Medicine of the All Mighty 11.08.2011

I recently noticed the above image in a facebook post. It says "The word of god is the medicine.!!". Hmm, really? I'm no betting man but I'm 98% sure that anyone who liked and shared that image takes actual medicine when they are sick.

Nobody who claims that their god is their medicine actually trusts on this medicine. Odd? Yes. No, don't thank the doctors and medical researchers for coming up with cures, thank God!

"But God touched every doctor out there to make the discovery they did!" really? That's a rather shortsighted statement.

Here's why:

On the surface, I guess, a statement like this seems believable. Especially to someone who believes in god. But this statment has so many implications. Things they have never thought of.

This statement actually means that God didn't bother to reveal or inspire any medical discovery for centuries, right upto the ages where human technological advances were sophisticated enough to discover things on their own. This means that this "loving" god had people suffer(!) and die for centuries, before he felt compelled to share his secrets about the human body with us. (And not through divine revelation, but through the "actions of others") This means that you dismiss and discredit countless of people eagerly striving to make a direct difference in this world by healing people.

Think about this the next time you say a prayer for healing. Think about this the next time you are on a table being operated on. The hands actually saving you, healing you, are those of highly trained medical professionals, not the hands of God.

Hands guided by passion, years of study, practice and hard work, not the hands guided by God.

Isn't it strange God has failed to guide any human hand to do life saving surgery until finally we figured out how to do it ourselves? (Through mostly painful sessions of trial and error?)

Come to think of it, when you defend and praise God like this, God reminds me of "that guy" everybody knew in highschool. When asked a direct question he would be like "Uhm.. it's uhm. No, wait, I've got it. Is it.." Then as soon as the actual answer is given he says "Yes! No, yeah, of course, but I knew that! Ha, I was just janking you chain to see if you knew it too! But no, yeah, I knew.".

Can anybody please explain this to me?