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#297234
Patches
Which is why the United States has one of the highest mortality rates and lowest life expectancies in the First World.
9/28/2007 9:16:25 PM
#297242
happymealungen
Patches:
Which is why the United States has one of the highest mortality rates and lowest life expectancies in the First World.
I'd say the second amendment is to blame for that,
9/28/2007 9:23:50 PM
#297244
Osiris
Okay, but how come Sweden has such a low mortality rate and fine health care?
9/28/2007 9:25:42 PM
#297250
cool cats
Why do I have this image in my head of Katy-Anne as a leper wandering outside the gates of a iron-age city shouting "unclean! unclean!" to whoever passes by?
9/28/2007 9:34:06 PM
#297251
szena
Which principles? You mean like considering menstruating women unclean and not allowing crippled people in church?
9/28/2007 9:36:14 PM
#297269
Mike
Weren't Christians back in the days (middle ages) took only one bath per year? Hmmmm?
9/28/2007 10:06:59 PM
#297272
John
If this were true, disease should have started declining 2,000 year ago due to Christian hygiene. But 1,400 years after Christianity began, 1/3 of the human population of Europe was killed by the Plague. Why did smallpox and polio kill people until the invention of vaccinations? Did Christians suddenly start following Biblical health and hygiene principles in the 19th century? Does Katy Anne even listen to the nonsense she spouts?
9/28/2007 10:09:04 PM
#297283
Detrs
Stop talking. No really; just shut up for about four years and go read some history books (no, the books of the bible don't count).
9/28/2007 10:28:14 PM
#297291
Seamus D
Wow! Such ignorance! I'm almost impressed.
You really should study some history and talk to a doctor. A modern doctor, not a "christian scientist."
9/28/2007 10:57:07 PM
#297296
Brian X
Uh, no. Christianity was long notoriously nasty-smelling and dirty. It wasn't until Martin Luther's time until Christians figured out the concept of hygiene.
(The Jews had never had a problem with it, and therefore got their asses kicked when the plagues didn't hit them as hard. The Dark Ages were well named.)
9/28/2007 11:13:13 PM
#297300
PhantasyElementz
What about all those heathen Romans, what with the cleanest cities and people in the ancient world? And fast foward to Christian-ruled medieval Europe, where most people lived in their own excrement?
This is why everyone needs to take an unbiased history class.
9/28/2007 11:20:47 PM
#297342
The Jamo
Oh, you mean treating diseases by killing rams and sprinkling their blood around your house seven times? Yeah, that ought to do it!
Dumbass.
9/29/2007 2:52:35 AM
#297351
Foster Disbelief
Katy Anne, that is a special kind of stupid you posess. I can actually hear the screams of protest from your dying brain cells as you composed that post.
Impressive.
9/29/2007 3:20:58 AM
#297368
solomongrundy
As I recall, the Biblical treatment for leprosy was to tell the sufferer they were cursed by God and exile them from society as a containment exercise.
Now we can kill the microbe responsible with Dapsone, Rifampin, Clofazimine, Ethionamide etc etc, limit the physical damage caused and prevent the sufferer being infectious. If not for lingering social taboos patients can live a normal life.
Tell me again, why is the Biblical treatment better?
9/29/2007 4:15:00 AM
#297378
Martin
solomongrundy: becasue teh babble says so.
9/29/2007 5:00:12 AM
#297387
Bassic
So I guess your bible says that the Black Plague never happened?
9/29/2007 6:04:05 AM
#297388
Freboy
The pre-christian world was't secular you fucking moron.
And our overly clean lifestyle is giving us allergies instead. Now get the fuck of the computer.
9/29/2007 6:06:04 AM
#297401
flipper
Why do fundies insist on creating a history that not only patently false, but actually a direct contradiction to the facts? #9 people!!! Pagan Rome had far better hygene and sanitation in the 1st century than Christian Rome a 1000 years later. The heathen Muslims kept far better medical and sanitary practices for a thousand years than mideval Christians. We won't even go into what the non-Christian orientals wrote about the early Christians smell and lack of cleanliness. In short Katy-Anne, you or someone you are a mindless sheep to, made that shit up and didn't even wipe their ass.
9/29/2007 7:23:51 AM
#297404
Ambrielle
How is she going to manage to bring up a child? How?
9/29/2007 7:34:26 AM
#297406
Ambrielle
Ugh, that's not the worst comment from this thread, although this one also belongs in RSTDT:
"This is just another of the many reasons we should take a stand against the invasion of our countries by heathens who often bring diseases into our midst.
Do we really need more ungodly people in our country?" (John81)
9/29/2007 7:38:57 AM
#297409
Doctor Whom
Our advances in medicine owe much to departure from those wonderful health and hygeine principles found in the Bible. Your inerrant holy book never mentions the germ theory of disease and instead tells us to resort to faith healing. Oops, my bad -- the germ theory of disease is "just a theory," isn't it.
9/29/2007 8:01:31 AM
#297417
LabRat
I guess there were no Christians around in 1918. The flu killed more people than the war.
9/29/2007 8:21:16 AM
#297419
Puck
Stop teasing us, Katy-Anne! You couldn't possibly be that ignorant!
[I know, I know.]
9/29/2007 8:27:59 AM
#297481
Jezebel's Evil Sister
Ohh, if only I had lived in the time of Jesus, I would not be suffering the health problems I now have.
- i.e., I'd have died long before I reached what we now call "middle age."
9/29/2007 10:47:27 AM
#297670
And, nevertheless, we live more now than in the Middle Ages. Moreover, at the time, Chinese and Arabic countries were better off than us then.
9/29/2007 3:31:07 PM
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