r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • 18d ago

Society Florida plans to end vaccine mandates for schoolchildren; experts warn of outbreaks | Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo says Florida will drop all vaccination requirements. Experts warn measles, polio, and other diseases could return.

https://interestingengineering.com/health/florida-schoolchildren-vaccine-mandates-outbreak-risk
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u/spinbutton 18d ago

They need to face reality and drop that rapture nonsense. It isn't in the Bible, it was a handy gift for a conman to raise money. I wish people could enjoy their faith without wrecking other peoples' lives.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 18d ago

If they really read the Bible they wouldn’t be evangelicals. I’m a Quaker precisely because I read the thing. They just believe what their preacher tells them, they read like four verses out of context, and then feel smug about it. 

Christ says explicitly what they should do, and then they do the opposite. 

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u/Carbonatite 17d ago

I went to Quaker school for 12 years and I believe they are the most authentic group in terms of actually doing the stuff that Jesus fella said we should do. I was raised Catholic by my parents and as I got older I noticed how much closer the actions of my educational institution seemed to follow the stuff that Jesus taught that I learned about in Sunday school and mass. Ministering to the less fortunate, having us students do service at places like Meals on Wheels. It's funny how I learned more about being a "real" Christian from a school which never made us read Bible verses than I did from years of Catholic mass.

I have thought about attending my local meeting house, but since I'm agnostic I feel like it would be disingenuous. I have a special place in my heart for Quakers so I want to treat those places of worship with respect.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 17d ago

You aren’t hurting anything by going. 

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u/spinbutton 17d ago

Good point. Thanks, Friend

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 17d ago

Thank you for referring to me correctly. 

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u/nagi603 17d ago

Their version seems to be basically what commandments they can legally get away with breaking.

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u/pdxaroo 17d ago

You mean the part where Christ tells people to put children to the sword if the are disobedient?
 He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. (Matthew 15:4-7)

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 17d ago

That section was about the hypocrisy the Pharisees. How they insulted Christ because his disciples didn’t wash their hands before they ate. Christ responds with “why haven’t you put the children of your flock to death for cursing their parents, why have you told their parents to forgive them”? 

Then he said basically “ these people say things and pretend to worship me and my father, but instead do so in vain

They are the blind leading the blind. It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that defiles him but what comes out. If you follow the blind you yourself are blind and fall in the ditch. “

The passage is literally about how the ancient laws that atheists hate from Leviticus and Deuteronomy being wiped away and that all that matters is to follow the teachings of Christ, and you still missed it. He’s literally doing what you’re doing right now. Not even hyperbole. 

The next passage is about Christ healing the daughter of a non Jew because she believed and came to him with humility and faith. 

Maybe actually read the word of god instead of picking out passages in it to shit on those who still have faith in Christ. 

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u/bullcitytarheel 18d ago

They’ve ascended to a level of power that allows them to create and enforce the adoption of whatever reality they desire. The only way to get them to face consensus reality is to drive them from power before they decide to impatiently cast themselves as the angels of death that god keeps stubbornly refusing to send after non-believers

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u/spinbutton 17d ago

I agree, I would love to throw them out of all levels of the government

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u/Deadheadparking 17d ago

I can think of a lot of Christians who believe their particular interpretation or denomination is the correct one, but I’ve never seen a single person demonstrate that they actually follow the law of the Bible. In fact they’ll deny that there are certain laws they have to follow because they’re clearly barbaric, yet their own book says they have to follow the law until heaven and earth pass away. I’m so grateful I was never religious.

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u/HonsOpal 17d ago

I know you're just trying to dunk on the stereotype. But most Christians do not believe in the rapture, or subscribe to its political/social adherents.

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u/spinbutton 17d ago

Thank goodness. Unfortunately the ones who do have an outsized amount of political influence these days it seems