Lucky Dr Kent Brantly, the American doctor who has recovered from Ebola, having been given a dose of the experimental antibody serum Zmapp, whizzed home to the US, and given another dose. He is now thanking God for saving his life. Through the medical team and drugs, he admits, but ultimately, it seems, God was in charge. And he chose Brantly, not the other 1,200 mainly west African people who have died horribly, which seems a bit picky.
So it was NOT the experimental treatment created by scientists and administered by trained physicians that saved this man's life?
It was God?
So using that line of "logic," one would assume that God also made Dr. Brantly sick in the first place, and then cured him so that he could be thanked publicly.
It also must mean that God murdered all of those innocent African people after also cursing them with the disease and then refusing to answer their prayers for a cure.
Apparently God is a racist.
You know you would think that a doctor might know better than to say something so ridiculous and superstitious. But apparently you would think wrong.
Brantly works for Samaritan's Purse. Now where have we heard that name before. Is it any wonder he's going to thank God first and then the doctors who cured him. Actually, he should be thanking the ghost of Billy Graham, then God, then the doctors.
ReplyDeleteI hate this kind of cognitive dissonance. A man of science has access to science, gets to use it when many others have no access to it----then is healed by it only to thank sky fairies for his life. Frankly, its an easier way for him to feel better about the people left behind who died. You know---it wasn't the science they had no access to--it was his strong faith.
ReplyDeleteWhat is really horrid is that christianity has done more to
make some countries in continental Africa a cesspool of hate
and stupidity---But obviously, as long as they believe it shouldn't matter that they don't get the good health care and medicines to live.
Sometimes, I hate this place.
How many people have died in Africa because of the church's insistence that using condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS is a sin?
DeleteAnd let's not forget the American evangelical churches' support of anti-gay laws in Uganda and other African countries that have resulted in many people being killed or thrown in prison.
It's bad enough that they do so much damage here in the US, but they have to export the hate all over the world.
That is so true
DeleteYou say, "... whizzed home to the US ..." I suggest "whisked," since whizzing is what happens when I unzip.
ReplyDeleteYou say, "whizzed home to the US" but I'd suggest "whisked," since "whiz" is what happens when I unzip.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of shit I wish I could say OUT LOUD to a few people I know. Not that it would even touch the surface of their emotion laden little brains. Thanks for articulating what I have though so many times . . .
ReplyDeleteI met a creationist doctor last month while I was working in Alaska. As a scientist, I desperately wanted to challenge his views, but, as you can imagine, I felt he was.a bit fragile so I let him be. It was weird and even a little spooky.
ReplyDeleteWant to bet HE doesn't ever let himself worry about the OTHER guy feeling "a bit fragile"? I bet he's the type who swoops down on those kind of people, just to expound on his religion and love a sky fairies.
DeleteYeah, I heard Brantley say it was "a miraculous day" when he was released from the hospital.
ReplyDeleteReally wanted to tell him "That was no miracle, that was pure science that saved your ungrateful ass!"
Science plus sanitary facilities and a wealth of highly-trained personnel. A medical worker in Africa who received the same medicine did not survive due to facility shortcomings.
DeleteGoogle operation trojan horse.
ReplyDeleteread this"
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/aids2.pdf
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DeleteRead about Operation Trojan Horse.
ReplyDeleteScience got us into this mess and science will get us out of this mess..
Lots of $$ and death of useless eaters in the meantime. Not my words (useless eaters) Henry Kissinger's words.
That was one of the most useless, insane, conspiracy-theoriest-wet-dreams, I have ever had the misfortune to read.
DeleteThe US did not fund the Defense Dept with 10 million dollars to develop AIDS and inject Africans with it. Supposedly, according to this made up crap, WHO was in cahoots with the US to inject Africans through Hep E vaccines laced with AIDS.
Whoever actually believes this shit has got to be a brain-dead, conservative, Republican who only watches Fox News and lives on Fw,Fw,Fw emails. Democrats will usually take at least 5 minutes to double check information before posting something to see if it's valid. We don't wear crazy on our sleeves like a badge of honor.
To wit, the 91st congress was during the Nixon administration, yet the article (designed to look like an official House Bill) sputters against "Slick Willie", "Jezabel Hillary" and "Socialist Bill Brady" For christ sake, they even misspelled "Jezebel" They then go into the real reason their pissed, because of a ban on automatic weapons. How can you overcome the government trying to inject you with AIDS if you don't have a garage stockpiled with automatic weapons sheeple?
So, according to the article, the WHO injected 100 million Africans with AIDS in 1977 and 2000 homosexual men in 1978 with Hep E vaccine laced with AIDS. Supposedly, the virus was made in the lab between 1975 - 1979. I guess they finished up this virus early to start infecting people in 1977. Also, it probably doesn't mean anything that one of the earliest recordings of AIDS in Africa was in 1959 and Hep E vaccines in Africa did not begin until the 2000. Honestly, it would be quite a trick to infect 100 MILLION PEOPLE with a AIDS laced vaccine that wasn't even developed until the 1990's!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_E
Facts can be so pesky when you're trying to spread an agenda.
Just posted to show how gullible can be.
DeleteWhy bother treating him? his god would have saved him anyway surely
ReplyDeleteIf God was in charge why did he fly back to the states for medical treatment instead of getting that treatment from his fellow religious freaks?
ReplyDeleteFinally I can say this. I heard Dr. Brantly speak about his "miraculous day" upon his release from the hospital. And it just made my stomach turn. I had already had a not-great feeling about him (gasp...sorry...I know the world thinks he's a saint or something for being a missionary to Africa..egads) from hearing something he'd said at his church prior to going over there. I really have a difficult time listening to Christians spout their Christian-isms about this, that and the other thing. I didn't like him the first time I heard him open his mouth. I didn't like him the next time. And I don't think I'll like him if I'm ever forced to listen to him again.
ReplyDeleteEXCELLENT point in this post. God didn't save Dr. Brantly. Human medicine did. Good ol' human ingenuity. And lots of dedicated human medical workers. THOSE are the ones he should have been thanking for creating a miracle. The medical workers, the money that flew his white behind back to this country in a manner that cannot be afforded to pretty much anyone else over there, this country for the taxes we pay that I'm sure in some small way funded some part of this whole thing.
You go to a foreign country where diseases exist that don't exist here, you take your chances. I'd say LUCKY for him no expenses were spared in bringing him back. LUCKY. NOT, I repeat, NOT a miracle. No water being turned magically into wine here. (Thank the universe my mother does not read this blog or I'd be in humongous trouble right now with her Catholic god.)
Sorry to be so blunt.
I haven't finished my coffee yet.
You know the thing that has always bothered me about this story? It's the "What If... "
ReplyDeleteWhat if Dr. Brantly had been an African American doctor serving in the Peace Corps?
What if he was Jewish? Or Muslim?
Would he have been allowed to return to the U.S. for treatment? Be honest!
Can you even imagine the hue and cry that would have spewed from Fox News?
Obama is allowing Ebola into the U.S.!
He's gonna kill us all!
First the diseased Central American children, now THIS?!
It's not very hard to imagine, is it?
Actually there were more than a few over at the pond that were upset he was flown back to the US. If he wasn't christian, it would have been a uproar.
DeleteYeah, well, it's true Gryph...
ReplyDeleteGOD made OUR school's football team beat the other school's team because OUR guys prayed harder/better!
...so there.
Yeah. I saw his news conference. For all his professed humility for saving his life, his arrogance in his faith came through loud and clear. It would have gone down better if he came out and demanded that those suffering in Africa get the same help he got. And you know Bill Maher was rolling his eyes over this nimrod.
ReplyDeleteM from MD
I agree. His press conference on his release from the hospital failed to thank the system and personnel who truly saved his life. His call out to God just turned me off. He came across to me as one who feels totally "special" because of his faith. He should have kept his mouth shut like his co-worker who was also brought to the US for treatment and survived - and then quietly left the hospital to join her family. She has far more class and is far more humble than the "great white doctor"!
ReplyDeleteIs it any wonder that this guy, I can't call him Dr., who works for Samaritans Purse is an arrogant, fanatic Dominionist lunatic comes across as the jerk he is?
ReplyDeleteYes, Thank God I'm a missionary sent by my church to cure an awful disease by giving them a dose of "Bringing Jesus and Bibles to Africa". The woman our tax dollars went to "saving", at least had the sense to not make a comment involving religion, thanking the people who helped get her home and well. So when is Franklin writing the tax free check to reimburse "Big Governmet" for saving two white proselytizers? How many doses could that money have been used to save the people who died without it?
ReplyDeleteTax Churches on their income and property value, just like every other business.