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Marshall Brain (appropriate name) is the voice behind the \u201cWhy Won\u2019t God Heal Amputees\u201d site. He\u2019s also deeply invested in the transhumanist hope of someday ditching our bodies so as to live, if not forever, at least till the parts wear out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is, at the end of the day, a curious note of cowardice in the inchoate longing of the atheist for some technological way to avoid death. May God grant him the grace to face what he shall surely face one day and surrender it to God rather than clutch at it as Satan clutched at supremacy.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something deeply pitiable\u2013and contemptible\u2013here. Like Gollum.<\/p>\n

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Marshall Brain (appropriate name) is the voice behind the \u201cWhy Won\u2019t God Heal Amputees\u201d site. He\u2019s also deeply invested in the transhumanist hope of someday ditching our bodies so as to live, if not forever, at least till the parts wear out. There is, at the end of the day, a curious note of cowardice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThis makes sense<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marshall Brain (appropriate name) is the voice behind the "Why Won't God Heal Amputees" site. 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