On The Road In The Kingdom Of Fear

Why I Hate Religion - Part I

everytime i find out something awful and religousy im going to post it under the title 'why i hate religion - part ....' - this is the first one

In 2001, there was a real chance that the childhood-wrecking and frequently lethal disease of Polio could be wiped out. Only a few, usually war torn areas like Afghanistan, had not been reported as "clear." (The two sides in the civil war in El Salvador observed a truce so that the vaccine could be safely distributed.)

However, in Bengal some Mullahs spread the rumor that the vaccine led to impotence and diarrhea (a bad combo) and urged mothers to keep their children away from the nurses and physicians. Most Bengalis were too smart to listen to ravings like these, which exactly resemble the view of Dr. Timothy Dwight, who felt the vaccination against smallpox was an interference with God's design.

In northern Nigeria, where imams hold state power in many provinces, the polio vaccine was denounced as a plot "by the US and the UN" to "sterilize Muslims." Because of this the disease returned to Nigeria and also spread back to several African countries that thought they had bidden farewell to it. Decades work have been ruined, along with the lives of uncounted children.

posted by Alexander Try @ 8:01 pm