Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 3815 Local time: 12:13 PM Location: Cin City, OH!
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:32 am Post subject:
My best guesses about all of these are as follows.
First video:
Parents/heart murmur - Either a misdiagnosis to begin with, or a sponteneous recovery exaggerated by the parents and the reporter. It's worth noting that a quick Google search reveals that spontaneous recovery from heart murmurs is quite unremarkable in infants.
Jesus de la Krispykreme - Lying asshole.
Gimp who became a churchgoing gimp - I have no explanation for this, and think this pretty much has to be a miracle.
Second video: Fraud.
Third video: Christians always like to talk about how wonderful doves are, and what a great omen they are with their olive branches. However, when one shits on a Christian's car, it's just a fucking pigeon. This was also a mere pigeon and thus not a miracle.
But in all seriousness, it was probably just a speck of something flying by and reflecting light. Notice that only one of them claims to have seen this "ball of fire" beforehand. However, there's a general rule about flying balls of fire, and it's that people tend to notice them easily (and write songs about them with lots of piano glissandos). If it had been a Coast to Coast fan rather than a group of Christian nutters, they would probably be screaming either "UFO sighting!" or "ghost sighting!" _________________
Why do you need miracles? Aren't you admitting that gawd fucked up in the first place?
MY BABY WAS CURED BY A MIRACLE! Wasn't your baby a gift from gawd?!
I was sick to death hearing about miracles AFTER the OKC bombing. AFTER the bomb went off gawd did this! And AFTER the bomb went off jebus did that! Miracles were just falling out of their asses AFTER little Timmy's bomb went off. Don't get me started Mr_C!
Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 540 Local time: 9:13 PM Location: The Island of Koridai
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:34 am Post subject:
About the first video....If God loves his followers so much and wants to reward them for all eternity, why does he let them get cancer or "Burning Wrists Syndrome"? Why not keep them safe so they can do their job on Earth in peace?
I'd also like to point out how often people try to find miracles where there are none. A baby being rescued from a fire is human perseverance. A crippled person being given artificial limbs is modern technology. A tumor being removed is medical science. _________________ Regarding creationists: Aren't these the same people who gave us alchemy and astrology, and who told us the earth, besides being flat, was at the center of the universe? Why don't we just kill these fucking people? ~George Carlin
Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 6756 Local time: 8:13 PM Location: Pale Blue Dot
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:57 am Post subject:
I posted these at home and now that I'm at work, I can't see the youtube's...
Somebody tell me - did I post the one about the girl that got burned? _________________ "If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
Carl Sagan
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Beamishboy: Let me tell you what the real pink unicorn is - it's the erroneous belief (based on atheistic faith) that Christians must be bound by the Bible.
Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 4280 Local time: 2:13 AM
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:52 am Post subject:
Moloth wrote:
ah, the "99 orphans" syndrome...
an orphanage with 100 orphans burns down. 99 burn to death, while 1 makes it out alive...
and suddenly, "praise Jesus! its a blessing! its a miracle!"
sick fucks.
More recently referred to as "9/11 syndrome". What a miracle that only 3,000 people were burned and crushed to death. The "WTC cross" was proof of God's merciful guiding hand that day. That's why I hate the families of those who were killed...fucking crybabies, whining over their own petty losses while ignoring the greater triumph of God's true majesty in evidence that day.
Moment of silence my ass! We should celebrate every September 11 with a feast that would make San Genaro burn with envy. _________________
Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 5035 Local time: 10:13 PM Location: Wilmington, DE
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:
I really enjoyed the tsunami Christian church urban legend. Over a quarter of a million people dead. Another million and a half lost their homes. One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. But a couple dozen Christians prayed in a church on a hill and lived. Praise Jesus!
Sick fucks indeed. _________________ "The very existence of flame throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.' - George Carlin
"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
So, I prayed
But you weren't listening.
Making miracles?
So, I begged
But you were far away.
Saving souls perhaps?
So, I screamed
But she was very small
And you have worlds to mend
So, she died
And you were glorious
But you were somewhere else
If you are my shepherd
Then I'm lost and no-one can find me
If you are my saviour
Then I'm dead and no-one can help me
If you are my glory
Then I'm sick and no-one can cure me
If you light my darkness
Then I'm blind and no-one can see me
If you are my father
Then love lies abandoned and bleeding
If you are my comfort
Then nightmares are real and deceiving
If you are my answer
Then I must have asked the wrong question
I'd spit on your heaven
If I could find one to believe in
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