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Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on August 7, 2010 at 2:30pm

Nice bunch of people to pray that someone gets cancer.

Permalink Reply by qnr on August 7, 2010 at 2:43pm

Pretty amazing. An omniscient, omnipotent bad-tempered voyeur who takes 30 years to act against something that's supposedly very important to it, and this group actually thinks that it's something to be crowing about?

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on August 7, 2010 at 3:03pm

You know lots of theists are going to take credit if Hitchens dies of cancer.

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on August 7, 2010 at 3:18pm

People have already come up to him and told him he got his just desserts.

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on August 7, 2010 at 3:20pm

Sure he did...so did Jerry Falwell and Oral Roberts!

Permalink Reply by Lior on August 7, 2010 at 9:29pm

Hey god created leukemia , he has it trade marked, so i guess he gets to use it any which way he pleases , including giving it to doctors, though as a theist i would have accepted something a bit more grand from the creator of the universe, like a fire tornado destroying the clinic, or maybe flying skulls descending on the medical staff and eating their faces

Permalink Reply by qnr on August 8, 2010 at 3:36pm

I'd think that that "as a theist" was meant more in the sense of "if you're a theist, you'd want something more substantial."

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on August 8, 2010 at 4:19pm

That's how I read it as well.

Permalink Reply by Raizinette on August 8, 2010 at 4:54pm

How lovely and warm these sweet hearted christians..... NOT!


Hopefully the doctor will get better and continue his work or maybe someone else can carry on the task of helping these women.

Permalink Reply by John Secular Smith on August 8, 2010 at 6:03pm

Hey, if what they say is true they all need to be locked up in prison for attempted murder...right?

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on August 8, 2010 at 6:11pm

You'd think.

Permalink Reply by John Secular Smith on August 8, 2010 at 6:21pm

To me it has always been a church-state separation issue. The state shouldn't be taking a position on whether or not prayer can be used to call a god to smite someone. All the government knows is that there are a group of terrorists doing something they think will work to kill someone. The fact that the government isn't acting is a sign that the government doesn't think prayer works...and is in fact taking a position that prayer fails.

Yet at the same time, the government tries to play the "we can't judge prayer" when children die due to lack of medical care...which is something the government can judge. The government can't and shouldn't say "don't pray for your kid to get better" but the government can say "reasonable parents use medicine at the least."