Man dies after sitting in recliner for eight months I guess Jesus was too busy putting his likeness in grilled cheese sandwiches.
fail. Sitting in a recliner for 8 months will kill you. See above link. The lord also says not to be slothfull. Double wammy for this guy.
AW: Re: Religion claims another life Can you die from a torn ACL? No. The man died from sitting in a recliner for 8 months.
i see where this is going, boyo. let's nip it in the bud right here, right now. if he can't come up with $300, tough. finances and lack thereof are one of the mysterious ways in which God reveals to us who is and who is not in His grace. it is finished.
Death is the proper punishment for a man so devoted to sloth and inactivity. He takes from the glorious society's resources and provides nothing but flatulence! Oh, so your knee hurts? The cure is in the Reichsarbeitsdienst! We have shovels sitting idle and the Fatherland needs ditches!
The excellent part of this thread is that it reveals again the animus that certain posters have concerning a brand of spirituality. I have no idea what sort of pain the guy was in, but lying in a recliner for the better part of a year bears no relationship to "religion". I doubt that there is a religion that would recommend that you lie in a recliner for 8 months. Having faith that God will heal you is an important feature of many kinds of spiritual devotion. Obviously God doesn't heal everyone because, last time I checked, people die, regardless of their faith. Physical death is a virtual certainty. As a group, Christians know that. Believing that God may heal me may result in a longer lifespan. If it doesn't, I haven't lost much, unless I have a treatable ailment which I ignore. The overwhelming percentage of people who believe that God heals people also believe that God is the source of the whole of medical science. They believe that God created everything that is good, and medical science is part of that good.
Yeah, because there are NO cases of people allowing their loved ones to suffer because they believe Jesus will save them instead of science. None whatsoever.
Maybe not what you want religion to be but if you tell enough idiots that asking God to make them better actually works, you're always going to end with stories like this. They pop up regulalry. So, aye, it kind of does. Any intelligent christian would go to a doctor becasue, you know, the praying thing doesn't actually work.
about 12 years ago, a woman who went to Cambodia as a missionary, with her husband, both of whom were supported in part by the church i attend had a brain scan. there was a "black hole" in the scan. the medical people who interpreted the scan said that it looked like a cavity in her brain. they didn't understand how it might have occurred, but what they did note is that she was dying. they had no treatment plan. the woman and her husband had returned from Cambodia to the US because they hoped to find out why she was so sick. while she was in the hospital, several people went to visit, to anoint her with oil ( in accordance with biblical teaching ), and to pray for her. very soon after she reported feeling better. a subsequent brain scan showed no anomaly. the medical persons who were handling her treatment have no explanation. they are, however, unanimous in their assessment that the first scan was not flawed, that the "black hole" was not the result of a system error. beyond that they have little to say. she's still healthy. no, i haven't seen the pictures. but i've spoken with two people who have.
the ratio of people who have been helped because Christians built hospitals and people who have suffered because some doofus told them that they shouldn't see a doctor may be 2.38 million to one.
Cute anecdote. Not evidence of anything. But a cute anecdote. Glad she's still healthy. I hope they submitted her case to a scientific review panel to find out what really happened.