Re: Diabetes a "Test of Faith" or a "Spiritual attack"
(in ! Fun With Fundies !)
Doc,
<Spare the rod, spoil the child>
Perhaps you're referring to the Old Testament:
"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24).
<Child abuse is VERY Christian, it seems.>
Y...
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discussion post on Sun, May 11, 2008 - 9:43 PM
Re: Diabetes a "Test of Faith" or a "Spiritual attack"
(in ! Fun With Fundies !)
Bill,
<They are frightening because I was raised by two crazy people>
That your parents were crazy doesn't make all parents crazy. Sane people make errors in judgment. I have expressed my opinion, more that once, that the Neumann household w...
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discussion post on Sun, May 11, 2008 - 9:32 PM
Re: Diabetes a "Test of Faith" or a "Spiritual attack"
(in ! Fun With Fundies !)
Bill,
<No, but the original meaning of the word implies magick.>
Adastra stated:
<This is why I get "nit-picky" about the exact words at times, because unless we understand what the words meant to the people who originally wrote them down ...
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discussion post on Sun, May 11, 2008 - 6:54 PM
Re: Diabetes a "Test of Faith" or a "Spiritual attack"
(in ! Fun With Fundies !)
Bill,
<modern Pharmacists are engaged in taking pills out of one container and putting them in another. There is nothing magical about that.>
You initially (correctly) quoted me concerning pharmaceuticals and poison. I did not claim transferr...
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discussion post on Sat, May 10, 2008 - 6:12 PM
Re: What's the harm?
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Bill,
<Would these death figures drop if we can arrange proper budgets and better priorities in our hospitals?>
Also from the same article:
- "If we could focus our efforts on just four key areas - failure to rescue, bed sores, postoperative ...
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discussion post on Sat, May 10, 2008 - 3:11 PM