That's so fucking disgusting. If I let a child die because "Satan told me to", I'd be sentenced and locked up in a psych prison. The only reason this shit gets any traction at all is because there's a religious monopoly. Ugh.
"The leading cause for death to this day - documented in a book called 'Death by Medicine' - is medical mistakes: 783,229 deaths per year," Clark said.
And what was the leading cause of death before medicine, you utter fucktard?
More depressing is the state of the poll before the Pharyngulists Freeped it (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/lets_poll_the_readers_and_see.php).
In a parallel universe where the US government gives a shit, the low-lying areas of the Mississippi delta were being evacuated ahead of Hurricane Katrina. There was a man who refused to leave his home, saying "God will provide." The National Guard had a few hundred thousand other people to help, so they rolled their eyes and left.
Katrina made landfall, and sure enough, the ocean overtopped the levees, but remember, because this is a parallel universe, the Army Corps of Engineers hadn't totally screwed the pooch on maintenance, and the levees held, so the pumps draining water into Lake Ponchartrain weren't effectively continuing to flood New Orleans as the water just flowed right back out through the broken levee.
The man who'd refused evacuation was on the flood plain in Mississippi, however, so that was just an editorial aside. Anyway, the man watched, the waters rose around his house. He prayed for God to save him. When there was about a foot of water sloshing around the ground floor, a neighbor who also hadn't evacuated came by in a little fishing boat with an outboard motor. "Get in!" she said to the man.
"No, God will save me," he insisted.
"Fine." The woman left in her boat to go help someone who wasn't going to be stupid about it.
The waters continued to rise, and as they engulfed the second floor, the local Marine Patrol cruised by in a bigger boat. "Can you swim? Come out to the boat!" they shouted through the window to the man.
"No! God will provide!" he shouted back. Because they were professionals, the Marine Patrol was more persistent than the woman had been, but they eventually gave the man up for a hopeless case and left, just as the woman had.
And the waters continued to rise. Eventually the man was forced onto the roof of his house, where he prayed even harder for God to save him.
The spotter in a FEMA search-and-rescue helicopter noticed the man on his roof, and the crew circled around to pick him up. They lowered a looped strap on a rope. "Put your arms through it!" they yelled to him. "We'll pull you up!"
"No! God will save me!" the man yelled right back over the sound of the rotors.
Helicopters don't really have enough flight time to hang around arguing when there's SAR'ing to be done, and so the FEMA crew flew off to rescue other people.
The waters continued to rise, and sure enough, the man died in the flood waters, praying right up until the point he started to panic from the drowning reflex.
Since this is a parallel universe, there actually is a God, and as the recently deceased man stood before Him, he asked plaintively, "Lord, why didn't You do anything for me? I prayed and prayed and my faith was strong!"
"The fuck are you on about?" God replied. "I sent you two boats and a helicopter!"
Generalizing this case is left as an exercise for the student.
So they rely on God to provide 'healing' - but what's the betting they travel around in a car, buy their food at the shops, light their house with electricity, get their water from the tap etc bloody etc? These freaks are perfectly happy to use all the services and goods that God provides for them via modern technology, agriculture and engineering, instead of making everything themselves (or waiting for God to come down and personally hand it to them). So why the fecking hell won't they also use the medical science that God has provided?????
You're expecting critical thinking and logic from people who we *already know* to be religious, and thus to have at least one crippling disability in their rational processes.
Once you've failed at thinking hard enough to be religious, no other stupid decisions you make can be considered surprising.
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Date: 2010-12-08 12:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 12:54 am (UTC)And what was the leading cause of death before medicine, you utter fucktard?
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Date: 2010-12-08 01:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 01:28 am (UTC)Katrina made landfall, and sure enough, the ocean overtopped the levees, but remember, because this is a parallel universe, the Army Corps of Engineers hadn't totally screwed the pooch on maintenance, and the levees held, so the pumps draining water into Lake Ponchartrain weren't effectively continuing to flood New Orleans as the water just flowed right back out through the broken levee.
The man who'd refused evacuation was on the flood plain in Mississippi, however, so that was just an editorial aside. Anyway, the man watched, the waters rose around his house. He prayed for God to save him. When there was about a foot of water sloshing around the ground floor, a neighbor who also hadn't evacuated came by in a little fishing boat with an outboard motor. "Get in!" she said to the man.
"No, God will save me," he insisted.
"Fine." The woman left in her boat to go help someone who wasn't going to be stupid about it.
The waters continued to rise, and as they engulfed the second floor, the local Marine Patrol cruised by in a bigger boat. "Can you swim? Come out to the boat!" they shouted through the window to the man.
"No! God will provide!" he shouted back. Because they were professionals, the Marine Patrol was more persistent than the woman had been, but they eventually gave the man up for a hopeless case and left, just as the woman had.
And the waters continued to rise. Eventually the man was forced onto the roof of his house, where he prayed even harder for God to save him.
The spotter in a FEMA search-and-rescue helicopter noticed the man on his roof, and the crew circled around to pick him up. They lowered a looped strap on a rope. "Put your arms through it!" they yelled to him. "We'll pull you up!"
"No! God will save me!" the man yelled right back over the sound of the rotors.
Helicopters don't really have enough flight time to hang around arguing when there's SAR'ing to be done, and so the FEMA crew flew off to rescue other people.
The waters continued to rise, and sure enough, the man died in the flood waters, praying right up until the point he started to panic from the drowning reflex.
Since this is a parallel universe, there actually is a God, and as the recently deceased man stood before Him, he asked plaintively, "Lord, why didn't You do anything for me? I prayed and prayed and my faith was strong!"
"The fuck are you on about?" God replied. "I sent you two boats and a helicopter!"
Generalizing this case is left as an exercise for the student.
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Date: 2010-12-08 04:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 04:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 04:43 am (UTC)*headdesk*
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Date: 2010-12-08 05:39 am (UTC)Oh wait...that's the power of privilege.
saw it and just couldn't help thinking of you:
Date: 2010-12-08 06:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 06:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 11:16 am (UTC)These freaks are perfectly happy to use all the services and goods that God provides for them via modern technology, agriculture and engineering, instead of making everything themselves (or waiting for God to come down and personally hand it to them). So why the fecking hell won't they also use the medical science that God has provided?????
Re: saw it and just couldn't help thinking of you:
Date: 2010-12-08 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: saw it and just couldn't help thinking of you:
Date: 2010-12-08 03:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 03:45 pm (UTC)Once you've failed at thinking hard enough to be religious, no other stupid decisions you make can be considered surprising.
Re: saw it and just couldn't help thinking of you:
Date: 2010-12-08 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: saw it and just couldn't help thinking of you:
Date: 2010-12-08 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 08:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-08 08:34 pm (UTC)