A ‘faith healing’ session

Shalini, a staunch atheist, went to a ‘faith healing’ session, and lives to tell the tale:

I felt pity and rage at the same time. I felt pity for the sick who attended desperately seeking a miracle. I felt pity for the sick children whose parents chose to drag to the deception healing crusade instead of receiving medical care. It was indeed a heart-wrenching sight to see the disabled, the deaf and the blind with looks of longing and hope on their faces as they ‘surrendered their fates’ to an imaginary god. I was filled with rage at the people who could even consider feeding tantalizing, false hopes to people who are desperately seeking a miracle just to propagate their religious convictions. I felt rage for the entire system of self-deception and suspension of disbelief.