The problem of Silence (aka Divine Hiddenness): The multiplicity of religions, denominations and sects with mutually exclusive salvific doctrines is strong evidence that it’s all man made.

The priest getting killed by the falling cross isn’t “a sign”, “God’s judgment” or anything like that. It’s the laws of physics, improper installation, material degradation and gravity. What you expect under Naturalism.

70 times around the sun today!

Well that’s cool. Was just asked for a reprint of a paper that I published in 1986!

Let’s have this discussion in a few billion years after the sun has expanded and engulfed the earth. /s

Have to love Pastor Alex’s wit.

Re MAID. I’m so thankful that in Canada, the religious right does not have the political influence that it has in the US.

These MAID debates are a good example to remind us how religion poisons everything.

So Calanda is the best they’ve got for the problem of amputees? Strange that Lourdes has the room with discarded crutches, but no discarded prosthetic limbs.

Well that’s cool. I’m being nominated for induction into my hometown Sports Hall of Fame for powerlifting.

From the religion that is supposedly the reason we have science today. /s

Exposing the intellectual side of Christian belief. /s

Some time back I won a small lottery with 1/100,000 odds! I didn’t pray and I won. This proves that not praying works! /s

Training is going well with the Provincial Bench Press Championships coming up in 10 days. I hope to break my own Provincial Record of 137.5 kg (303 lbs) in my age/weight class. I turn 70 next month!

Atheism/Naturalism frees you from the bondage of superstitious belief in the supernatural and an afterlife. I do not fear death because when I’m dead, I won’t know I’m dead. This life is the only one we have, it is not a dress rehearsal, so I make every day count.

My conditional prayer, revised: make an amputee’s limb regrow under contemporary medical observation (17th-century testimony from Calanda is not scientific-grade medical evidence).

Remember the three toes lady?

It funny how God is really good at answering prayers like “Help me find my lost car keys”, but somehow can’t “regrow an amputee’s limb”.

My conditional prayer: Make an amputee’s limb regrow.

Speaking of Catholic miracles, can anyone tell me where at Lourdes they have the room with discarded prosthetic limbs?