(August 13, 2014 at 1:36 am)Huggy74 Wrote: responding to the part in bold.
Why, because you can't respond to the rest of it? Interesting

(August 13, 2014 at 1:36 am)Huggy74 Wrote: You do realize what a placebo is right? It's a fake treatment, meaning there was no actual medical treatment preformed and yet the patients health improved. the "placebo effect" contributes this to the faith of the patient.
Then we're agreed: faith healing = placebo = fake treatment. That the patients' health improved has nothing to do with the 'treatment' and everything to do with the patient. Where is "God" in this picture?
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.'