What an insult to human intelligence this article is. Those who profess to believe in the million myths of religion are to be pitied.

Virgin births, rising from the dead, heaven and choirs of angels, the fires of hell, etc, all are products of sick minds by those who prey upon human gullibility.

Unscramble your brains. Use your intelligence. You'll be glad you did!

"Many people describe spiritual experience as something that's actually quite natural if you take time daily to quiet the mind and open thought to a sense of peace, beauty, and harmony that is wholly apart from the usual perceptions of the physical senses. It may be precisely within this transcendent sense of harmony and peace that people find their connection to Spirit, and new pathways to healing."

Sounds like a process of systemic noradrenaline suppression which is known to inhibit disease vectors... but I hope never to be lying in an Ebola ward testing a theory of 'peace, beauty and harmony' whilst my organs liquefy over several days.

I am genuinely pleased for Dr. Grantly when he says, "God saved my life..." since he makes it clear that this was “Through the care of the Samaritan’s Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital..."

The alternative to Dr. Gantly's, "But what I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers." would have been his widow coping with God's answer being, "No."

I can't get my mind around the selfishness in that whatever trauma makes humans suffer God gets his own way.

It is not God keeping me alive, it is the scientific pills I take, without the pills it is a one way ticket to the urn.
David G I can never understand why people with so called intellect can believe in fairy tales. When dead, that's it for ever, same as before you came, knew nothing then and will know nothing after, simple to understand, just a bit of rooting tooting inbetween to keep the flock going, then again I could have disappeared down the plug hole like trillions of other sperm and not enjoyed that trip down the pipe with the other rubbish, lucky it was the other pipe and being a good swimmer.
Regards

'runner,

Why do refer to God as "He"

Poirot

I refer to God as He because Jesus taught us to pray Our Father not our Mother. The apostle Paul also refered to believers calling upon Abba Father. Added to that God chose to reveal Himself through a man (Christ Jesus).

also
'So man is allowed to "play God" if you approve...but not if you don't? '

u easily get mixed up with being a vessel for God or a vessel for the devil. I would of thought it is clear who you are working for when killing the most vulnerable.

'Virgin births, rising from the dead, heaven and choirs of angels, the fires of hell, etc, all are products of sick minds by those who prey upon human gullibility.

yes David G and believing that all this order came from chaos and that we evolved from monkeys is a product of sick minds by those who prey upon human gullibility.

Stezza's original comment is pertinent; "On the other hand, I'm pretty sure god is the one responsible for ebola in the first place!"
There can be no doubt and the ineluctable conclusion is.....human beings must be gods in Runner's view. Human intellect can confound the purpose of his god. Unless of course, the entire Ebola episode was masterminded by his god in the minutest detail. But there can be little comfort for our ubiquitous Runner in this scenario.

Brantly can rant about his delusional views. But by doing so he demeans his own inner contribution to his recovery as well as the assistance given him by the blood donor and dozens of health workers and researchers. Nevertheless, his motives and goals are admirable and if he finds incentive and enthusiasm for his work therein then he can worship the FSM for all I care, though his purpose in declaring as he did is both ingenuous and naive and reveals a certain unattractive smugness, traits not uncommon in the religiously afflicted