Idolatry and Medicine
February 11, 2022
I cannot endorse all the content at Vaccine Impact, but here is an excellent piece by Brian Shilhavey on how illness is defined:
Today, modern Western culture has completely changed the concept of “sickness” to deal only with the physical nature of man, with the absence of any concept of “sin” or morality.
As I wrote in my recent article, What is Life?, this can be traced historically to the period in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s known as “the Great Awakening” or the period of “Enlightenment,” where academic thought was being influenced by men such as Karl Marx (communism), Karl Ritter (Aryan race), and Charles Darwin (evolution), where the higher forms of human life, ζωή (zóé) which includes “eternal life (spiritual)”, and ψυχή (psuché) which can be translated as “soul,” where excluded in favor of the lower, only physical part of human life, βίος (bios), which gave us Darwinian biology, and the theory of “evolution” of the human race apart from God.
This period of history is what produced our current definition of “science” and “modern medicine,” which was then organized into an association by the “American Medical Association” in the mid-1800s, which then began to monopolize “healing” by making all other competing forms of healing outside of the pharmaceutical industry illegal.
“Life” now can be defined strictly by their version of “biology” which eliminates any reference to the spiritual world, God, or moral values.
“Sickness” today is not considered a moral issue anymore, and the concept of “sin” is completely gone from the practice of “medicine,” as doctors deal primarily only with the physical part of humanity, where the only “cures” that are allowed are patented pharmaceutical products, which depend on a growing market of “sick” people to allow their industry to grow.
Actual cures that really heal people are a threat to their business model.