The Power of Prayer

Has killed more children than antibiotics
 

Here is a fine example of the power of praying to the Great Sky Fairy.

According to an article from the Associated Press Herbert and Catherine Schaible, good Christian folks from Pennsylvania, USA have now killed two of their children by praying for them instead of relying on medicine.

How could this happen when it clear says in John 14:13-14; Matthew 18:19; Mark 11:24; James 5:14-15; and Luke 11:9-10 that if you pray for something you will get it?  James specifically says that you can cure the sick through prayer.

Well there are a couple of possible answers:

• The Bible also says that prayer doesn't always work--this would be in contradiction to the places where it says that it will work.  If the Bible is the inspired word of God, then God has a tendency toward lying, and tricking his subjects, or he thinks its funny that children die when their parents look for his help when they should know it's not coming.
• The Bible and everything in it are stories created by ignorant men to explain things they don't understand--i.e. fairy tales and myth.

I feel bad for the victims of this stupidity--the two little boys who died a long agonizing death because their ignorant parents trusted a bunch of ancient fairy tales.  The preachers, and other members of their little cult should also be brought to justice for propagating such stupidity.  The sooner ignorant mythological belief systems like this are eradicated the better off all our children will be.

Disagree? Why? Prove it?

Genesis

In the beginning man created a fairytale.  The fairytale grew.  As it grew, the fairytale begat new fairy tales, which begat more fairy tales.

As these fairy tales grew, they begat hatred for their brother and sister fairy tales.  As this hatred grew, so did the fairytales' power.  This rise in power gave the World such wonders as the Inquisitions, Nazi-Germany, all manner of genocides and war, 9-11, and many more wonders too numerous to mention.

Somewhere along the way, amidst the ignorance and pain of Fairytale rule, reason was born.  The followers of the Fairy tales, tried many times in vain to kill reason, and its spawn:  logic, education, and common sense, but reason and its spawn survived, and eventually began to thrive.

Despite the growth of reason Fairy tales still thrive, and are still in charge, as mysticism, ignorance, and laziness are hard to overcome.

Enter:  This Blog

I offer this little corner of the web as a battleground between reason, intellect, and logic and their greatest enemy--the Biblical Fairytale.

This, the most powerful of fairy tales, has seen a deterioration in the number of its followers in recent decades, but still remains as the largest source of death, bigotry, hatred and war on the planet.  Why?

It is a fairytale whose adherents tend to know little about yet refuse to put aside.  Why?

It is a fairytale which is not only contradicted by extraordinary amounts of common sense observation and science, but also by itself.  Yet is still believed to be fact.  Why?

According to the fairytale, its adherents must spread the fairytale.  These people must make the fairy tale's detractors believe by a process of evangelizing.

I give those people a chance to do the work of their great fairy right here.

Make Me Believe.

Here is what I currently believe:

1. The Bible is a fairytale written by ignorant men as a way to explain things to and gain control over other ignorant people.
2. The Bible cannot stand on its own as divinely inspired due to its many inconsistencies and self-contradictions.
3. The Bible's adherents cannot in a rational manner show the Bible to be anything other than what I have stated above.
4. Belief in the Biblical fairy tale is the chief reason for most of the suffering and strife in the World today.

Disagree?  Why?  Prove it.

I won't in any way censor any one's opinions or statements until they reach the inevitable level of personal attacks on myself or other contributors (of either side), or when someone (of either side) begins saying the same thing over and over as this adds nothing, and usually means that the attacker or babbler has reached the limit of his or her intellectual ability to contribute.  I will also accept no anonymous comments--if you don't have the courage to put your name on a statement then it is not worth seeing.

I intend to follow this post with a list of talking points as a starting point for discussion, though you as a reader may feel free to raise any pertinent point for insertion into the discussion.  I will then take the point and give it its own separate forum, and of course give you credit for bringing it to light.  As such, all posts will be ongoing and edited as need be with no topic ever closed for further discussion

So, let's begin---Make Me Believe.