God's will be done!

"God's will be done" is the believer's escape hatch from the question, "Why didn't God answer your prayer?" Believers will tell you that God answers all prayers, but that sometimes the answer is "No." There are many ways to wiggle out of skeptics' questions about religious matters, but I've just heard about a really great website that asks the very difficult question (for believers, anyway), "Why won't God heal amputees?"

Certain diseases have medical cures; sometimes diseases go away by themselves. Believers often attribute the healing of these diseases to God and prayer. When someone has been gravely ill, and, despite great odds, gets well, it's easy to believe a miracle has occurred. But has it? What about conditions that medicine and nature cannot cure, such as a missing limb? As the website points out, there is not a single case on record of miraculously regenerated limbs. I'll leave it to the believers and the author of http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/ to hash over the question of just what God has against the limbless.

I don't know how long the website has been up, or how long the line of argument has been around. Now that I've heard it, it seems so obvious that I imagine that the question is as least as old as the scientific method. Funny thing is, I've been around almost 60 years and have never heard the question asked before!

I haven't yet discovered any one person to credit the website to, just an organization called "God Is Imaginary."

Conservative Bible Project

I would direct your attention to The Conservative Bible Project:

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

You have to hand it to conservative Christians. Through the miracle of redefinition, they can wiggle themselves out of any tight spots they find themselves in. We’re all already familiar with their efforts over the years to rewrite the history of science to confirm their beliefs. Now they have embarked on a truly radical venture: rewriting the New Testament!

Yes, they’ve decided that they don’t like all that stuff about forgiveness and giving to the poor. They are in the mood to smite their enemies, not to love them. As much as they would like to call themselves Christians, and would like ours to be a Christian nation, Christ’s teachings need a little tweaking. What these folks really would like to do is to strip away from Jesus all that makes him Jesus, and roll back morality to its Old Testament condition.

Indeed, it would probably be easier to say, “Oops! New Testament? Big mistake!” But of course, that would leave conservative Christians in a real pickle. They’d all be Jews. Conservative Christians don't want the New Testament, but they still need Jesus. Unbelievers like me have long said that we create God in our own image. But I really wasn't expecting so blatant an example.