{"id":293,"date":"2011-02-18T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/02\/18\/one-leg-shorter-than-the-other-miracle\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:51:00","slug":"one-leg-shorter-than-the-other-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/02\/18\/one-leg-shorter-than-the-other-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"One Leg Shorter Than The Other Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long standing friend of mine who was “born again” and now a fervent Young Earth Creationist once told me that a turning point for him was a miracle he witnessed performed on him by a pastor. My friend had one leg shorter than the other, but the pastor, through the power of God, caused the short leg to grow.<\/p>\n

But then 2 days ago a teenage girl told me that what convinced her of the reality of Jesus where she witnessed a person with one leg shorter than the other receive the same miracle cure.<\/p>\n

She also added that she herself has healed, by prayer, the dislocated collar bone of her friend (which I know something about as I have one too – this can only ever be rectified by surgery).<\/p>\n

Well, I have only ever been told of a couple of such miracles by friends and acquaintances, and I was struck by the one leg short than the other miracle cropping up twice. Bit of a coincidence I thought. So I surfed the internet and found this very interesting resource<\/a>. Turns out this is a standard trick employed by “faith healers”.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to interrogate the girl who thinks she herself performed a miracle on a friend’s collar bone. She did say she had photographic evidence of the collar bone before and after. However, I do know that someone with a collar bone dislocated at the outer end rarely has surgery (it’s almost always cosmetic and not done on NHS). The person is left with a bone that either stick up and out acutely and visibly, or else disappears entirely, depending on which position you put your shoulder in. I have exactly this condition. I have a strong suspicion that this teenage girl’s “patient” is an evangelic con artist with a dislocated collar bone like mine which he\/she uses to convince punters that they have “performed a miracle”. By rolling their should slightly they can make the dislocation disappear right before your eyes! He\/she gets them to take a picture before and after so they have a permanent record of the power of Jesus with which to convince others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long standing friend of mine who was “born again” and now a fervent Young Earth Creationist once told me that a turning point for him was a miracle he witnessed performed on him by a pastor. My friend had one leg shorter than the other, but the pastor, through the power of God, caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}