wenglund wrote:I won't aggitate the religious mockers here by describing what religious practices I have employed on behalf of your daughter, but please known that my heart is with her and you and your family as well as all those looking after her welfare. I sincerely wish all the best.
Thanks, -Wade Englund-
Like everyone here, I hope that Runtu's daughter stages a full and quick recovery.
Mockery aside, I think that an honest discussion of the effectiveness of fasting and praying is appropriate. It is too bad that it has to occur in the midst of Runtu's daughter's misfortune. If fasting or praying were truly effective, then I would imagine that only atheists (or those who pray to the wrong God) would be the ones getting sick, dying, or suffering misfortunes.
What kind of person would God be if, on the one hand, he's perfectly willing to let someone suffer and die withou intervening, but on the other hand, decides to intervene only because some perfect stranger decided to skip a few meals?
I know that if my child is sick or suffering, I don't callously sit by and do nothing until somebody decides to go hungry for a few hours.
The entire premise underlying fasting strikes me as quite odd, and it does not portray a flattering image of a supposed loving and all powerful father figure.
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."