I work in a hospital that pays homage to the acronyms daily. You know, the FDA, the CDC, the USDA. Not to mention BigPharma. My coworker with whom I have many a “debate” still is having a hard time digesting the fact that the word “witchcraft” in Gal5:20 is “pharmakeia” in the Greek. Yep the Pharmacy is no more than a witch’s cauldron. I know you won’t agree, but if you would let your eyes open just a little, the light could get in.
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"I work in a hospital..."
Doing what exactly? Push a mop?
"I know you won’t agree, but if you would let your eyes open just a little, the light could get in."
And if you would open your brain a little there would probably be a sudden rush of air, since nature abhors a vacuum.
Yes, damn those hospitals and pharmacies that give people life-saving drugs. What awful heathens!
Hey, rusosure, I have an experiment for you. Try to live with diabetes, or heart disease, or clinical depression, and just "pray it away". You have fun with that.
There are reasons why even the New Testament said if you're sick cover yourself in oil and head to a temple and pray!
Medicine is only "evil" if you're a superstitious fuckwit living off primitive babble.
Um, no.
Witchcraft is English - the craft of witches.wicce , the feminine form of wicca , meaning 'wizard', from Proto-Germanic wikkjaz (necromancer). At no point in its etymology did it ever touch 'pharmakeia', although it does extend back to proto-Indo-European weg- meaning 'to be strong'.
You can't extrapolate much of any worth from the fact that your Bible is mistranslated!
Oh and "In a c.1250 translation of "Exodus," witches is used of the Egyptian midwives who save the newborn sons of the Hebrews. "
As a future pharmacist, I take offense. To say that my chosen profession is witchcraft is utterly ignorant and completely base.
But I can understand his outrage...BigPharma makes birth control and AIDS medication...god knows the world would be better if there was no contraception and use fear to prevent people from having sex. And keeping AIDS and HIV victims alive is just plain heresy, I mean, they're probably gay anyways, or African.
Yep, modern drug research is only modern potion boiling.
In fact almost half the staff in any drug company are professional dancers, performing their arts around the chemical tanks to give them their potency.
That stuff about chemical compounds and receptor interactions are just for show.
Technically, this fundiebot is right: the Gk pharmakeia in Gal 5:20 is translated as "witchcraft" in the KJV.
However, IMO this says more about the skills of King James' translators than it does about any relationship between pharmaceutics and wicca.
Gotta say that this site is fun but in this guy's defense, I have to wonder how much better off society would be if we didn't look so quickly to outside quick fixes. Is it so hard to believe that we're creating a society of dependence on pharmaceticals. How many different bottles of pills are in your medicine chest?
Um.
What the OP failed to state was that the word translated as 'witchcraft' in the english language bible actually is pharmakeia. You know, mixing herbs/potions? The bible never condemned witchcraft, just this 'pharmakeia'.
Which serves to condemn just to condemn bible-thumping-fundies, not the hospital.
QED, OP =/= fundie.
Oh, this is irony on the same level as the cofounder of PETA using insulin medication (which is, surprise, surprise, made using, and perfected through testing involving, animals.)
Probably because "Pharmacy", like many other strange words, prolly came from a Greek meaning "drugs" or something.
*Wikipedia*
Yeah, "pharmacy" is derived from the Greek for "drugs", which makes sense.
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