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jxj24 t1_jd8xcwy wrote

There is nothing so stupid, or so easily, laughably disprovable that someone a distressingly large group of people won't believe it.

And act upon it.

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Unsd t1_jdayfej wrote

This is the scary part. This just emboldens all the assholes that won't participate in modern medicine, even if it means letting their kid die.

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FlattenInnerTube t1_jdcbci8 wrote

Thins the herd.

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AnimusCorpus t1_jddp8az wrote

This is literal malthusianism. Disgusting.

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GetlostMaps t1_jddugva wrote

That's not how I read Malthus at all. Nothing about religious stupidity in it. He was super-religious himself and literally a priest or something. Maybe you need to expand your library so you have more suitable adjectives.

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AnimusCorpus t1_jddvint wrote

"Thinning the herd of dumb people" is literally something he advocated for.

Malthus inspired eugenic programmes.

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GetlostMaps t1_jddwhzi wrote

No he did not. Sounds like you read a one paragraph summary and not the source material. Open a book. He was more about moral restraint and not having children until you could afford them, with nothing about people killing themselves by being stupid. The guy was probably a racist, was against birth control, and certainly didn't foresee mechanized farming, but there are small nuggets of gold in his shit, and you not even reading it to critically assess it to find them, then making up things he didn't say does you no favors. He was way off base on a lot of things, probably bigoted, oversimplistic and unrealistic, but not everything he said was ridiculous, and he didn't say what you're ascribing to him at all. The 3rd grade poster assignment you got your information from was inadequate. Do some more reading.

Jesus inspired numerous genocides. You don't seem to understand your own point.

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handsforhooks44 t1_jdchdih wrote

They're tacking onto their story that a medical doctor who attends the church confirmed the existence of regrown toes. The doctor is married to one of the women who prayed for the lady. I don't understand why they're trying an appeal to authority. People who believe bullshit like this are usually skeptical of science at best and conspiracy theorists at worst, so how much would a medical doctor's attestation help their case?

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