(February 13, 2015 at 3:02 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's very telling that the religious have to go through such mental gymnastics to explain diseases and natural disasters, where as with the non-religious there is no need to explain it away or have any sort of apologetic program. These things just are part of the natural world.
Yes and by equating GOD = NATURE
then you are right there is no need to overexplain
As for Nestor's questions about what orange was referring to
the NATURAL pure state is to be healthy and in harmony.
That's the DEFAULT. So the state of imbalance or disease etc
indicates something is off kilter or not perfect.
This is what leads to disease:
Normally the human mind and body is designed to heal itself.
What allows cancer or other diseases to take over, is some
weakened or compromised state, or introduction of an injury,
virus, etc. that causes infection, disease, etc.
When we are in harmony with our natural healing and all our
available resources (ie not an overage of resources in one area and lack of access or poverty in another), then we can treat these ills,
whether they came about by human fault, or accident, etc.
As long as we have more diseases or ills than we can treat,
this tells us we are NOT in perfect harmony or health as a society,
but we can be doing more to correct and prevent causes,
and remedy the effects, to restore a closer to natural balance.
