I'm skeptical that it is possible to make fried beer. I find it hard to believe that one can be human and not be a hypocrite at least some times. I'm skeptical that atheist doctors will actually conspire to kill you sooner than other doctors. I'm skeptical that science experiments always work.
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Anyone practising Bible-based medicine might believe:
1) in medical miracles. If so, they forget the medical axiom "all patients die." It is pointless to keep me alive against my wishes because I will eventually escape.
2) they are saving my soul because suicide is wrong. In which case, that is clearly an imposition of their religion on me and not a legitimate medical decision -- by any stretch of the imagination.
I think it's pretty obvious that that isn't possible - what I'm interested to know is whether the same holds for the opposite: can a human being always be a hypocrite - i.e. in every single statement they make during a lifetime? There are a few so-called 'religious leaders' I haven't caught making even a single, public, non-hypocritical statement for decades, so I wonder if one of them will make it to the end of their life with a spot-less record of hypocrisy.