people just as devout as Hickey and/or Branham that haven't had their maladies healed simply through ritual.
So, yeah, it's dumb and idiotic, and doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny. Par for the course.
