God: The cure for Cancer (and migraines, and AIDS, and….)

September 7, 2010 · 16 comments

Healed By God

Seriously, should that be legal to claim??

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

Lisa @bakebikeblog September 7, 2010 at 7:21 am

Are they serious?! What on earth……

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Fiona September 7, 2010 at 7:28 am

I wish I could say no… but I think they are. The whole “power of prayer”/faith healing crap. Interested in the AIDS cure in particular. Maybe they are using ‘heal’ for a purpose?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_healing

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jess September 7, 2010 at 7:54 am

I cannot believe people get away with crap like this

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Fiona September 7, 2010 at 8:08 am

because apparently because it’s a “belief” it’s not meant to be criticised. Or so I’ve been told. Not that I necessarily listen to that advice :p

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tiff September 7, 2010 at 9:43 am

Wow, can they actually say that?
Surely not and how many people would believe that claim, I wonder?

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Fiona September 8, 2010 at 11:12 pm

If you’re targeting depression… you may have an audience. ‘

My (fortunately skeptical/cynical) brain dismisses it, but get low enough. and it might be an option.

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Shelley September 7, 2010 at 2:56 pm

This is a pretty old adversing trick. Put the soft puppy next to the toilet paper to make you think the paper is soft. Put a vague statement about god next to some diseases and you think the statement is related to the diseases. There is no claim being made here (it doesn’t say what or who was healed by anything), it just looks like it at first glance.

Yes I just commented both here and facebook.

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Shelley September 7, 2010 at 2:56 pm

adversing? advertising!

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Fiona September 8, 2010 at 7:06 am

Maybe the Catholic church needs to see these marketing guys

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Shelley September 8, 2010 at 4:07 pm

I wonder what happens when you put a soft puppy next to god?

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Fiona September 8, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella September 7, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Oh. Dear.

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Patricia September 8, 2010 at 12:34 am

I think this falls under the umbrella of God is responsible for all. So if you get better through chemo, it was God’s will etc etc. Kooky.

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Fiona September 8, 2010 at 7:04 am

as one friend said on Flickr:

No. “Faith” healers are dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed to practice “medicine” without a license, which is what they’re doing when they claim they can “heal” your cancer. God may have saved me from my cancer, but He did it with a fine medical staff and the miracle of chemotherapy.

Not that I agree, but I much prefer Jim’s approach to reasoning it out than the idea that with prayer people can be magically healed. “The opportunity for prayer
for you to be healed will
also be available.” is on offer at the event.

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ChristopherTK September 8, 2010 at 11:27 am

Your perspective is off. You are misreading the sign.

Obviously we all die, but those of us with a sickness can rest assured that our early death would be a blessing from the too-good-to-show-himself-god but so in need of our love and worship that he seeks to punish us for ignoring him. Our death is the cure! How sweet!

Proof you don’t need good marketing to sell a garbage product.

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Fiona September 8, 2010 at 6:00 pm

ahh, yes. I must look at it that way. I should be grateful if god decides to let me die and go to his heaven place.

But if there’s a hell I’m going there. No chance otherwise, from what I’ve read :D

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