Lourdes

[jeremyp]

Some questions that have popped into my head, prompted by the tragic Becky Laird thread.

Why is it that a god that is effectively omnipotent finds it easier to cure people who go to Lourdes than not? Isn't that a bit unfair on people that can't travel because they are too sick? If God wanted to heal you, why would he set such onerous conditions?

At Lourdes, they have displays of crutches hanging on the rock face. Why do they have no artificial limbs?

Incidentally, when my family visited Lourdes when I was a teenager (as tourists) my parents were amused to find that in an avenue adorned with statues of saints, St Rémy was next to St Martin. Who says Catholics don't have a sense of humour?

[Shaker]

Some questions that have popped into my head, prompted by the tragic Becky Laird thread.

I have plenty more.

But no doubt it would be considered in poor taste to pose them at the moment. OK.

And in any case, they'll either be roundly ignored (first recourse) or met with the same shopworn fallacies we've all seen a squillion times before.

So no point in asking, really.

[jeremyp]

But no doubt it would be considered in poor taste to pose them at the moment. OK.

Why?

[Shaker]

Why?

Some questions that have popped into my head, prompted by the tragic Becky Laird thread.

A wife, mother, relative and friend has just died.

I'm not as critical as you of the ongoing aforementioned thread; I'm far more so. If I said what I actually think of the belief system enshrined therein my tenure on this forum would be brought to a swift conclusion.

So no, not right now and in such specific circumstances.

[jeremyp]

That was just quoting my first line not answering my question. Why is it in poor taste to discuss Lourdes now?

[Shaker]

That was just quoting my first line not answering my question. Why is it in poor taste to discuss Lourdes now?

Lourdes is fine. They've been hawking their tat and miraculous claims around the block for donkey's years. Have at it.

The tying-in with the now-deceased Becky Laird, though very far from without point (quite the antithesis, as W. C. Fields used to say), is what's in poor taste. A thread on Lourdes could have been started at absolutely any point in the past, and for all I know has been. Why today? Why now?