(August 18, 2013 at 6:54 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Don't you think it a little weird that a supposedly good man with all these magical powers of healing didn't heal all the lepers? Whoever wrote that particular story didn't understand the concept of magical healing powers, or "good people".
Right. The character only healed the people he happened to bump into, instead of curing all leprosy, all blindness, raising all the dead etc. That would at least be more impressive than some peripatetic wizard working his wonders while trying (and succeeding) not to be noticed by history.
Ah, but then we have to face the inevitable question of why miracles on this scale are not seen today. No wonder the faithful have to rely solely on a book to underpin their faith. Their god is known to act solely within its pages.
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.'
