viruses were created because people are sinful and they are a way to remove sin from society. God is not to blame for their existance, the only people to blame are those who live lives of sin and allow themselves to become infected
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"God" didn't create everything? The Bible lied to me?
Any viral disease is caused by sin?
Does that mean, since more elderly people die of viral diseases than do people in the prime of life, that elderly people live more sinful lives?
Yeh those sinful natives being exterminated by European diseases when they invaded.
Hmmm, trivia for today:
Did you know St Fiacre was patron saint of amongst other things, venereal disease, sterility, syphilis, piles, fistula and haemorrhoids.
He was also patron St of hosiers; pewterers; taxi drivers; tile makers; box makers; cab drivers; florists and gardeners;
Scary stuff....
So if you die from a particular nasty strain of a virus AV, it was because you deserved it.
If your sick and you know it, its your fault. If your sick and you know it, its your fault. If you got raped or murdered or infected with an illness its your fault.
Sadly I couldn't find a composite site, but just thinking about Stalin and hitler and all those guys that God spared from disease. (AND ISN'T IT ODD IN A WORDE FULL OF "MORAL DECAY" THAT WE LIVE IN NOW, DISEASE HARMS US LESS AND LESS!!!)
Anyway, ever heard of St Francis Xavier! (He's pretty big in Australia - got a lot of schools named after him!)
He was known as the Apostle to the Far East.
Nobleman from the Basque reqion. Studied and taught philosophy at the University of Paris, and planned a career as a professor. Friend of Saint Ignatius of Loyola who convinced him to use his talents to spread the Gospel. One of the founding Jesuits, and the first Jesuit missionary. Priest.
In Goa, while waiting to take ship, India, he preached in the street, worked with the sick, and taught children their catechism. He would walk through the streets ringing a bell to call the children to their studies. Said to have converted the entire city.
He scolded his patron, King John of Portugal, over the slave trade: "You have no right to spread the Catholic faith while you take away all the country's riches. It upsets me to know that at the hour of your death you may be ordered out of paradise."
Tremendously successful missionary for ten years in India, the East Indies, and Japan, baptizing more than 40,000. His epic finds him dining with head hunters, washing sores of lepers in Venice, teaching catechism to Indian children, baptizing 10,000 in a single month. He tolerated the most appalling conditions on long sea voyages, enduring extremes of heat and cold. Wherever he went he would seek out and help the poor and forgotten. He traveled thousands of miles, most on his bare feet, and he saw the greater part of the Far East. Had the gift of tongues. Miracle worker. Raised people from the dead. Calmed storms. Prophet. Healer.
Died: 2 December 1552 at Sancian, China of a fever contracted on a mission journey...
What a complete bastard! Go God! Smite that sinner!
AngryNotice, the people of FSTDT would like you to prove your point and your faith by consenting to be bitten by a rabid weasel several times. If you do not contract the rabies virus, we will consider you to be both correct and faithful, and we shall all become Christian. If you do become infected by the rabies virus, we will spit on your grave. If you do not agree to be bitten by a rabid weasel, or you obtain vaccination against rabies after the bite, we will consider you to be full of shit. Thank you.
If virusses are sent by God to "remove sin from society" (does he mean "the sinful"?), then logcailly, the immune system must have been created by Satan.
This cold I have makes me feel like death warmed up, but I'm pretty sure I'll neither die nor become any less sinful because of it.
Oh, THIS guy again. Still thinks he's a science expert, I see, and still spouting the most amazingly antiscientific nonsense.
~David D.G.
If god created viruses, and god created imperfect man prone to sinning, then damn right he is to blame.
He created every fucking thing, remember? You can't pick and choose the bits in your own bullshit that you don't like.
"viruses were created because people are sinful and they are a way to remove sin from society. God is not to blame for their existance, the only people to blame are those who live lives of sin and allow themselves to become infected"
Those invol;ved in the Smallpox Eradication Programme would like a word with you.
Strange then, that secular scientists could not only beat what was one of the most lethal diseases out there (and far worse than that Biblical favourite, Leprosy), but nowadays have the power to make a disease completely extinct if they so wish.
Science - 1. God - 0.
...oh, and one more thing: Even said Biblical favourite, Leprosy, is easily treatable today.
...you were saying?
Again.
How can anyone be part of a religion that immediately labels fellow members that have illnesses, conditions or accidents as sinful or without the grace of God?
I've seen you overweight, stupid, excessive Tea-Partiers and Tent-Revival nuts. You're anything but healthy, fit or free from medical problems. Many of you are the crowd that made deep fried butter a market!
What's it like to have yourself or family members condemned at your church every Sunday?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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