[ SECRET POST #3090 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3090 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's scary how much influence pious anti-medicine crackpots have had at the highest levels of USA government. Two of Dick Nixon's closest advisers were Church of Christ, Scientist, an "idealist" religion that believes in praying away illness.

D:

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, it's ridiculous. Part of the problem is that while most people who self-identify as Christian in the U.S. aren't hardcore about it, they also don't want to come out and say that prayers aren't effective enough as medical treatment. Oh, if they get sick or their kids get sick, they want a doctor and real medical treatment, but they're still reluctant to come down hard on the fringe sects of Christianity who take it to the extreme.

[(Anonymous)]

+1
This.

[diet_poison]

k I'll say it

I identify as a Christian in the US and people who think prayer should take the place of medicine are silly, and people who deny their kids medical treatment are committing neglect and should be jailed.

I think the latter is a pretty common attitude though I'm not sure about the former. (I believe prayer has spiritual value, I don't think we should just try to pray away everything and not actually DO anything about it, that's really just silly. But I've seen varying approaches to this.)

(Also, I'm not trying to claim to be the voice of American Christianity or anything, and by and large American Christianity is much, much more conservative and anti-science than I am, not gonna deny that at all)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

As a Christian in Australia I view people who say prayer should replace medicine as denying God's gifts of the intelligence to make scientific/medical breakthroughs.

(I am not the voice of Australian Christianity either, this is just my personal opinion on the real relationship between God and science.)

[diet_poison]

IA.

He gave us brains!

Out of curiosity, how conservative/anti-science are Christians in Australia, in general?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I don't really know, I have not been to church regularly in a long time. I rather hope the rest of the country isn't too bad, though I think we have a small advantage because we're considered "non-religious" as a nation (we have plenty of religion but we strongly believe in the separation of Church and State).