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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Whites Coats, White Robes

Christianity and Western (allopathic) medicine are deeply appealing for the same reason: They promise simple solutions. Accept Christ as your savior and you will be helped through this life and accepted into heaven. Take this bread and eat it, for this is my Body...Take this pill and eat it so that you will be cured, perhaps of all your problems, ever. The cleanness of these systems is attractive; it whispers freedom from curses and goblins and reincarnation, headaches and sorrow and injuries. It calls like a crisp bed inviting rest. I fear, however, that I am messy, and that, to live and heal, I need to sing praises to multiple gods for multiple lifetimes, and to boil up huge pots of strange-smelling herbs.

4 Comments:

Blogger kStyle said...

I agree that the messiness of Western meds is just hidden...and I would say the same is true for Christianity, though after 2005 years of Christian history, we can see more of it.

11:09 AM  
Blogger kStyle said...

I tried to make your extra comments go away, but the delete fxn ddn't work. Oh well. There are worse things. :)

Point taken about Christianity and our medicine not being that simple, but I stand by my earlier post, which deeply relates to some personal issues I've been grappling with the last few weeks. I suppose the thing is really this: the way Christianity and medicine are presented allows--one might say encourages--the user to give control of body and soul to doctors or Jesus/clergy.

10:12 AM  
Blogger kStyle said...

yes, it's about the marketing, but it's also about "we know what's best for you and you don't know your own self-interest; just let us do the work for you". But it doesn't really work that way, does it.

11:58 PM  
Blogger kStyle said...

extra comments all gone!

11:59 PM  

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