Why Won’t God Heal Amputees has some great information and video that will tell you why god is imaginary. It’s pretty fun and there are good points.
In spite of all of this information, I was told today on the Minnesota Atheists forum that god actually does heal amputees, and thus I have offered up a challenge to that person and anyone else who agrees with him or her to take part in my Great Amputee Experiment.
If you are a christian, and would like to prove that god does in fact heal amputees, sign up here, and I’ll help you out with that. I will admit, I don’t have any practice cutting limbs off of people, but I’m sure I could figure something out to assist. Then I’ll pour you a cup of coffee, we’ll sit together, and just wait for them to grow back in, no worries.
This guy must not be praying very hard!!!
Love the caption!
LoL!
If the amputation is performed at the neck, which part grows back, the head or the body? Good gawd, what if both grew back! Then we’d have two crazy fundies! Better not try this…
Lol, well, I’m not going to chop them at the neck, then they won’t be able to think. Oh, oops… Elephant in the room!!!
Hi,
I am a strong Christian and find this fascinateing. Sunny, i understand your views, and hope you will take this seriously. I will volenteer my limbs for this “experiment”. Any and all it requires. I understand the severity of these actions.
I do not know any other way to directly contact you, since I can not find an email, so I have commented in other sections aswell.
Hope to hear from you soon
Because God is likely out of practice, what with a distinct dearth of honest miracles in recent years, I would suggest something small that the almighty _should_ have an easy time restoring, even in his current anemic state.
No, not _that_. Bible says if you have a defect there, God wants nothing to do with you. Seems the deity likes his men well hung.
Might I suggest a pinky-finger, maybe at the first or second joint? Minimal risk, easy to heal should Yahweh take an interest after his long nap, and highly visible.
“So what happened there?”
“Cut it off to see if God would grow it back. Prove something to those damned heathens.”
“Oh…..did it work?”*
*remember the cranial capacity of some of the individuals we’re dealing with here.
I love it. Great idea.
Now wait just one holey minute, the christian had a self described miracle just this week when a christian god-idea stuffed some innocent birdies into a jet engine. It was a truthy christian miracle as birdies don’t like being in jet engines. However, there has been no explanation from the christian as to why its god-idea would so selfishly risk so many human lives and kill the birdies. The christian god-idea is very lucky that the pilot was able to bring the plane down safely. Additional murder charges would not help the christian god-idea’s case.
It doesn’t logically follow that if there is a first cause for the universe, even if it is like a “being”and not just some field etc., that it would also be able to do things like cure amputations. (IOW, our universe being contingent on some “creator” or other, wouldn’t prove it had to be “omnipotent” and able to make anything happen. What if generating universes is all it can do? See Paul Davies The Mind of God.)
I always get cracked up when people make fun of the fact that religious people believe in a supreme being, but assume that all of religious believers’ notions about that supreme being would have to be true in the event of His/Her/Its existence. Suppose it’s the other way around: they are right that It (as I would say) exists but wrong about what it is like and can do?
To be honest, if they did actually regrow amputated limbs, I would still be a little skeptical. They would have to prove that they didn’t have an innate ability to regenerate severed body parts beforehand for it to count as a miracle. I mean, for all we know, they could be half-lizard, or they could be Wolverine. Or they might have multiple limbs, and hide the second set just so that they change which set they have hanging out of their shirt sleeves when you’re not watching. Too many angles. I’m on to you, Christians!
I’d be skeptical as well, but that’s why I offer that we can do it at my house over coffee… Then I can watch the magic unfold.
And to those who have said I’m just ‘tempting god’. I’m not tempting anything! I’m just saying that if someone says that it happens, get ready to prove it to me. I’m not saying god has to do it, that would be where your risk comes in with your own limbs. I KNOW god doesn’t cure amputees because I know there is no god, that’s why I’m not offering up my own arms or legs… I just want the rest who have said it’s true to admit it.
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“Suppose it’s the other way around: they are right that It (as I would say) exists but wrong about what it is like and can do?”
Then I guess it doesn’t matter, because it is only “God” by an almost meaningless definition of the word. Proving individual points of a single conception of God to be inconsistent with reality is a nice way to wittle down what definitions you could hold and still not contradict what we know to be true. And it gets to the point where it resembles Deism: where there might be a “god” somewhere, with some basic properties, maybe, and is about as likely to exist as any other random supernatural agency given a similar allotment of traits. So, yes, a god could exist even if not in super-fantastical-lovable-miracle-granter form. But, getting some people to admit that much is the first step along the much longer path to the irrelevance of deity.
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Ha! That’s the same image I use on my thesecrethatesamputees.com site. This is a great idea! We should all save up some money and offer a reward to anyone that can prove that God has grown back a limb. I’ll offer $1000.00
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– Reggie
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Well I think we are going to start doing it like they did in the Bronze Age: Spit on it and it’ll be cured! That’s how the miracle healing worked right?
Great! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my site?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Sincerely, Your Reader
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Deut 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
I’ve never been to Massah, so it totally wasn’t me!
I’ve seen the word “test” or “put to the test” used instead of “tempt” for that same passage. An entertaining idea to say the least.
“I’m all powerful, all loving, all knowing, and you all know deep down that I exist. So, I’m just gonna go over here for a while, where you can’t see me, or really verify my existence in any way, shape, or form. And don’t you DARE try to find out whether any of these things are true, or there will be things in store for you. Unspeakable things. Oooogggaaa boooggaa booggaa.”
Thus is the word of the Lord. Or the Wizard of Oz. I really am not familiar enough with the canon involved with either to be certain.