#1 - Why won't God heal amputees?

This is the first of a 10 part series answering the 10 famous question posed by an angry atheist.

"The Placebo Effect" from The Skeptic's Dictionary...

"The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health or behavior not attributable to a medication or treatment that has been administered."

From MedicineNet

"A remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo -- a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution -- can sometimes improve a patient's condition simply because the person has the expectation that it will be helpful."

http://skepdic.com/placebo.html
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31481

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[GUALLACOL]

To Joelthecalvanist: Here we go again, you don't like the questions because it has flaws! Maybe its because you don't know and hate to admit it!!!

[JoelTheCalvinist]

@GUALLACOL Of course I don't know. I did my best to answer it though.

[GUALLACOL]

@JoelTheCalvinist Maybe you should take a break in reading the bible and start reading "Chariots of the Gods" by Von Daniken or "The Lost Book of Enki" by Zecharia Sitchin. This is another perspective to think critically out of the box. Archeologists are digging out new things (evidence) of where we come from.

[JoelTheCalvinist]

@GUALLACOL They've been doing that for a long time...

[SkullVodka]

Why is it that every atheist is "angry"? Some are, sure, but christians claim that all atheists are angry. This simply is not true. I guess it's not the only thing that christians claim, that is totally incorrect.

[bnbalenda]

God does not heal amputees because he is either spiteful or he does not exist. Faith does not heal because you don't have any evidence to support your claims.

[ozmoroid]

So why don't any Christian amputees have enough faith in the power of God? Why don't Christians start off with someone who had the tip of his/her little finger amputated and then work their way up to full limbs?

[WorldMilitia]

God kills more than satan. Just look at the OT. I can see this guy struggling to come up with an excuse

[WorldMilitia]

@jchunt125 spam

[StarPathOne]

This guy has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. His assumptions that a placebo actually 'cures' and that atheists have no moral code, etc. prove he's not educated on what a placebo actually does (ie. nothing), or understands atheism.

Just because you 'believe' or have faith in something doesn't make things happen. Only 'work' (ie in the scientific sense) can obtain results. Prayer is no more work than snoring.

Two hands working will always provide more than 10,000 clasped in prayer.

[coolst0rybro]

If there is no lord, why should we care if people have lost limbs? In a world without the lord amputations wouldn’t be “good” or “bad”. They would simply be, a fact of life no different from a tree shedding leaves in the fall.

[WakkaOwnages]

This guy is a fuking idiot geez