Taike Rae suggested that people quit riding Greyhound after a single, horrifying, inhumanly ghastly incident.

I kind of wanted to suggest that she might want to avoid church or homeschooling or preachers after reading about this incident...but I refrained.

I already put my foot in it over there by dareing to suggest that palliative chemo is a more appropriate treatment; more likely to extend the life and increase the quality of life of terminal patients.  And further, that the radical (curative - shooting for a five-year survival rate)treatments that they were demanding for a terminal patient might cause more harm than good...It was suggested that I was in favor of murdering  sick people.

I'm not a doctor, but it seems like using a treatment designed to give maximum benefit to a particular condition is the way to go.

blegh.

Sometimes, there is no point.  Did you know she actually said that she didnt care if private charities withheld treatment that could actually save people's lives?  However, for some weird reason, government programs should be required to spend extra money to give inappropriate treatment to terminal patients that probably won't extend their lives, but will almost certainly cost a fortune more...while rejecting palliative care which would likely help them live a little longer and increas their quality of life.

The mind boggles.

I'd just like to point out, and I realize that noticing this singles me out as a disturbed person, - that the name of the Preacher in the second link is "Anthony Hopkins"

What are the odds?

[UPDATE:  PZ Myers pointed out something that I completely missed.  It just glazed over my brain without question.  He comments on it, though.  People often claim that our "culture" is hostile to Christianity, that the church does not occupy a privilaged place in our society.  Funny thing, when the police showed up to arrest the alleged child-molesting, mudrering, wife-butchering incestuous criminal, what did they do?  They allowed him to finish his sermon. Most of the time, when police show up to arrest someone like that, they dont let him finish getting dressed, or finish a sentence.  They let him finish his sermon.  Good grief.  Seriously, talk to me about persecution in this country, and expect me not to laugh.]

[UPDATE II:  Someone points out that the police might have waited because the didnt know how the parishoners might react.  Good point, especially in a day and age where many of them might be armed, and some parishes are primed for the day when the "government" comes to arrest their preachers and take their Bibles.  You just don't know for sure what you are dealing with.]