It's really hard to know what to say about the following clip. As a doctor I am appalled by it. It is the kind of preaching that leads to tragedy. It might seem like an extreme case, but I don't think it is. It shows a preacher telling his congregation doctors and medicine won't do them any good, only do them harm. He doesn't hold out the promise God will heal them. He instead promotes a passive fatalism implicit in the idea of a God that is all powerful and all wise and everything happens according to his plan. Including your cancer and your death. End of story.
Well, not exactly the end. The punchline comes at the very end:
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Sorry, found this hard to understand. Do you have a transcript. Oh! never mind it is crap anyway.
It's almost, almost, stand-up comedy. His delivery is that of a stand-up, and the content is so close to comic absurdity.
Crap punchline though.
If this is the standard of the speakers I dread to imagine what the poster session was like.
Hey, no fair! He's from Florida, and you're holding him to the standards of the reality-based community!
For a person who almost died from a heart attack he has a strange way preventing or understanding it. Glad I am not from his church!
No fair Revere,
The punch line is always the same and you knew that.
Evangelical preachers always want money for telling you that God's word is all you need for illness.
Doctor's always want money for actually healing, or at least trying.
Let's see, do I chose A or B.
Know what? Anyone who believes that stuff is just plain stupid, as in, clinically stupid. The world is 60% overpopulated. If people who are obviously stupid want to darwinize themselves, GOOD. That will reduce the load on Earth's carrying capacity and also help raise the mean average IQ. And life will be better by some small but measurable degree for the rest of us.
Yes, I'm deadly serious about this.
g336: You are right. And I never want to meet you.
g336: Love the way you think.
g336 is correct in his/her perspective... Indeed, I fervently believe on an unconscious level, many "clinically stupid" individuals -- usually religious fundamentalists (not spiritual folk) -- desire the end of the world (rapture). This will of course drag the rest of us into the shit. Cos if one looks at how governments are responding to H5N1, one would be forgiven for the feeling these darlings --and yes, I'm talking about Indonesian, American and Australian federal governments -- are like fundo Lemmings desiring the conclusion of contemporary civilization via some manmade catastrophe they can (by way of delusion) attribute to God!?!