Pray for a Cure

It's been far too long since I've posted an entry. Sorry fans, me life is quite busy. I've been working on a new book, finished a short vacation, and been battling an encroaching apathy. Uh, it's brutal.


Anyway, recently I saw an ad and it got me thinking. The ad said, "Pray for a cure." This was in regard to cancer. Now I found this to be an ironic and humorous ad. Christians deride science for its objectivity and unwillingness to put substance behind anything that cannot be verifiably proven or postulated. Science is evil for stating man came from the primordial ooze and evolved from the single cell to the perverted, multicellular deviants we are today. Science is horrific for cutting open bodies to discover how they work in order to repair them and improve them. Science is monstrous when it dares to investigate existence (whether through physics, genetics, etc.) because that alone is "God's domain." Yet every Christian I know goes to see a doctor. Now if God were all powerful, shouldn't Christians be going to see priests, reverends, preachers, shamans, etc. to heal them? I find it fascinating that when it comes to the spiritual, people are more than willing to support the theory of God but when the physical comes into play, people turn the other direction.


So I saw this ad begging all to pray for a cure. Are we supposed to assume that God has not deigned us worthy of discovering the cure for cancer? Doesn't that make him a bit sadistic? He is the source of all things, so he created the cancer. Does this mean God gave us cancer and doesn;t want us to live? Is God deliberately trying to kill us all?!?! The idea that we have to pray and pray and pray for him to care is not only tedious but odious. It implies we are supposed to feel dirty and worthless and thus deserving of our suffering. If we were worthy, God would give us the tools to heal ourselves. Bollocks. Bollocks I say!


Now I'm going on a brief tangent here. Bear with me. Why is it when things go well, God gets the praise and yet when things go bad, humanity takes the slack? This is the equivalent of a worker having their supervisor take credit for their hard work but then being blamed when the office fails at a task. Does that sound fair? Doesn't the individual, rather than the supervisor, deserve a little recognition for their work.


Sure, God created us, but its was humanity that created the arts, sciences, sports, and more. I don't remember reading where God taught us to read and write, basic math, or anything else. He "supposedly" created life (shoddily I might add) and abandoned us after we made one simple mistake. For a being that believes in forgiveness, I find his expulsion of man from his presence for wanting to learn (Tree of Wisdom) to be rather underhanded. When I read Genesis, I get the feeling that God doesn't want us to progress. He wants us to remain immature, unthinking, and beneath his thumb. He wants us to need him. The very act of trying to attain independence is anathema to the guy. He wants us to need him because, otherwise, he has no purpose to be. He's a Jewish mother!


So seeing that ad about praying for a cure is just so ironic. It's not the hard work of scientists that will lead to a cure. It has to come from on high. If the scientists find a cure, God inspired them. Until then, we don't have a cure because we simple aren't worthy. God must guide science. For a guy who created the whole of existence, this seems rather blah. Why not have his subordinates (priests, apostles, etc.) go around and heal everyone. The Church could use some good karma afterall and increase support for ecclesiastical authority. It would also make up for the 20th century (where the hell were you for that, God?!?!).


The whole reason for medicine is the fact that God never really seems to help us in our times of need (sickness, injury) no matter how hard we pray. Medicine is man's way of helping himself, so begging God to help make us more independent of him (strengthening of medicine so we do not require a laying on of hands) is simply against God's agenda. There is a reason God, if he does exist, doesn't reveal his secrets. He doesn't want us to outgrow him. The guy seriously has issues if you ask me.