Bullshit. I pick stuff up off the floor and eat it all the time. I never wash my hands before eating, and off hand I can't think of anyone I know who does. In almost 67 years I've had few health problems, and I believe none that have been the result of ingesting a germ when my immunity has been strong. Someone in need of surgery has compromised health, and thus is more vulnerable to pathogens. (Hand washing surgeons were persecuted? Interesting. How so? If caught running their hands under water prior to operating they were drawn and quartered? When and where did this unenlightened persecution take place?)MrPeabody wrote:Nice Try. But even children today know you should wash your hands before you eat. But apparently you and Jesus don't. Jesus could have saved millions of lives over a course of a thousand plus years if he had just reconfirmed what the sages back then apparently already knew. The dumbass comments he made instead didn't do anyone any good. Also, this was used to persecute the first surgeons who decided it was a good idea to wash their hands before surgery.gsjackson wrote:And a god would also know that people are exposed to millions of germs over a lifetime, and that the key to not getting sick is to be an uncongenial host for them, with a well-tuned immune system. With that you can take in all the germs you want and render them harmless. The God I believe in gave man everything he needs for optimal health in nature -- sunshine, water, oxygen, plant-derived food, etc. If that's the case, do you really think a little germ can destroy health that's well tended to?MrPeabody wrote:HouseMD wrote:But what of the literally millions of things not mentioned in the Bible? The Bible is the teachings of God, not an encyclopedia of all knowledge. It didn't teach man to make pottery or shelter, how to sail or use a compass, how to make fire from light, or any number of other things. And much of the Bible is allegory, something to which the vast majority of Biblical and Rabbinical scholars agree. Ah well, I'm placing you back on ignore, in any case, I've got much work to do and you are a man who is so sure of himself that no amount of evidence would change your mind, and you bask in your own ignorance with no desire to challenge it through your own experiments.Adama wrote:
Bacteria isn't mentioned by name, but it is clear God knew about them, because He told the Hebrews to wash themselves in running water and not stagnant. Guns may not be in the Bible, but weapons of war were.
There is a passage in the BIble (Mark 7:1-13) where the Jews rebuke Jesus for not washing his hands before he eats. Jesus says: "It is not important what goes into your mouth but what comes out of your mouth". It is clear from this passage that Jesus did not understand the concept of germs. A god would know what germs are.
You're exposed to germs every day; you get sick when your immune system is compromised, physically or mentally. In this passage Jesus is talking about how toxic thoughts verbalized can threaten your health. You can find all kinds of support for this notion nowadays, even in the "scientific" literature.
You germphobes should try looking after your health so that you don't come to a point where, say, you feel like you need to lose 60 pounds from a 5-8 frame, as you did a few years ago. That alone, and the fact that you dropped that weight so quickly with an extreme program tells me all I need to know about your grasp of good health practices.
But you've framed the issue right for this thread -- what all children are taught, and whether or not it is pure bs. The same trope used throughout the thread -- "even school children know ....."
