From: duke 

On 27 Mar 2007 14:24:36 -0700, "Rudy Canoza"
 wrote:

>> How do **you** know what they wanted after they lost their limb?

>Come on, duck.  People with cancer pray to have the cancer go away.
>People who have lost limbs pray to have their intact limb back, or to
>grow a new one.

You're kidding............right?

>Why has god *NEVER* given amputees their limbs back, or new limbs,
>duck?

Some have them reattached.

>> >Why is that, duck?  Why does god hate amputees so much
>> >that he never, ever has answered their prayers?
>> How do you know what they prayed for?

>Cut the crap, duck.  You *KNOW* that some amputees have prayed to be
>made whole again.  god has *never* done it.  Why is that, duck?

You didn't say "some".  You said "never".

>Why are trying a cheap evasion of a good question, duck?

You have no idea what they pray for.  I doubt it's for a new limb to grow back.
>> That's the key about "removal" - once it's gone, it's
gone, be it cancer or
a
>> limb.

>Why hasn't god ever made an amputee whole again, duck?  You know many
>have prayed for it.

No, and neither have you.  How many pray for a cancer to grow back after it's gone?

>> >No, duck, they aren't.  They foolishly think they are.
>> Ohhhhhh, "foolishly".  I see.

>Good.  You're making progress.
>Yes, foolishly.  Prayer has never cured anyone of anything.  People
>fool themselves into thinking it has.

And you know this................how?

>> >> Can't you make up your mind?
>> >I did, duck, long ago.  Prayer is bullshit.
>> Ok, it's your funeral.
>Yeah, you've tried that bit of intimidation before, duck.  It doesn't
>work.

It's still your funeral.  I believe in God.  I pray to God.  And my prayers
are always answered.

>You're a coward, duck.  You're scared to death to question the
>bullshit with which you've been indoctrinated.  Why are you frightened
>to question, duck?

Me:  win (hopefully)/no win.  Atheist: lose/no win.  No win comes into play
if there is no almighty God.

>>  He gives them exactly what they need.

>Why has that *NEVER* been a new whole limb for amputees, duck?  Why is
>that many victims of cancer and other "open" diseases have seemed to
>"need", in your crappy formulation, a cure, but NO amputee has ever
>"needed", in god's eyes, to be made whole?

>Duck?  You still there?

Yes, I am.  Are you?

duke, American-American
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer." Pope Paul VI
*****

--- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag