[Going to the doctor is apparently evil ]
I have not been to the doctor in years. I think I am going on about three years now since I have been to the doctor. Praise the Lord. You know, I went to the doctor three years ago because I got a really bad bronchial infection, you know, bronchitis. I think you had that recently. I had bronchitis and I had to...and I struggled with it for like a month just trying to get over it. It was not going anywhere, you know, so I had to go and get the antibiotics and get over that.
There is a time when you are forced to go to the doctor. But let me tell you something, going to the doctor is not a positive thing. Going to the doctor is not the end all, be all. Going to the doctor can actually be a negative thing. Did you know that? I am going to show you that in the Bible a little bit further. But going to the doctor is a negative thing. You should only use the doctor as a last resort. This is just wisdom from the Bible.
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Well, then why were people in the Bible days living to be 120 years old? Tell me that. Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid.
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"Well, then why were people in the Bible days living to be 120 years old? Tell me that. Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid."
For the same reason that Cuchulainn had 7 fingers on each hand and 7 pupils in each eye, or the same reason that Herakles was able to strangle two snakes in his crib when he was a baby, or the same reason that Superman gains incredible powers from being in the vicinity of a yellow sun: Namely, fictional characters can be or do anything.
"Well, then why were people in the Bible days living to be 120 years old? Tell me that. Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid. "
Because it's a book of fairy-tales and fables, genius. Honestly, why is this so hard for you people to grasp?
Tell me that. Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid.
Because the age in the bible is made up just like the rest of the content. You don't actually believe that people lived to the ripe old age of 900 years, do you? You do! Wow!
"Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid."
Ooh, ooh! *raises hand* because Moses didn´t exists?
"Why was Moses 123 years old as he died [ ... snip ... ]Chapter and Verse, please.
I don't believe Moses's age when he died was mentioned ANYWHERE in the Bible.
Moses, or at least some leader who fulfilled the same role (lawgiving and organizing the Israelites, at minimum) probably existed, but I doubt he lived to 120+. It's not absolutely impossible, though.
Even if he did, though, this is a dumb argument. Some very exceptional people have lived to 120 years old <i>now</i>. Also, modern medicine has little to do with the extremes of longevity; it mostly makes more people able to live to old ages, but most people's bodies will simply wear out before 100+. Jeanne Calment (oldest person well documented, 122 yrs) seems not to have relied on heavy medical care; she would have been over 60 when antibiotics became available.
Medicine helps the NORMAL people more than it helps those with extreme vitality, who would do fine anyway.
You're right! Doctors are of the devil, after all, they use science. Next time you get sick, please, please don't visit the doctor. Tell all of your fundie friends not to either, and that way, the herd will be thinned out.
Ok, cool, so you don't visit doctors unless absolutely necessary. Lovely, me too.
I, however, bet you've taken aspirins for headache, cough medicines, cold medicines, and other little bits of science throughout those three years. So, kindly shut up.
The sad thing is that idiots who listen to Pastor Anderson (and others like him) take this advice seriously. These idiots can and do have children, who needlessly suffer from their parent's idiotic religion.
http://www.childrenshealthcare.org/
The quality and outcome of treatment one would have gotten from a "doctor" 2000 years ago was the reason many would have seen going to the doctor as a "negative thing", moron. I'm guessing that if they'd known about anti-biotics, heart surgery, or just aspirin, for that matter, they'd have thought differently.
Because its a story book.
Also yes, going to the doctor is bad. If you get horribly sick that just means god is ready to take you to his heavenly kingdom of joy and love and peace forever and ever and ever. Why so afraid?
because it's a fairy tale. he wasn't, he didn't, he couldn't.
the Bible is not real history
Well, then why were people in the Bible days living to be 120 years old? Tell me that. Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid.
For the same reason that Count Dracula lived so long. Their not real.
You should go to the doctor two or three times a year if you can. You could have some sort of silent problem in your body and not know it.
Sort of some sense and some crazy here. Yes, you don't need to go to the doctor for every little thing. No, staying away from the doctor as a point of pride is not good amd makes everyone's life much harder, which is selfish.
"Well, then why were people in the Bible days living to be 120 years old? Tell me that. Why was Moses 123 years old as he died if he was so medically stupid."
For the same reason that Homestar Runner can manipulate objects without any visible arms.
You need to go to school to learn how to write English. The endless repetition is tedious.
I go to the doctor every three months - it's the norm in France. This catches any situations that could be serious in good time. I'm of an age when the prostate has to be watched and recently, when examined, the doc had lots of tests carries out. It was a false alarm. But if it had been for real, then my chances of surviving a cancer would have been quite good.
But you choose not to go. How wonderfully irresponsible!
No, if doctors are evil you shouldn't go at all. Never ever, getting antibiotics showed how weak your faith was, no heaven for you.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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