Moyers: ‘We can’t count on divine intervention’
In his latest essay Friday evening, PBS host Bill Moyers expressed concern over the growing rate of children not being vaccinating due to their parents receiving exemptions from states for religious purposes.
Inspired by what he witnessed in the movie Contagion, Moyers mentioned a variety of statistics to his audience on the sudden increase in children not vaccinated and provided his frank assessment on how harmful those choices are to society.
When and if a contagion strikes, we cant count on divine intervention to spare us, he said. Thats when you want a darn good scientist in a research lab. Well need all the help we can get from knowledge and her offspring.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/25/moyers-we-cant-count-on-divine-intervention/
dimbear
(6,271 posts)It's in the Book.
calimary
(81,220 posts)I keep imagining the day when they've brought on the Armageddon they've always dreamed of - and the survivors among them look around, panicked and distraught, when all they have is a steaming, roasted planet with barely-breathable air, no food, no potable water, no trees, no animals, no shelter, no fertile soil without toxins or chemicals or radioactivity, no medicine, no doctors or hospitals, no nothing, and certainly, no Messiah coming with His celestial magic wand to clean up the mess and make it all suddenly magically better. By then it'll be too late to say "I told you so," because most of us who'd say that to these people will probably be dead. Hopefully there'll be somebody left at that time to turn to them and say "happy now?"
These ignorant pre-Cambrian-mentality assholes are so full of "God will provide" - when it doesn't even remotely occur to them that God already DID provide!!! We have this beautiful planet (the ONLY one that sustains life as we know it) and our own innate inquisitiveness that motivates many of us to strive to learn more and discover and increase our knowledge and figure out our own solutions to our problems. We have each other and creatures and vegetation and our physical strength and endurance, and the ability to learn and explore and be curious about the world around us, and grow food and build things and tame animals - SO THAT WE COULD PROVIDE FOR OURSELVES!!!
Seems simple, doesn't it? Except when you're dealing with lizard-brained latter-day Puritans, I guess.
They're like a spreading disease. A rash on humanity that seems incurable at the moment. And because they think God is on their side, expect them NEVER to give up. They think they have some Divinely-decreed crusade to carry out. They are a curse on the rest of us, and I fear too many of them are unreachable and unredeemable.