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demwing

(16,916 posts)
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 11:09 PM Oct 2014

American Witchdoctors

few days ago, FOX Instigator Andrea Tantaros speculated that African Ebola patients may visit witch doctors, instead of legitimate hospitals.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/foxs-andrea-tantaros-african-ebola-patients-may-visit-witch-doctor-not-hospital/

Which made me glad that I live in America, dammit. In America, we're much too well educated to fall for such tripe...

...right?



Praise Jesus!
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American Witchdoctors (Original Post) demwing Oct 2014 OP
yea baby Adam051188 Oct 2014 #1
That was absolutely AWESOME!! SkyDaddy7 Oct 2014 #7
Then there's naturopathy! longship Oct 2014 #2
Well I take exception to calling them which doctors zeemike Oct 2014 #3
and they pay them with chickens. whereisjustice Oct 2014 #4
I tried to pay my $3000 medical bill with a chicken. It didn't go over well zebonaut Oct 2014 #11
Charletans.....all of them. blackbart99 Oct 2014 #5
There is no shortage of gullible people SamKnause Oct 2014 #6
I wonder if they do dental problems? rurallib Oct 2014 #8
I FILL this cavity in the name of JEE-SUS! /nt demwing Oct 2014 #9
These preachers should have been committed years ago; but religion gets a FREE pass zebonaut Oct 2014 #10

SkyDaddy7

(6,045 posts)
7. That was absolutely AWESOME!!
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:18 AM
Oct 2014

Thanks for posting!! I posted it to Facebook where I am sure to reduce my number of "friends"! LOL!

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. Then there's naturopathy!
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 11:25 PM
Oct 2014

ND == Not a Doctor.

Naturopathy, quackery based on ignorance and fear of scientific medicine.

Naturopathy vs Science ( from the Science-Based Medicine Blog)

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
3. Well I take exception to calling them which doctors
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 11:52 PM
Oct 2014

A witch doctor was a natural medical healer in a tribe that knew his shit about plants...these people are faker showmen...and know nothing.

But the fakers and showmen are as old as religion itself...it is pollution by dilution.
What ever the original teaching is, it is continually corrupted by opportunist and con men.

blackbart99

(464 posts)
5. Charletans.....all of them.
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 03:53 AM
Oct 2014

They make mockery of real religion. Ha Ha...I said real and religion in the same
sentence...who is the charlatan now?

SamKnause

(13,103 posts)
6. There is no shortage of gullible people
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 06:28 AM
Oct 2014

around the globe.

I can understand people who can not read or write being fooled by the charlatans.

I can not understand educated people being taken in by charlatans.

Charlatans are in it for the money.

What do the educated gullible followers get out of the equation ???

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