by Steve C. Halbrook
What do many doctors today and the pagan physicians of old have in common? More than you might think. R. J. Rushdoony writes this about the pagan physician:
In the pagan tradition, the doctor was a god or a semi-incarnate agent of a god, such as Asklepios. Medicine was an occult practice; medical practice in the healing tradition of the Asklepieia of the Greeks was by oracles. Asklepios was the chief Greek god of healing; he was also the first Greek god to be received into the Roman pantheon, indicating the importance of healing to the Romans. …
[I]t was precisely the element of naturalism in pagan antiquity which led to this view of the physician [as a semi-divine being – ed.]. There was no true doctrine of a transcendent God, but only of gods who were divinized heroes … The hero, who through his power, or the physician who through his knowledge of medicine, commanded nature was thus in some sense a divine being and has a measure of infallibility. … the more naturalistic the pagan physician became, the more he saw himself and was seen by others as a godlike being. Thus, the doctor of the Greco-Roman world, the more his practical knowledge grew, the more authoritarian he became. He readily turned also to charms and amulets, because magic was seen as a means of controlling nature.[1]
In our age of secular humanism, many claim to not be religious, but secular humanism is simply the worship of man and his achievements. Like the pagan physician of old, many of today’s doctors put their faith in so-called medical achievements—and expect you to do the same.
They expect you to blindly accept what they tell you, without ever questioning them. In short, they expect to be seen as infallible—as if they are divine, or at least speaking on behalf of a god.
As high priests of man’s supposed medical achievements, humanist doctors adamantly insist on their magic potions—vaccines. While these potions have been long discredited as safe—and their efficacy is questionable (relying on deception to look effective)—the never-ending chant “it’s safe and effective, safe and effective, safe and effective” somehow transforms vaccines into something they are not.
Those who challenge such superstition veer from the established orthodoxy, and are therefore “unscientific” heretics who must be ostracized, coerced, and condemned. James Martin Peebles said it well in 1913:
Previous to the Reformation the state stood behind the priest and enforced his edicts, from whence thousands of victims fell before the steel and the flame of a merciless persecution. Today the state stands behind the commercialized, fee-hunting doctor, to enforce his vaccination fraud against the lives and health of millions of little children.[2]
Today’s pro-vaccine medical tyranny must be opposed, as in the Reformation, by the power of truth. By this means, and by God’s blessing, can such a powerful religious system be overcome, and there can be medical reformation in the land.
Notes
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[1] Rousas John Rushdoony, The Roots of Reconstruction (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1991), 462, 463.
[2] James Martin Peebles, Vaccination a Curse and a Menace to Personal Liberty: With Statistics Showing Its Dangers and Criminality (Los Angeles, CA: Peebles Publishing Company, 1913), 9. Peebles has some important things to say on vaccines, but we do not endorse his spiritualism.
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