Is God really real or are people simply deluded?

[RobertE]

I have been an Epileptic for a very long time and for me, the very symptoms in that story mirror those of epilepsy. This is short made me quite angry. I have heard many stories in where Catholics in Africa tried to exorcise those who had Epileptic seizures up until recently.

As with everything in life, christianity has introduced a whole new level of stupid. The ancient Greeks and Romans in their majority also connected epilepsy with spirits, but they also associated it with the presence of genius and the divine. There's one notable exemption though and that's Hippocrates, who rightfully assumed that it's an ailment originating in the brain.

Leave it to Christians to bring evil into it.

You could have just stated the bolded part and I would still have given you kudos. A very valid point, and I guess it is open to interpretation. I can remember telling a muslim that I had it, and she didn't want me working next to her, and that was back in 2010. Either way, the way I see it is this. Jesus, who probably your local neighbourhood joe with an education saw someone having a seizure and decided to go and help. He tried to restrain him and boom...2 minutes later, the kid is normal. Once this happened, everyone was amazed and thought he had some special powers. In reality, the seizure just took its natural course and that is that.

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Oh yeah, many of them are utter hypocrites. They live their life just like an atheist. Which is great, I'm not complaining. I want them to be as far as possible away from their bible, because it makes them better people.

The only way they are not hypocrites is if they don't claim that the bible is divinely inspired. Then they're just sort of spiritual jesusites or something, vaguely calling themselves christian.

They "believe in believing" but clearly do not actually believe praying is gonna do shit, so they do it as an afterthought to real medicine.

There is a hint of a Mr Krauss coming out of you there...