The Incurability Of Religious Cure
By Shyamon Jayasinghe -September 4, 2014
Shyamon Jayasinghe
It was recently reported that Dr Kent Brantly who contracted the killer disease, Ebola, in Liberia, West Africa has been surprisingly cured and says that God cured him by “answering to the thousands who prayed for him.” He is a medical doctor all right. But the hitch is that he is also a Christian evangelist. In a conflict of interest his religion has got in the way of his science. Let me explain.
Ebola is the latest lethal disease hovering the globe. From time to time, we get such new evil visitors coming in to plague man. At one time, it was AIDS. Much earlier in human history it was Small Pox. Many such diseases that swooped on humanity have now been found a cure by scientists. AIDS is still a work-in process. Most cancers are in the same category. The latest malevolent visitor appears so fatal that thousands have already died. Medical people are in a rush to find a vaccine. The vaccine ZMAPP is being tested. And so the process of occurrence, suffering and cure continues.
At each turn, until scientists came out with successful counter moves popular belief looked to supernatural origins and gods and deities were placated. I remember when I was small and attacked by Chicken Pox my elders would say it was an ‘Ammawarunge Lede.’ I cannot exactly translate that but I suppose it was a case of sourcing the disease to an entity outside the natural world. Today, it is common to hear even men and women of modern education attributing what seems a cure for a cancer here and a cancer there as the work of God. God has answered prayers! Australia’s only saint, Mackillop, was supposed to have been a specialist in bringing about miracles to cure disease. Other saints have specialized in other diseases. Just google the index of patron saints and you will find an amazingly long list there. Just a few examples: Saint Agatha looks after breast disease; Saint Dymphia, insanity; Saint George, Syphilis and Saint Benedict, kidney disease. This is a historical list and many of those saints have retired by now as the afflictions have found cures and preventions.Read More
Sri Lankan Muslims Call Upon IS Leader To Stop Killing Innocent Humans
September 4, 2014
The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka (MCSL) has called upon the leader of the terror group Islamic State (IS) – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to put an immediate stop to the massacre of innocent humans in the name of Islam.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
MCSL Vice President Hilmy Ahamed releasing a statement has condemned the continued executions of innocent civilians, journalists and aid workers by the IS of which the most recent victim is American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Describing these executions as ‘cheap and abusive students’ carried out by the brutal terrorists to intimidate the whole world, Ahamed has pointed out that these actions have no place in Islam or in the teaching of Prophet Muhammad.
“Islam forbids torture, harassment and murder of even combatants,” he has written, to further emphasize his arguments.
He has gone on to state that these actions of the IS are crimes that should be condemned by all nations and have called upon the international community including all Islamic countries to act decisively against the IS who have embarked on a killing spree that Islam forbids.
“We also call upon all Muslims around the word to engage in prayers for the victims,” the statement further read.
