Jesus could've actually saved lives by telling people to wash their hands. Instead, we have this totally unnecessary blood sacrifice thing.

I was going to say religion is still necessary to control some people because there are some straight up sociopaths that only behave because of the fear of hell, but the fact that they totally believe they're one of Jesus' special little buddies makes me think that makes the issue even worse.

This is also true when Epsteiner auctions off a 13 year old

Given that that were true; their god also created the disease and is responsible for all the suffering. Their god is still at a net negative.

Too many people gloss over the fact how insane it is that some people genuinely believe non-believers burn forever in a magic post death torture world. Like how can someone think that while talking with someone, and be like, aw sucks for them, glad I submit to this ancient chain email creepypasta.

It still baffles me when I realize someone thinks like that.

[feeling grateful for the gate at my housing complex.]

That's what I don't understand about creationists. If you believe god made everything, what's wrong with believing God used evolution to do it? If the answer is "take the Bible literally", well that doesn't work because of all the shit in the Bible that they choose to ignore.

The premise of religion is designed to be bullet proof: god requires faith, don't test god. It's required that you have to believe it without proof. Why add things that are so far out there like "the devil/god made fossils as a trick to test your faith"?

Given the title of the blank list is "Diseases eradicated by prayer" this list gets a lot funnier.

You mean to say that the only thing keeping you from r*ping children is fear of God?

Ethics exist independently of any deities even if they did exist.

If ethics didn't exist separately, and God is actually the source of good, then we would have a lot of logical paradoxes to solve.

For instance, let's assume God is who defines goodness and educates us on it, and goodness does not exist without God.

Thus, we recognize we don't have inherent ability to define what's good or bad. But that also means we can't prove God is good, because we already recognized only God can define what's good.

I might have butchered the logical fallacy a bit, logic is hard, but I remember it roughly being stated this way.

The meme is older than covid 19

It is very much not eradicated.

Neither is measles.

I've seen it around Africa. Usually related to where there's a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses. It dovetails well with scattered cultural prohibitions on anything to do with messing with the blood. No blood donations, no transfusions. Likely related to decades of HIV/AIDS concerns.

Edit: it's also why a lot of polio vaccines are oral in Africa. Less stigma.