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[paien8]

Why or why not?

For example:

"Syphilitics were condemned from pulpits and from chairs in university medical schools. John Calvin (1509-1564) announced that "God has raised up new diseases against debauchery"; medical authorities willingly agreed. The greatest English surgeon of the sixteenth century, William Clowes (1540-1604), who counted Queen Elizabeth among his patients, announced to his colleagues and patients that syphilis was "loathsome and odious, yea troublesome and dangerous, a notable testimony of the just wrath of God." A century later, a French physician, M. Flamand, summed up this point of view concisely by announcing that venereal diseases were "the just rewards of unbridled lust." Disease commonly invited theological speculation, but in the case of syphilis people felt that little speculation was necessary. Just as fornication opened the door to the pox, so the pox opened the door to chastisement and blame..."

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/014606.html


"Syphilis is easy to cure in its early stages. A single intramuscular injection of penicillin, an antibiotic, will cure a person who has had syphilis for less than a year. Additional doses are needed to treat someone who has had syphilis for longer than a year. For people who are allergic to penicillin, other antibiotics are available to treat syphilis..."

http://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/STDFact-Syphilis.htm#cure

[maeadam24]

superstition and fantasy. religious people are a bunch of uneducated idiots

[macdoughall90]

i think that people should pay for whatever level of care they care to invest in

and they can choose to pay prior to or after the wrath hits

their choice

and i support charity care, such as the shriners hospitals, etc

i do not support the idea of a gun being held to my head while i am being robbed

by a government that likes drug addicts better than me

i don't care that they don't like me, they jjust ought not be allowed for it to make any difference

same way with judges

[juanito]

God punishes those he loves for their mistakes. However, He also offers a way out of circumstances. He makes ways for things to be undone. So no, I do not oppose the advances of modern medicine.

[chatima]

Interesting.. since your kind is pushing for a health care system which will reduce the availability of advanced medical technology to Americans..

You know.. like every other government run health care system has.

[garroway]

Leprosy is also easy to cure these days. Evidently AIDS is spread through butt sex. Couldn't it be God's way of saying, "Hey knock it off"?I believe in God and science, they do mix.

[cranleigh69]

You seem unusually interested in syphilis. This would not have happened to you if you had stayed away from those skanky liberal women.

[balfour]

You seem unusually interested in syphilis. This would not have happened to you if you had stayed away from those skanky liberal women.

By your question I know you will never understand this comment, but God does not like evil and sin. I do believe God punishes us for sin in our lives. I am not against people being cured because of their choices.

[wetherly40]

I'm only worried about the wrath of Zod