Wow. There’s some serious anti-science and anti-human progress in this clip.
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Preacher Ridicules Doctors and Breast Exams
April 9, 2010 By 79 Comments
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Well, this ought to get rid of a lot of idiots many of whom will surely qualify for a Darwin Award.
I thought I might watch this and have a chuckle, but I honestly feel like I’m going to cry. Telling people not to go to the doctor if they find a lump in their breast is a slap in the face to the strong, courageous women I know who have battled breast cancer and the family members that have died because they didn’t find it soon enough. Knowlege of your illness doesn’t make you sick, and ignorance will not make you well.
How vile. Maybe even ‘evil.’ I couldn’t watch the whole thing.
My grandmother is having her first chemo treatment for breast cancer right now – and because she is, maybe I and the rest of my family will get to spend a few more years with her.
I’m less concerned about the crap spewing from his mouth and more concerned about the poor idiots in his “church” who are buying that drivel. The saddest thing is that there are women and men there who really believe that if they go to the doctor and “find a lump,” that it is their “lack of faith” that brought their illness on. Nevertheless, that “preacher” is a pathetic sack of waste.
I’ll bet if his “sack” swells up he’ll spend his parishioners’ money quickly at the best doctor they can pay for; they, meanwhile, will suffer in the “GLORY”
Remember boys and girls, the louder you yell and the more hysterical you act, the more RIGHT you are!
How old is this video?
I hope he died of an easily treatable cancer. Really.
One of my favorite writers in the whole world, and a close friend of people in my current circle of friends, died of one of the most treatable forms of cancer because he tried the ‘naturopathic’ remedies of diet and cleansing.
Which makes me want to punch in the face everyone who calls this sort of flim flam ‘harmless’.
Tragedy. Absolute tragedy. Men particularly are terrible for not getting cancers properly treated; recovery from testicular and prostate cancers in the UK are around 96% – and the only thing that stops them being 100% are men who don’t go to their actual DOCTOR for help.
My writing partner’s dad just got diagnosed with prostate cancer. I sincerely hope he is one of the 96%. Of course, he is going to the doctor and getting it treated.
I wonder how many men get prostate cancer because they don’t want to be touched “there”, out of sheer machismo.
I would be one.
Business idea: Hot Girls Prostate Prevention Service
Win!
Sign me up.
Win!!!
Testicular cancer I think would be appropriate. Hopefully it will be (or was) slow and painful.
That was fast yahweh!
Funnily enough I had to go for an ultrasound a few weeks ago to rule out testicular cancer. Frankly, if I (a man with a fair helping of body piercings) can get my tackle out for a radiologist, nobody else has any excuse frankly.
You pierced your junk?
I can’t imagine doing that.
Six times. Five of them done myself.
What are you, Mayan?
Plus the nips. Got them done too.
Uh. Uhm. WHAT? Why the frak would you pierce your own junk?
Because I have a far better knowledge of anatomy than the average piercer, my aseptic technique is better and because it’s a lot cheaper.
That’s pretty cool, Cust. I always wanted a few piercings. Is the maintenance troublesome? As in, keeping the area clean, etc.?
No, it’s pretty easy. They emit lymph fluid for a few weeks so you have to soak them in sat water for a couple of minutes a day, but once they’re healed you just wash them in the shower like anybody else. You do have to sit down to pee and clean yourself more thoroughly afterward, though – but I’ve never seen that as a hindrance or a downside, it just means I’m more hygienic that I used to be!
Well, I’m a girl, so I don’t think sitting down to pee is a big change ;p
Interesting, though.
No, I realised that after I wrote it :D From a woman’s perspective I would think that getting a clitoral or clitoral hood piercing would make very little difference personal hygiene wise. They also heal very quickly because it’s such a vascular area.
:D
I suppose so. Fun stuff.
Though, I’d probably start with something less hardcore – like ears and lip and what not. Possibly the nipples…
Nip piercings rule, but I’ll warn you in advance: They hurt! Like, more than a Prince Albert pain. Totally worth it, though. Ask Daniel for my email address and prod me, I’ll forward you some links to a few web communities which have loads of advice from piercers and pierced.
Hope you never need an MRI
Titanium is not magnetic.
So… why do your wang piercings make going to the doctor harder for you than for others? I mean, it’s not like you Vagazzled (or whatever that is called). In fact, most people I know who have had more interesting things pierced enjoy showing them off (not always to my dismay)!
Now the Airport! That’s a place I can see you having more trouble. =P
BEEP BEEEEP
Mr. Custador, please step over here.
You’re forgetting I was once a Customs officer :-)
you’ve been everything dude.
Nah, not really. I was Customs from 2001, the an intelligence officer from 2004 to 2006, then a tax inspector until 2008 and then I became a student nurse. I was also a barman and a doorman while I was at university the first time.
Testicular, if possible.
Painfully, pathetically ignorant. I couldn’t watch it all.
this is the evil bastard’s current email.
bishipmbjefferson@yahoo.com
Hmm… He seems to have misspelled “bishop” in his email address… More proof of his stupidity, perhaps?
He wants to be ‘hip’ ? Oh hale.
In 2008 I was diagnosed with early Prostate Cancer. After a series of Radiotherapy I’m OK. Don’t be wimps, guys, get regular check-ups. Yeah, it’s uncomfortable and embarrassing, but the alternative is very unpleasant!
The only reason I haven’t gotten a check up, even though I think I should, is because I don’t have insurance. Screw being embarrassed, I want to live, but there’s nothing, to the best of my knowledge, I can do about it.
Check Gray’s Anatomy out of the library and check yourself?
I’m not one for self diagnosis; I’m not an expert.
Ross and Wilson’s Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness is your friend. It describes what your anatomy is like healthy and what it’s like unhealthy.
Obsessive worrying is indeed a terrible thing. Ignoring basic preventative medicine and sound medical practice isn’t so smart. I can’t object if Mr. Jefferson wants to flush his own health down the toilet. Preaching his dangerously ignorant misinformation to others is arrogant and morally wrong. Maybe the adults who sit and spin on his every word deserve what they get, but what about the children and other innocents who will be victimized because their parents and caretakers are faithful followers of the bull?
So when I don’t look for cancer, I don’t have it, but when I do look, I get cancer.
I guess that is also why when I look for evidence for evolution, I find it, but when I don’t look, it doesn’t exist!
Also, this somewhat reminds me of Schrodinger’s cancer.
I don’t get checkups, I don’t get mams or paps, and I never will. I’m aware of the risks and I’m willing to take them. It’s not a religious thing–I’m atheist–but I just have this big phobia about being touched and an even bigger one about IV’s and I have no interest in changing that. I do get really really REALLY irritated at the bullying harrassment and health-evangelizing I get, mostly from total strangers, to do so against my will, as if I’ve never heard it all before. It’s my own damn choice, and dammit it’s an informed choice at least–not a choice made by “what does the Wholly Babble/my pastor/my priest have to say?” or “will it make Jesus happy?”
But I have never and would never discourage another person from doing so. I would not discourage them if they were planning it or even just considering it. That is a choice only an individual can make. And to say something to circumvent even the consideration–using such low tactics as “Jesus would cry if you went to the doctor”–is also something I would never do. That is particularly disgusting, especially since people who stoop to such lows would rush to the best care money could buy if they personally had any health problems. It’s my decision, and if I want to take the risk and possibly die, I will and I will regret nothing. Same goes for you–the only person authorized to make decisions about your health priorities is you. You do what you feel you need to based on what is important to you. It’s your life, dammit.
This is just disgusting. Didn’t Mother Teresa pull similar crap, what with sub-standard medical care at her facilities but state-of-the-art care for herself when she fell ill?
You have a phobia and no interest in overcoming it. That’s why people think you should see a doctor. If you are so in love with your phobia, I can see why you’d get defensive when people pressure you to go get harmless tests to make sure you’re ok. What you’ve done is rationalize that you are better off having a detrimental case of anxiety about doctors and dying rather than clear up a psychological issue (that is also medical) in order to extend your life. “Knowing the risks” is not really an answer here. Sure it is your body, but I don’t think having a big phobia, and being ok with it, is as good an excuse as you think it is not to see a doctor. That’s pretty much getting in the way of yourself for an irrational reason, a lot like the religious folks in the video.
Sub-standard medical care? Umm…mother teresa made places where people went to die. Literally. They got 0 care there, it was just somewhere to die. And, sadly, this somehow made mother teresa a saint.
But you have to admit, that is sub-standard ;) . (Unless, I suppose, standard medical care there is also zero (which in many of the places it practically was).)
Well, you got me there.
What do Mammograms and Pap smears have to do with IV’s?
I think she was saying she doesn’t really do the doctor at all. As in, anything that is obgyn related as well as anything that might involved a needle.
His sentiment is to be applauded even if his message is misguided.
Science has got humanity nowhere. After all we are on the verge of spazzing ourselves to death with some major-huge Hardron Collider.
So tell me, what orifice do you put your mouth on in order to talk out of your ass so well?
Or am I reacting too quickly, and you were merely joking?
Go to his web site. He is not joking.
Either this is a troll impersonating Don Kroner, or much more likely, it is Don Kroner just spreading his hate. His blog is so repulsive I could not look at it for more than five minutes before I hit Ctrl + W. But I did get this gem: “Where has secular morality got us in the last 100 years? We’re still killing innocent children for goodness sake!”
The irony of this almost overwhelms my nausea, as it is:
1. “Secular” science that has saved so many children’s lives (compare infant mortality rates from 1910 to now), and
2. “Christian” morals that have in a large number of cases led to parents refusing treatment for sick children that would have saved their lives.
Worst of all, he posts this in response to a relatively well thought-out (although very brief) explanation of secular morality.
I must say that I like that the picture he has on his website of a bible in a toilet is something I can agree with.
I’ve absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
As usual you aren’t allowed to have an opinion on this blog unless it complies with the Atheist corporate line.
I like this blog but I honestly think Daniel should just post a quick caption below each post saying ‘HERE’S WHAT YOU HAVE TO THINK – IF YOU DON’T THINK THIS WAY THEN DON’T COMMENT’
I haven’t slept all night and feel like crying. I’ve got awful gas that smells like molten plastic.
No Don, you’re allowed to have any opinion you like. You’re even allowed to voice it if you want. In accepting that, though, you also have to accept that everybody else is allowed to argue with you and judge you by your words – which, since you are such an ignorant, hate-filled PoS, is very easy for us to do.
I am not a PoS. I am a human being.
I don’t know why you hate me so much. I get the impression that you want to push me down a flight of stairs and to pummel me to death with your bare hands.
I plead with you. I am not a cross dresser.
If this is a joke, I tip my hair to you.
If not, what exactly do you think brought about that device you’re typing on?
It’s a Jesus box, powered by the Holy Spirit.
Very funny.
The keyboard is a useless device. Mine is anyway. All of my keys are broken. Every night I just get really fucking depressed at the world and start smashing my head off of it and the buttons pop off like popcorn.
I’d go to Walmart but I can’t find my clothes :(
DId Don say hardon collider?
Yes, he did. Don is such a dick that he thinks that the Large Hadron Collider at Cern is going to kill us all. Or at least, that’s probably what his preacher has programmed him to believe; damned progress keeps on disproving the BuyBull ™ so it must be resisted!
Stop stereotyping me.
I hate the world more and more with each day. I’m losing my mind and am contemplating going to Banana Republic to buy a dress.
I want to be new.
LOL! Poe.
Don: “I want to be new.”
Then go get yourself born again.
dude i read your blog ,and i think you have mental health issues,i’m not trying to insult ,i just think you should talk to some one. preferably some one with an M.D
I don’t care about worldly qualifications! The only Doctor that can help me is Christ Jesus. Through Him and Him alone my soul will always be in good shape :)
Even if my mind isn’t. Keep hearing trumpets but I’m playing a trombone.
You are hilarious and I love you :)
I’m being *christian* and giving you my lahv, darling :)
it was hardron colider.
A classsic moron. Who ever said that religion was harmless stuff and should be left alone, needs to think again.