# I Think I Know Why God Doesn't Heal Amputees **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 8, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193 "2012-02-08T15:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![GEEPERS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@GEEPERS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GEEPERS)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/381 "2012-02-10T02:41:14Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > As accurate history, it’s not. Very few events have been corroborated, and many seem suspiciously inflated. As a record of how _some_ ancient people thought, it’s probably not far off. That’s total BS, man. Archaeology has proven time and time again that the events of the Bible are not myth. I’ve never heard of one archaeological find that contradicts the Bible either. Years ago, atheists were boldly claiming that the Hittites of the Bible were myth too until archaelogy made them look like morons. Wow, atheists apparently don’t know it all! lol ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/382 "2012-02-10T02:43:58Z")
> [@GEEPERS](#): > > That’s total BS, man. Archaeology has proven time and time again that the events of the Bible are not myth. I’ve never heard of one archaeological find that contradicts the Bible either. Probably because you carefully avoid reading anything from actual archaeologists. Whether you like it or not, plenty of the Bible has been proven false. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/383 "2012-02-10T02:44:33Z")
> [@GEEPERS](#): > > That’s total BS, man. Archaeology has proven time and time again that the events of the Bible are not myth. False. As has already been pointed out to you, there never was a global flood. Not ever. Thus, the Tanakh is at least part myth. Since the Bible incorporates the Tanakh, that makes the Bible part myth. (Is this your thesis, that you will offer up a poorly defended apologia for anything at all related to Christianity?) > [@GEEPERS](#): > > atheists were boldly claiming that the Hittites of the Bible were myth too until archaelogy made them look like morons. This should be an Onion headline. “Hittites shown to have actually existed, also archeology shows that they were totally a bunch of morons.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/384 "2012-02-10T02:46:35Z")
> [@GEEPERS](#): > > I didn’t change the topic, you guys did. Where this thread started going off the rails: > [@GEEPERS](#): > > The solution being “there is no God” is the harder one though. Then I would have to believe that my friend’s cancer disappeared through natural causes. But science and medicine tells us that cancer multiplies, it doesn’t just disappear overnight. > > On a broader scale, an atheist would have to explain encounters with the supernatural. It’s simply too easy copout to claim that everyone is just hallucinating. Same thing with NDE. > > Even if I ignored all that, I would find it bothersome that current and recent events are playing out exactly the way the Bible prophesied. The Jews were scattered to the wind, they became greatly persecuted in WW2, became a nation again, and somehow this tiny nation is the focal point in current events. Way too concidential. > And I just opened up a big can of worms. lol ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/385 "2012-02-10T02:51:52Z")
GEEPERS, you have given some reasons why God doesn’t heal amputees – sin, and all that there. But here are some reasons that need to be included in the discussion:[ol][_]God doesn’t exist[_]God can, but doesn’t wannaGod has limited powers, and can’t.[/ol]Now of all the possible explanations, which one(s), including your suppositions and these, fits the data the best? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/386 "2012-02-10T02:57:43Z")
> [@GEEPERS](#): > > That’s total BS, man. Archaeology has proven time and time again that the events of the Bible are not myth. I’ve never heard of one archaeological find that contradicts the Bible either. Years ago, atheists were boldly claiming that the Hittites of the Bible were myth too until archaelogy made them look like morons. > Wow, atheists apparently don’t know it all! lol The evidence was not there, now there is, of course the whole truth is that it is not quite what you think > **[Hittites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites)** > > The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in modern-day Turkey in the early 2nd millennium BC. The Hittites formed a series of polities in north-central Anatolia, including the kingdom of Kussara (before 1750 BC), the Kanesh or Nesha Kingdom (c. 1750–1650 BC), and an empire centered on their capital, Hattusa (around 1650 BC). Betwee... > [@](#): > > It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical “Hittites” signified any or all of: 1) the original Hattites of Hatti; 2) their Indo-European conquerors (Nesili), who retained the name “Hatti” for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the “Hittites” (the subject of this article); or 3) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite (Luwian) polities.[11] As for archeological finds, the evidence is not kind with many of the tales of the bible. [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/archeology-hebrew-bible.html](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/archeology-hebrew-bible.html) > [@](#): > > NOVA: Have biblical archeologists traditionally tried to find evidence that events in the Bible really happened? > > William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical archeology, perhaps 150 years ago, scholars, mostly western scholars, have attempted to use archeological data to prove the Bible. And for a long time it was thought to work. [William Foxwell] Albright, the great father of our discipline, often spoke of the “archeological revolution.” Well, the revolution has come but not in the way that Albright thought. The truth of the matter today is that archeology raises more questions about the historicity of the Hebrew Bible and even the New Testament than it provides answers, and that’s very disturbing to some people. > [@](#): > > The Bible chronology puts Moses much later in time, around 1450 B.C.E. Is there archeological evidence for Moses and the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Israelites described in the Bible? > > We have no direct archeological evidence. “Moses” is an Egyptian name. Some of the other names in the narratives are Egyptian, and there are genuine Egyptian elements. But no one has found a text or an artifact in Egypt itself or even in the Sinai that has any direct connection. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. But I think it does mean what happened was rather more modest. And the biblical writers have enlarged the story. [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/quest-solomons-mines.html](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/quest-solomons-mines.html) > [@](#): > > Countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon’s mines, trekking through burning deserts and scaling the forbidding mountains of Africa and the Levant, inspired by the Bible’s account of splendid temples and palaces adorned in glittering gold and copper. Yet to date, the evidence that has claimed to support the existence of Solomon and other early kings in the Bible has been highly controversial. In fact, so little physical evidence of the kings who ruled Israel and Edom has been found that many contend that they are no more real than King Arthur. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/387 "2012-02-10T03:14:34Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Miracles are for the believer, not the non-believer. That is what Jesus meant when He said you people demand a sign (miracle) none will be given (you are non-believers so you can’t perceive them so don’t expect them), but only the sign of Jonah, in other words become a believer then you can see them or you will die because you don’t believe you can live. > > With a God in total control of space and time, matter and energy etc. it is well within His ability to have evidence excluded from the non-believers world. And it is exactly because the non-believer is a non-believer that God allows this. The non-believer lives in the world he/she believes exists which includes no miracles. All the technology and cameras in the world can never outdo God preserving your right to live in a reality without any evidence of Him:) So your theory is that god maintains two (or more) realities coexisting at once within the same space and time, correcting any glitches between them on the fly, just so he can hide miracles from the people who don’t already believe in miracles ? Doesn’t that sound like a lot of unnecessary effort to you ? Not to mention that the big guy never seemed all that coy about stopping the Sun to freak out unbelievers, for example. Or did he part the seas for Moses, but to the Egyptians it looked like the Israelites were just taking a bath ; and if so, if Pharaoh did not see the sea parting, why would he have sent his chariots into the sea ? Did the people of Sodom & Gomorrah who didn’t believe never get rained brimstone on, the people who didn’t believe not get washed away by the Flood ? … Cause I gotta tell you, in that case not believing seems a whole lot safer 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/388 "2012-02-10T03:23:31Z")
Dear Mr. (or Ms) Geepers: Please consider this my order for a metric tonne of whatever you were smoking when you wrote that OP. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/389 "2012-02-10T03:41:30Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Miracles are for the believer, not the non-believer. Funny thing, I know miracles are possible, and it is not only non-beliebers that know that, agnostics like me also go for the second definition in the dictionary: “A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.” there is no need for signs, the evidence is already there that miracles do happen. It is just that they do not come or depend on what you think they do. Knowing that miracles are unlikely anyhow, I rather look at science applied to medicine to make the impossible possible: [http://news.discovery.com/human/limb-regrowth-now-possible-in-some-mammals-110413.html](http://news.discovery.com/human/limb-regrowth-now-possible-in-some-mammals-110413.html) > [@](#): > > The day when mammals and perhaps humans could regrow limbs is soon approaching as scientists near a breakthrough. > > The first phases of limb regeneration observed in some amphibians, echinoderms and many plants has been replicated in mice for the first time, according to new research featured in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. > > The project represents the first time scientists have replicated these beginning stages of limb regeneration in mammals. > > Essentially, the process is somewhat similar to stem cell differentiation. Rather than unspecialized cells turning into specialized cells such as heart and skin cells, there’s another step. > > In a process called “dedifferentiation,” specialized cells such as those found in bone muscle turn into unspecialized cells and then change again into another type of specialized cell different than what they started as. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/390 "2012-02-10T08:01:54Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > With a God in total control of space and time, matter and energy etc. it is well within His ability to have evidence excluded from the non-believers world. And it is exactly because the non-believer is a non-believer that God allows this. The non-believer lives in the world he/she believes exists which includes no miracles. All the technology and cameras in the world can never outdo God preserving your right to live in a reality without any evidence of Him 1. You’re really saying that believers inhabit a different version of reality from non-believers? 2. I’m certain that if I visit any church and ask if this is true, the vast majority of Christian believers will say it’s not - and that we all inhabit the same world - why is that? Are they all just wrong? Are they not proper believers? 3. Did you believe this before ever watching Harry Potter? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/391 "2012-02-10T09:14:27Z")
> [@GEEPERS](#): > > The atheist approach to the Bible is grossly unfair. They don’t even consider the cultural behavior of the time. Who is preaching moral relativism now? If, as you’ve been arguing, morality comes from God, an evil act is evil regardless of the culture of the time. Your arguments are internally inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/392 "2012-02-10T10:12:55Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > With a God in total control of space and time, matter and energy etc. it is well within His ability to have evidence excluded from the non-believers world. And it is exactly because the non-believer is a non-believer that God allows this. The non-believer lives in the world he/she believes exists which includes no miracles. All the technology and cameras in the world can never outdo God preserving your right to live in a reality without any evidence of Him But what about all the numerous believers who want to show off their miraculous healing to non-believers? If you go looking, you can find tons of people who claim god healed them and will gladly show pictures of before and after to prove it. That doesn’t jibe with the memory-wipe theory you’re proposing. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/393 "2012-02-10T10:20:06Z")
Also, why would he? Are we talking about YHWH, or Loki? ---
**Author:** ![dorsk188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@dorsk188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorsk188)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/394 "2012-02-10T10:43:19Z")
> [@GEEPERS](#): > > Yet atheists claim the Bible is just a book of myths. You can’t have it both ways. Personally, I don’t believe a word of the Bible until it is supported by external evidence like archaeology or contemporaneous documents. But even if it was 100% fictitious, there is still a moral dimension to how people talk about it. Hannibal Lector is a fictional character, but I would be disgusted by anyone who defended his behavior. It’s not just about whether things actually happened, it’s about how your view of the story reflects on your sense of morality. > [@GEEPERS](#): > > You obviously have demonstrated that you won’t take any of my responses serious so why should I bother with you anymore? People are supposed to take you seriously when you say things like this: > [@GEEPERS](#): > > They were human garbage. A tribe of people practiced child sacrifice of _some_ of their children (which I don’t condone one iota), so it’s morally justified to kill _ALL_ of their children. Anyone who would refer to any ethnicity as “human garbage” is morally compromised. You go on by endorsing preemptive murder in the form of genocide. > [@GEEPERS](#): > > How do you know that all Midianites were not wicked? How do you know that those innocent children would not have grown up to murder and kill God’s chosen people? I take back any positive comment I may have made about you in this thread. It’s taking every ounce of my being to keep from flagrantly breaking the rules of this forum again. I respect the spirit of this forum as a place to exchange ideas, not invective, so I do not intend to respond to you again. I recognize it my own shortcoming that I cannot engage with you without becoming emotional, but I also think it’s a waste of effort to try to convince you of your folly. I hope in time you come to recognize the inherent value of human life and the source of true morality. GEEPERS, if you wish to engage me directly, send a private message rather than do so here. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/395 "2012-02-10T13:16:04Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > So your theory is that god maintains two (or more) realities coexisting at once within the same space and time, correcting any glitches between them on the fly, just so he can hide miracles from the people who don’t already believe in miracles ? Doesn’t that sound like a lot of unnecessary effort to you ? To me, no not at all; we are talking about God almighty here after all who watches after every entity and nothing is difficult for. To me we are all God’s children. God is not raising human children, but raising child gods (us). As child gods we are being taught to be gods. Part of that is the ability to create the reality we inhabit. A philosophical question, can a all mighty God forget He is a God. We are the answer to that question. So what happens if God makes Himself mortal, He should have that power if He is almighty, again we are the answer to that question. If we believe in the physical world only that is the reality we create for ourselves. It is using our god power in exactly that way. Also I know that I’m switching between Almighty God and us, but the reason is they are the same and is the meaning of the Hebrew saying ‘God is One’ in the Shema (prayer). > [@](#): > > Not to mention that the big guy never seemed all that coy about stopping the Sun to freak out unbelievers, for example. Or did he part the seas for Moses, but to the Egyptians it looked like the Israelites were just taking a bath ; and if so, if Pharaoh did not see the sea parting, why would he have sent his chariots into the sea ? Did the people of Sodom & Gomorrah who didn’t believe never get rained brimstone on, the people who didn’t believe not get washed away by the Flood ? > … Cause I gotta tell you, in that case not believing seems a whole lot safer 😛 Who knows what the Egyptians saw, but we have some idea from what the world came up with, like not the Read Sea, but the swampland called the Sea of Reads, which with a strong wind in a certain direction drains to dry land. God is indeed merciful and to the egyptians they could have just got their chariots stuck in the mud and decided to turn back rather then risk losing the equipment. But in God’s eyes the Egyptians fell that day to a ‘lower’ level of reality and could no longer touch the Israelites. They were effectively defeated. While Lot’s wife did save many of Sodom, Yes I believe the rest just fell into a lower level of reality. On a soul level they got burned up to ashes, but on their level life went on as expected and most likely fell onto very hard times such as our great depression or worse. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/396 "2012-02-10T13:17:08Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > But what about all the numerous believers who want to show off their miraculous healing to non-believers? If you go looking, you can find tons of people who claim god healed them and will gladly show pictures of before and after to prove it. That doesn’t jibe with the memory-wipe theory you’re proposing. Then why have I baan asked to show evidence? you obviously have the evidence so show it then and prove me wrong 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/397 "2012-02-10T13:22:34Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Funny thing, I know miracles are possible, and it is not only non-beliebers that know that, agnostics like me also go for the second definition in the dictionary: “A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.” there is no need for signs, the evidence is already there that miracles do happen. It is just that they do not come or depend on what you think they do. > > Knowing that miracles are unlikely anyhow, I rather look at science applied to medicine to make the impossible possible: My take on it is 1: Ask for help & guidance 2: Procede as you would normally in this world (including medical help) unless the guidance seems valid. I have heard of those who knew they were going to be healed of conditions, so they put off treatment for years, they when it was overly bad they went for the treatment and got a miracle cure beyond what the treatment would accomplish and the message that they were always suppose to continue normally in this world’s treatment to receive the healing. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/398 "2012-02-10T13:27:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 1. You’re really saying that believers inhabit a different version of reality from non-believers? > 2. I’m certain that if I visit any church and ask if this is true, the vast majority of Christian believers will say it’s not - and that we all inhabit the same world - why is that? Are they all just wrong? Are they not proper believers? > 3. Did you believe this before ever watching Harry Potter? It’s in scriptures that some people see things that others do not, it doesn’t matter what the ‘vast majority’ of Christians (or for that matter Hindus, Islamics or even democrats) say. I believe it is also the reason for the apparent contradictions in scriptures. It is God showing us that there is various realities. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/399 "2012-02-10T13:34:03Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s in scriptures that some people see things that others do not, it doesn’t matter what the ‘vast majority’ of Christians (or for that matter Hindus, Islamics or even democrats) say. > > I believe it is also the reason for the apparent contradictions in scriptures. It is God showing us that there is various realities. So what ever anyone believes, that is reality. Atheist reality, Christian reality, Hindu reality, Muslim reality, Republican reality, Democrat reality. Everybody gets their own reality. Congratulations. You have rendered the word ‘reality’ meaningless. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193/400 "2012-02-10T13:40:26Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > It’s in scriptures that some people see things that others do not, it doesn’t matter what the ‘vast majority’ of Christians (or for that matter Hindus, Islamics or even democrats) say. But it matters what \*you \*say. Why? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-know-why-god-doesnt-heal-amputees/612193.md?page=21)