We Don’t Need Miracles

We Don’t Need Miracles

Being an atheist saved my daughter’s life. When my daughter became ill with a severe case of pneumonia I took her to the hospital where she was treated with modern medicine, by doctors and nurses educated in medical science. Using the latest knowledge from multiple scientific fields, they were able to pull her from the brink of death, back to full health, from a disease that in the past would have been fatal.

If I had been religious, however, like the Beagley’s, the Worthington’s, and the Neumann’s, we would have relied solely on faith to heal her. Instead of watching her progressively get better and know that powerful medications were easing her pain, I would watch day after day as she weakened, and would have to looked into those big brown eyes filled with pain, knowing that I was doing absolutely nothing to help her. She would have been sacrificed, so that I would have maintained my integrity, in a belief of a god that doesn’t exist. These three children each had illnesses which are completely treatable with modern medicine, and yet the religiously motivated hatred of science has caused people to turn their backs on it. And their children are the ones who pay the price. If it weren’t for the belief in God, and the spread of mysticism these children, like mine, would each be alive today. That is the price of faith, and the answer to Pascals Wager. If you as a Christian, and an advocate of faith are wrong, your children die. We don’t need God to heal the sick. We need the full power of the human mind, unmitigated and uncorrupted by deadly superstitions.