it gets better is a promise – not just a project
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Once again, religion poisons everything – the lack of quality public education means that people do not understand enough to have a competent opinion about the the news events of the day.
Worse, given the digital disposable instant messaging flash crowd lack of care and attention and no attention span whatsoever, people don’t take the time to consider their words or what they are promoting to the world.
They do not understand, they just promote what suits their understanding and worldview without ever examining or verifying or even considering that they might be wrong.
Seriously, I was born in the wrong century or maybe just on the wrong planet.
Religion is an opinion.
Naturalism is an understanding of history, biology and other sciences as well as understanding people and many areas of educational study.
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one.
But when you study and educate yourself or have work experience in a specific field, you become a Subject Matter Expert – and your opinion is not a guess or something that is emotionally satisifying or comforting – often it is recognizing that there is nothing comforting in the understanding of the subject matter.
a working professional expert has studied and worked in the subject area.
this is why TV weather people – who are television performers and not scientists or even subject matter experts – do not understand that weather is a local condition while Climate is a global trending over mass regions.
uneducated opinion is not as valid or meaningful or significant as actual education and knowledge.
it is not enough to say “I am religious and that’s all I need to understand”
because religion is one small part of the human experience and it’s only because religion is a means by which wealth is concentrated in the hand of a few powerful people that religion has interesected with history, literature, arts and all aspect of human life.
because we give it that power and money and attention for all the wrong reasons.
understanding history is to understand that religion is not enlightment or the betterment of the masses.
religion is oppressive and is spread by the word or the sword.
it is intolerant to new ideas and people who are not in compliance.
religion is in the truest and most clinical sense of the words, mentally unhealthy and delusional. divorced from reality, logic, reason and the natural world.
religion is the source of evil and cruelty – because it causes harm to people who are most vulnerable and favors those who have power and wealth.
Occupy your mind and purge the poison that is organized religion.
even the moderates, you too, because you are just cherry picking the other way
and failing to keep the extremists – which are the only true believers of your faith – in check and their numbers and social impact to a minimum.
don’t be intellectually dishonest on top of everything else.
because the truth and reality is the best sanitizer.
witch hunts
spanish inquistion
crusades 1.0 and crusades 2.0 (war on terror)
oppression of civil rights from women voting, slavery, civil right, gay rights
bullying from the pulpit
Vatican Sex Crimes
Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, Jericho School for the Deaf, Mount Cashel Orphage
catholic and religious hospitals refusing abortions or post rape contraceptives
Obsessions with sexual molesting of boys while ignoring that girls are molested in a 7 to 1 ratio – and that most children are molested by a family member or friend – not strangers.
anytime religiously powerful people are put in charge of vulnerable people
they are abused physically mentally and sexually.
if Jesus was real, the earth would be flooded with his tears
what makes anyone think that your god is going to save you and return the earth to the original Garden of Eden factory settings after the obscene carbon footprint of modern industrialized western nations and exploitation of nations not powerful enough to have environmental, labour rights or basic human rights in place?
so basically, this woman doctor just raped a rape victim a second time.
The duty of care and obligation is to the woman as SHE IS THE PATIENT BEING DEALT WITH and in need of your complete attention, compassion and medical expertise.
Not your judgement or your religious beliefs – Physician get the fuck over yourself and find another job where you have no responsibility for vulnerable people because YOU SUCK AT IT.
A widely used modern version of the traditional oath was penned in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna, former Principal of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University:[8]
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.I will not be ashamed to say “I know not”, nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, be respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.