RE: The Vilest Anti-Vaccine Lie
February 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2012 at 12:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 7, 2012 at 11:38 am)Minimalist Wrote: I bet jesus approves, though.
I bet he did. The more a man is successfully encouraged to doubt men's capacity to master his fate through perserverence, effort and knowledge, the more he easily he is turned to religion.
(February 7, 2012 at 11:40 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Surprisingly, Min, this isn't much of a religious issue. Rather like organics, it spans the spectrum.
I think both the organic and the vaccine issues have their origins in a fundamental mistrust of humanity's ability to systematically improve upon the world in which he finds himself. It is better to leave thing be, or do things in what one conceive to be the way nature "intended" it, then to actually try and become better than a primitive savage. Any attempt at improvement is "arrogance", any application of systematic knowledge suspect.
When humanity believes that it could not improve its own lot through its own endeavors, then religion comes in to take advantage of the situation with bait and switch.
It's not religion per se, but it is reflective of a fundamental problem of which religion is one of the worse consequences.
