re: #120 jaunte

People still too slow in figuring out how this aerosol transmission thing works

And when you’re threatened (blackmailed) with Hell (however your church defines that: literal burning, separation from God, &c), you have a powerful incentive to go to church.

It’s a perfectly circular argument: If you don’t get sick at all, then God spared you. If you do get sick but recover with the care of medical doctors and nurses trained by humans and backed with technology built by humans, then God saved you (not the doctors and nurses and engineers, &c).

If you die, then God needed an “angel” or whatever to be called home.

In my last hand surgery, a VA doctor asked me after I’d been given sleeping medications but before I slept if I wanted him to pray with me before he began surgery. (It’s marked in my chart I an an atheist, so he wanted to prey on me, not pray with me.)

I was clear that I put my trust in his skill and training as a physician and surgeon, and that was good enough for me.

By contrast, the hospital chaplain came round before I went to surgery. He just asked how I was doing and if he could do anything for me such as carry a message to my wife waiting outside.