Faith Healer Convinces Followers To Never Vaccinate, Now Church The Center Of Measles Outbreak

[CatWoman]

The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, run by Kenneth Copeland Ministries, has long been a strong anti-vaccination stronghold. Now, it is the epicenter of a major outbreak of Measles in the United States.

There is no irony here, just basic science and common sense. If you fail to put up defense against contagious disease, you will find yourself unable to defend yourself when the inevitable happens.

When the measles were definitively tied to the church, well, the Dallas Observer put it best:

The sermon was awkward, to say the least. Pearsons is the eldest daughter of megapastor Kenneth Copeland, and her church is one of the cornerstones of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, his sprawling evangelical empire. He’s far from the most vocal proponent of the discredited theory that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine causes autism, but, between his advocacy of faith healing and his promotion of the vaccine-autism link on his online talk show, he’s not exactly urging his flock to get their recommended shots.

As of four days ago, a total of 15 cases of Measles had been identified, with the youngest being only 4 months old. How many more of their fellow parishioners will come down with the easily communicable disease before it has finished its spread?

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/24/faith-healer-convinces-followers-to-never-vaccinate-now-church-the-center-of-measles-outbreak/#ixzz2d2DeI500

[Supersedeas]

1. ya can't cure the crazy

[dem in texas]

2. It's up to 20 cases in the DFW area

Sure to be more since school just started. So far it's among the children at the church who mostly home schooled. Talk about stupid. I am old enough to have had the red measles and I was so sick the doctor came to our house. I had classmates who suffered heart damage, hearing damage and eye damage from the red measles. When the vaccine became available I made sure my kids got their shots. Red measles is a terrible disease. The worst part is that these people who are against immunization listen to an ex-Playboy bunny and think she has the right answers - unbelievable.

[Recursion]

3. Seems like a problem that solves itself, given enough time

Sorry, gallows humor.

[Myrina]

9. True dat.

Also serves to lessen the RWNJ voting pool.

[Quantess]

10. Nah not really, since most people don't die from measles.

They just become horribly ill with often permanent damage to their eyesight, hearing, skin, etc.

[longship]

4. The TX health department undoubtedly read them the riot act.

Apparently many of the effected patients were church attendees, so the church was the focus of the outbreak.

I imagine that the telephone call from the health department was much more difficult than the sermon. In these matters the health department would have fairly extraordinary power to do what is needed to stop a prospective much more serious outbreak. In such matters a quarantine might have been in the mix, or at least might have been threatened.

All for organized ignorance.

Kenneth Copeland sucks.

[Iggo]

5. Fucking dumbshits.

[bhikkhu]

6. Worth a reminder - the average human lifespan was 40 years or so, as long as humans have existed

...up until vaccines came along. We get used to having it easy and imagine we're invulnerable now, but faith healing and prayer (to whatever to god of the moment) never budged the death rate one tiny bit.

[TexasTowelie]

7. The count is up to 21 cases.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/texas/article/Texas-megachurch-linked-to-21-measles-cases-4764666.php

[malaise]

8. Basic science or basic anti-science?

Hope Copeland has measles too.