RE: In Defense of God.
June 25, 2017 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2017 at 9:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 25, 2017 at 8:55 pm)Astonished Wrote: If everyone on earth is healthy but one, shouldn't there be some kind of obligation to treat that person's illness?IMO? Yeah, lol. If someone is sick we help them.
Quote:Especially if there's a risk of that person's condition worsening or that they might infect others and start an epidemic?Sure.
Quote:This is the faith virus, it can't be trusted to just be left alone and hoped to be passive and dormant, it has to be vaccinated against 100%. It can't even be compared to sickle cell anemia which at least has the benefit of preventing malaria.
Well, I'll use the analogy. It can certainly be argued that there are deadly strains of this virus. OTOH, there also seem to be benign ones. It makes little sense to treat someone who has the theological equivalent of a sinus infection as though they had the theological equivalent of ebola. Particularly if that person with the sinus infection wasn't trying to spread it. We might say, hey..man, you should go see someone about that. Here's some over the counter stuff that worked for me, or that works for others....but more than that?
More hypothetically, isn't it at least conceivable that there might be beneficial strains of a virus or a bacteria? What would be the impetus in treating those? Perhaps a little bit of a benign religion inoculates us against a big case of bad religion?
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