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http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/medical/doctor_gift.htm

 

This is sad in many senses. I came up with this after I accidentally stumbled on the origin word of pharmacy, pharmakeia, which means apparently, medicine, poison, or sorcery. This is another sort of a conspiracy theory. I know faith healing does not work in any visible way. However, it is compelling to think the origin of the word pharmacy means poison or sorceries.

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I work in a pharmacy. I learned this curious fact in my studies. However, we also learned that the roots of modern pharmacy practice stems from pharmacopoeia. This refers to the process of compounding various substances to make drugs and/or treat symptoms. One must consider that in ancient times, the practice of pharmacopoeia was very much tied to the natural and spiritual realms. Many of the pharmacies (called apothecaries back in olden times) were located in temples to the god Ascelpius, at least during Roman times.

 

The medicines were called remedies and were made from things found in nature. There were techniques and procedures involved with making remedies just as there are techniques and procedures involved with making medicines today. The difference is that most of us who work in the pharmaceutical field don't believe that a god overlooks all that we do. The success of medications has nothing to do with God, gods, Jesus, whatever. It is due to science.

 

Such a shame that Christianity closed the eyes of masses so long ago and taught believers to fear the knowledge of remedies, hygiene and science as a whole. We became ignorant and viewed all such knowledge as evil, dark arts, sorcery. Why? Because the knowledge of such things was associated with the old Pagan gods! The practice of remedies and healing became the providence of "witches", who were endlessly persecuted throughout the history of the west.

 

Today, some Christians warmly embrace the "witches" of today, preferring the warm fuzzies of faith in what the Lord provides over the knowledge of modern science, medicine and pharmacy. *shakes head*

 

Logic doesn't always win, it seems.

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The link made me very angry.  My wife is alive today because of a surgeon's skill and the use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.  And this idiot would have had her rather march to a crassly stupid but "faithful" death.

 

Sometimes, just sometimes, I want to strangle these fools.

 

I also wonder if the experience of suffering such an illness would cause the author to temper faith with a little hypocritical good sense.

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