My non-mormon friend said that was one of the weirdest parts, that everyday mormon men can just cure someone’s sickness, just like that. He asked, why don’t they just go to hospitals and fix everyone? I had to stop myself from regurgitating the chant “it doesn’t work like that!” I said, “you’re exactly right. Somehow they convince everyone that although they have this power, it only works if people have the faith to be healed, AND God wills it.”
“That is batshit crazy.”
He’s right, we were taught to believe that we have magic powers, but even in the missionary handbook it says that we are discouraged from walking around hospitals offering blessings.
Oh, and women don’t get this power. But technically they do, they just have to pray really hard.
You know what would make me convert to a religion? If some dude showed up in the hospital, did some Naruto hand gestures, and all of a sudden people were healed and leaving.
Yep, say me and the wife were back at the Children’s Hospital we both worked at, and some middle-eastern/maybe-hasicidic/probablynotwhite dude walks in, lays hands, and suddenly all the kids are cured?
Like, lets do scans. Lets check. We have the ability now, and this would be the place.
Oh snap, really?
My name is Paul now? Sure, I figured of all the original apostles, I would have been Judas, but whatevs.