@MarthaD80784116@megbasham@neoavatara This is not factually accurate. Vatican 2 only stated that Muslims profess their faith in Abraham and take pleasure in linking themselves to him. All it did was encourage dialogue to facilitate spreading the gospel.
All medications have risks, side effects and benefits.
You assess them based on the evidence-base, clinical presentation, personal history, assessment and patient and family preference.
You don't include ideological or political opinions.
It's called medicine, it's called health care.
I’ve spent real time investigating other faiths. Catholicism, evangelical Christianity, Judaism, Islam, even Buddhism. I’ve studied the Bible closely, read the Qur’an, explored the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita, and other religious writings with an open mind and honest intent.
What I kept coming back to is this: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only place where the doctrine, covenants, priesthood authority, and lived experience all line up for me. It does not just teach me about Christ. It binds me to Him through covenants, gives structure to repentance and grace, and answers the deepest questions I actually live with.
That conclusion did not come from tradition or comfort. It came from study, prayer, and years of testing what truly brings light, consistency, and change into my life.
“Seeking God is not good enough, you have to do it on my terms.”
The idiocy of thinking you can know the character and will of God and how he will deal with a man upon his Earthly death.
@ScottAdamsSays , the Catholics are praying for you.
Scott is closer, but he still thinks of Christianity as hedging one’s bets, à la Pascal’s wager. But the thief on the cross did not say, “I’ll go with it as a just-in-case option.” He believed and called Christ Lord. Re-doubling my prayers for Scott.
@Truth_matters20 As a former Catholic, we were always told NOT to read the Bible by our church. They would offer to send a priest to our home to "interpret" the Bible for us. Well, obviously, that didn't work. @JackPosobiec
Remember the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation? Remember when he fell to worship the feet of the angel revealing the apocalypse, but the angel rebuked him, saying, "Worship God!"
Yea me too.
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - Dr. Hendricks in Galt’s Gulch (Part III, Chapter I).
“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything — except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards — never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind — yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it — and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
h/t @ProfUnfiltered
No sir.
You are a paramedic.
Your job is to stabilize and transport patients.
You do not have the training to discuss virology, cancer or vaccines
You'll need YEARS more training before that becomes a reality.
Leave science and medicine to the professionals...