(October 7, 2019 at 2:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 7, 2019 at 12:53 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Wiki has this info:
An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860, and the Roman Catholic Church has officially recognized 69 healings considered miraculous.
So, the actual percentage is 0.0000345%.
So, it is even worse.
And we all know how reliable the Catholic Church's reporting is
Well, of course it's a low percentage. That's what makes them miracles.
Boru
The miracle would be that all 200 million were healed.
But here's the thing, this God put everything into motion so that no matter what happens, this is the way he wanted it to happen, no matter how much evil and horrible shit happens, this is how he wants it. No matter if everyone goes to hell and no one gets in heaven, that's just the way it goes.
So he doesn't do miracles, because a miracle would be something that went against how he wanted things to go.
He doesn't listen to prayer because prayer is asking him to change his plan.
And from a deterministic point of view, everything will only happen one particular way anyway. It can only happen this one way, so it's a moot point if a god exists or not.
Nothing changes in the way the universe unfolds.
A god is therefore irrelevant.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result