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Originally Posted by Pokerlogist
The simple closed chest compression procedure that is now used to resuscitate dying people was discovered in 1891 by Dr. Friedrich Maass who happened to try it out on a few patients. Still it was not understood nor widely adopted until decades later. That discovery would be considered the miracle. Whose to say it was not gifted to us from a higher power?
That still does not address the question of why it was necessary to use it on an otherwise healthy person like Damar Hamlin. We credit the great, wonderful and powerful almighty deity with providing miracles like allowing us to restart his heart, but we give that same deity a free pass regarding causing Damar Hamlin to be in that position in the first place. We say it was a freak accident or who knows why his heart stopped. Sounds an awful lot like the type of unexplained phenomena that believers are all too eager to credit God for when it is a positive event. Why should God not get the blame when itÂ’s a negative one?
This purported God is all loving and all powerful, but somehow he seems to let an awful lot of bad crap happen to people who do not seem to deserve having bad crap happen to them. Believers explain this away by saying God does not interfere with free will, but this only explains bad crap perpetrated evil humans against their fellow human, not things like natural disasters, diseases, etc. It’s all part of his plan; that is another load of crap I hear. Ok, how is it part of God’s plan to have a baby born with a congenital condition that only allows him to live for a few days, during which time he is suffering and struggling to breathe? How is childbb him old cancer causing kids to die before they reach high school “part of the plan”? What kind of sick plan is it that calls for that kind of suffering? We praise God when a kid with cancer goes into remission, but why could God not have prevented that cancer in the first place?
While IÂ’m ranting, the whole free will argument is crap too. Why should an evil doerÂ’s free will trump the right of the innocent victim to not suffer? Even if God cannot (contradicting omnipotence) or will not interfere with free will, he still could prevent the evil anyway. Why canÂ’t a person who molested a child be struck by lightning before he has a chance to do so? God is omniscient and omnipotent, so while WWi was occurring He would have known what evil awaited humanity just a few decades after the war. Why could God not have caused an artillery shell to explode near and kill a certain corporal in the Austrian army, or even have said corporal contract the Spanish Influenza that was pandemic in the aftermath of the war and die from it?
So no, I will not give God credit for saving someone from a situation that God himself caused. If you care to believe in such a deity and that makes you feel good, then fine. It makes me feel far better to think that all these things that happen are just random crap that we cannot really do anything about, and that there really is no supreme deity out there causing all of our suffering.