If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate.
Carl Sagan.
2006-12-10 11:26:55 · 21 answers · asked by Socratic Pig 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, those are the two choices. I'll bet Carl Sagan, who was an atheist, stated that to point out how people who think prayer works still trust innoculation more.
2006-12-10 11:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's only a very small sect of Christianity, and other religions out there, that don't believe in medical technology, and yet, this is the type of group that most "skeptics" prefer to attack. Mostly because it's easier to attack an extremist group, than go after the more reasonable members. I've also seen Penn and Teller do the same thing in their show, which leads me to agree, that the show is properly named, and that name really does apply to it...
This is just another unimaginative attack on religion by yet another Atheist, and yes, I lump Carl Sagan, an ex board member of CSICOP, in that catagory. CSICOP is the self-appointed inquisition of the new preisthood of fundamentalist atheist materialism.
Most of the religious out there believe in praying for the best, but also inoculate, especially since:
1) God made us, and how our bodies operate.
2) Medical science works with the way our bodies operate to protect and heal them.
There is no real contradiction in a belief in God, and taking proper medical precautions, even without the implied contradiction in this quote from Sagan. This more shows the prejudices of an avowed Atheist, than the contradictions in Religion.
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2006-12-10 19:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to save your child from polio is to inoculate.
2006-12-10 19:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if you choose innoculation, you have to decide whether or not you believe in evolution. If you don't, then an older, weaker vaccine should work, because the virus can't evolve to resist the vaccine - God made the polio virus exactly as it is today.
2006-12-10 19:30:41 · answer #4 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd agree though it is safer to use medical technology to guarantee positive results. Afterall, Luke in the New Testament was a physician, so obviously you can mix medicine with spirituality.
2006-12-10 19:38:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both
2006-12-10 19:30:11 · answer #6 · answered by gitsliveon24 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both
2006-12-10 19:30:11 · answer #7 · answered by spanky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not just go to america where polio isn't a problem anymore? that's the best solution. so basically i'm saying i disagree.
2006-12-10 19:29:36 · answer #8 · answered by Shamus O'Larry 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Inoculate.Thank God for Jonas Saulk. God never said not to use remedies or doctors.Luke was a doctor and God used him to write two books(Luke and Acts) in the Bible.
2006-12-10 19:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There once was a great flood and a man sat on his roof top. A boat came to save him and he tol them no thanks I'm waiting on God. the water increased and antother boat came to rescue the poor man and again he told them no thanks i am waiting on God...the flood increased to the point it had nearly covered the poor man and a helicopter came and he waved the copter off telling them he was waiting on God then man drowned and met with God and aske why didnt you rescue me? God replied I sent two boats and a helicopter.
2006-12-10 19:32:53 · answer #10 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋