Which group of people have healed more people from serious medical conditions - religious leaders or doctors?

Based on your answer, in which direction should the majority of human efforts be directed - to religion or towards medical research?

Which group of people have healed more people from serious medical conditions - religious leaders or doctors?
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Reply:Both? Evil are u crazy? We had religion in the West for 2,000 YEARS!!!! And during almost the entire time, the lifespan was in the 40's. In the past hundred years, we have increased to the mid 70's. That's almost double the life span!!! That is ENTIRELY from modern medicine! And you say both are equally important?





Remind me never to hire you to work in my company, you seem to have no ability to reason whatsoever.
Reply:that's a slanted question





how many Janitors have saved lives versus Doctors?





clearly with your logic we need to cut down on Janitors and more Doctors





There is a place for both in society
Reply:Doctors.





Medical research.
Reply:Doctors.
Reply:Everything in moderation, so I think a little of both are needed. God doesn't want us to be ignorant, so science is a major part of knowledge, and you need to believe in God for hope and faith in what we do.
Reply:i don' t think one think necessarily excludes the other based on numbers i think people in christian etc hospitals healed most people, think of mother Theresa
Reply:Psa.37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Reply:Medical science cures more people than miracles ever hoped to cure. believe it!
Reply:Religiuos leaders are NOT in the business of healing "serious medical conditions" they are in the business of healing their souls for the afterlife. But since this type of 'healing' is often not as noticable than being healed from cancer, it is still FAR more important than the physical healing, Why? 'cause when a person with let's say, cancer does die, unless his/her soul has been 'healed' they will suffer more in the afterlife than they did in the present life. However, there will be no pain or suffering in Heaven Romans 8 v18
Reply:medical research.
Reply:Even though Doctors are men and women of science, they also believe in faith. Being a person of science does not preclude having faith in a higher power, and most doctors will tell you that they have seen miracles and things they cannot explain away with science. In the long run however, doctors have touched and healed more people than can be counted...all with the help of a bit of faith. So your answer is both.
Reply:The purpose of religion should not be to heal the sick.
Reply:Both. Religion heals the spirit, doctors heal the body. Sometimes they cross over and one allows for the other. Curing someone's disease may help them to have faith and be spiritually healed as well. OR having faith and believing in God can give us strength for our bodies to heal that we might not otherwise have.
Reply:Doctors heal physical conditions, but sometimes people need a religious leader to heal their soul.
Reply:religious leaders Lol
Reply:Let's make it fair and say put your cash where you think God is directing you to. I believe God gave medics their knowledge and all good healing comes from him anyway.
Reply:I think they're equal partners. God has provided doctors with the skill %26amp; knowledge to heal us physically, but God still can and does work miracles. Example - my mother-in-law had stage 4 lung cancer (verified by second opinion). She had a tumor in her neck that was associated with it, and had moved into her lymph nodes, which is usually considered terminal. She was given 6 weeks to live w/o chemo, 6-7 months w/chemo. That was 2 1/2 years ago. Not only is she still alive, but the tumor has srunk and her prognosis for full recovery is now very good. Doctors pronounced her dead, but prayer coupled with chemotherapy healed her. Which one was not needed here? In my opinion both were absolutely necessary for her recovery, making the doctors partners with God even if they were unaware of it.
Reply:When christians and other mythologists are ill they should wait to see if their faith heals them. It could be a good way of culling the zealots and chanters of mumbo jumbo. The rest of us will be getting cured at the doctors like intelligent people.
Reply:Boy you sure have a chip on your shoulder.


Again check out the facts before you stir up your muck.


Church's were the ones who started most of the original Hospitals and universities.
Reply:Religion never healed any one I am a Christian and I can tell you , if more are healed by Doctors, it is because more believe in Doctors than God. God is the Healer, and only Faith can do the work.
Reply:All medical advances in the world are inspired and given to us by the grace of God so we should direct our efforts towards both... and cleaning up pollution too :)
Reply:Get a kick out of this one -





I'm a religious man becoming a doctor.





Here's another one to shock you -





I'm far from alone.





Honestly, do you really think that religion has absolutely no hand in science? Do you think that it is an 'either/or' process put forth by religious systems. Just how much of your information do you base your life off of from USA Today and People magazine. No seriously.





Now answer me this one. What is the success rate of modern medicine in keeping people alive? While you get our your toy calculator I'll just give you the answer - 0% success rate. Everyone that has been cared for by modern medicine has died or will die. Doctors, secular and religious, will do their best alonside religious leaders to provide a quality of life, but in the end medicine fails.





Now you, in all your wisdom, ignore the end part. You say it's just an end and that is that. We die and no more. But you are a small percentage. Two standard deviations outside the bell curve. You are somewhat anti-societal in the fact that most people are not like you, and do indeed care about their death and what may come after.





You call these people, sheeple. It's cute, but it demonstrates your ignorance of who would just be considered a sheeple under your heading. Unfortunately for you, many of these sheeple are regarded and intellectual, educated, rational, and sometimes geniuses by most people's standards. Most people want human effort dedicated to religion and to medical science. That is why religion is still around and growing just as well as science. They are two pieces of the human condition most normal people are interested in.





Wow. I'm going to sit outside, read a book, and try to make peace with the concept of people like you.





You just keep copy and pasting those one liners from the rich supply of atheist websites online.





Spew your hate.
Reply:It's all a matter of beliefs, as nothing can literally be proven--not even my existence at this very moment can be PROVEN, if you think about it (maybe you're dreaming, maybe your mind is in a vat...Who knows?). But because medical research can include anything and everything and religious is a matter of something VERY different, very personal, and very diverse (not everyone in the word is a Catholic but anyone in the world can be taken care of by a professional doctor), I would the majority say efforts should be directed toward medical research.





P.S.: I also like that you said "the majority." :)
Reply:Doctors
Reply:a) churches firstly started hospitals


b) often miracles happen that doctors can't predict, through prayer


c) the husband of someone I know personally had his paralysed legs healed after hours of prayer (he was a christian)