(April 22, 2012 at 5:09 pm)deciple Wrote: In my opinion the people who will not allow blood transfusions especially for children because of so called "faith" are nothing more than idiots.
Ave, deciple! Like everyone else, I agree with you here. Unfortunately, and I'm not trying to be funny, you go skidding off the rails after this point.
(April 22, 2012 at 5:09 pm)deciple Wrote: I believe that prayer is always a good thing but so is medicine and medical attention.
Funny thing is, when prayer is actually tested, it is indistinguishable from blind chance. Pray for something non-specific - a nice day, or someone's health - and it either works (answered prayer) or it doesn't (God's will). Pray for something unambiguous - let's say, turn Ozzy, my parents' dog, into a naked woman - and it never works.
Plus, if you're advocating medical attention, and quite right too, what place prayer anyway?
(April 22, 2012 at 5:09 pm)deciple Wrote: He gave us the knowledge on how to to blood transfusions, kidney transplants and the like.
Yes... try saying that, face to face, to a doctor with all his/her years of medical training and dedicated service. They may just forget their Hippocratic Oath and rip your nads off.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
