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originally posted by: candlestick
Which is "If you get sick ,you don't have to go to see doctors "or "The faith is the most important thing to heal you ,not
modern medical."
Applicable area:
China(This one I am sure),
USA (NRM must thank Obamacare a lot),
Japan (Aum Shinrikyo)
...
(Need your help the adding the applicable area)
Usually they are most active in those place with inferior health care system.All religions are about controlling by your fear.In those place without military war,the fear of illness is a good controller.
Of course, Obamacare and pharmaceutical companies "HELPED "a lot for NRM cheating people.
Intense advertising and recruitment activities, dubbed the 'Aum Salvation plan', included claims of curing physical illnesses with health improvement techniques, realizing life goals by improving intelligence and positive thinking, and concentrating on what was important at the expense of leisure. This was to be accomplished by practicing ancient teachings, accurately translated from original Pali sutras (these three were referred to as 'threefold Salvation'). These efforts resulted in Aum becoming one of the fastest-growing religious groups in Japan's history. The religion's practices remained shrouded in secrecy. Initiation rituals often involved the use of hallucinogens, such as '___'. Religious practices often involved extreme ascetic practices claimed to be "yoga". These included everything from renunciants being hung upside down to being given shock therapy.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: candlestick
Yeah there's a sub-culture in the US that believes medical treatment is a hoax to be avoided. There are guys running website businesses and selling books that depend on people believing a prayer and a happy thought will defeat cancer. Although we can look at the statistics for child cancer patients at Mount Sinai Hosptal NYC (p15), the 'cure with prayer' promoters don't keep track. They get to make the big claims without fear of failure and if a few children die they just didn't BELIEVE enough! Their fault!
There's no reason not to have a clean diet and maybe pray or send happy thoughts to loved ones who are ill. Positivity and placebo effects are still not fully understood. When it goes past that and actively instructs people to abandon medical treatment and solely gamble on prayers is when it becomes wrong and nasty.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: candlestick
Yeah there's a sub-culture in the US that believes medical treatment is a hoax to be avoided. There are guys running website businesses and selling books that depend on people believing a prayer and a happy thought will defeat cancer. Although we can look at the statistics for child cancer patients at Mount Sinai Hosptal NYC (p15), the 'cure with prayer' promoters don't keep track. They get to make the big claims without fear of failure and if a few children die they just didn't BELIEVE enough! Their fault!
There's no reason not to have a clean diet and maybe pray or send happy thoughts to loved ones who are ill. Positivity and placebo effects are still not fully understood. When it goes past that and actively instructs people to abandon medical treatment and solely gamble on prayers is when it becomes wrong and nasty.
originally posted by: Wandering Scribe
a reply to: candlestick
New Agers may rely on homeopathy and herbalism instead of scientifically supported medical practices, and they certainly misconstrue old practices and religious beliefs, like meditation, for sure. They aren't the dangerous ones though, because at the end of the day they still depend on medicine of one kind or another, alongside their tea, meditation, and happy thoughts. This makes them hypocritical, not dangerous.
The ones who claim that disease is caused by demonic possession though, are the real danger.
How much$$$ are those organic herb and meditation training?These are all business.
New age people usually said disease is caused by "you did something wrong in your past lives"