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On the other end of the spectrum, another different show on the same channel had a woman who's husband, who was a baptist preacher, died of Lou Gehrig's disease despite her vigilant prayers, her son's prayers, her churches prayers, etc. She then stated that her husband dying strengthened her faith in Christ? Why would it? Is this just another case of religion simply soothing greif?
Despite either outcome of the husband dying or not, the wife would have said her faith was strengthened. What always strikes me as funny is that faith requires no evidence, so how can evidence strengthen it? If any conditions can lead to strengthening of faith, how can one's faith ever be weak?
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I wonder what would happen if you brought a guy with Lou Gehrigs disease (Always fatal) to a faith healer, and what would they do? Further what would they say when he died anyway? How can faith healers "get away" with what they are doing?
I have heard faith healers say things to the effect of "well his faith wasn't strong enough" when the sick die. It is a really convenient out for them. They get away with it because people have a deep need to believe in something greater than themselves. Those who believe in faith healers delude themselves to accept whatever the outcome of the healing as proof of God.
The thing is, in most cases these faith healers are harmless. They do their little song and dance with people who have ailments that modern medicine has failed to treat. If it makes a people dying of cancer feel a little better to have the hope that a faith healer brings, more power to them.
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