Originally Posted by
BeardoMSU
Context? Interesting...I'm wondering if such gymnastic graciousness would be awarded to someone opposite your political spectrum, in similar circumstances? I mean, you're justifying someone's beliefs of witchcraft and sex with demons...just typing that sounds ****ing nuts.
As far as "being from a place where witchcraft is practiced" and "a common thing for people nowadays to go and find something about someone's personal life to discredit them"....as you said, context matters...in this case, we're talking about medicine and science and its capacity to stop a deadly global pandemic. Someone peddling in such things as demon semen (that rhyming sounds like James Joyce**), Alien DNA, and mixing it all with prosperity-gospel is absolutely in-bounds for criticism, as it relates directly to that individual's credibility as a "doctor". And this person chose to thrust themselves into the public microscope, btw. This person is being promoted by many people very close to the President of the United States, including his oldest son. And on top of that, she's personally soliciting POTUS on Twitter. If that's not the definition of fair game, I don't know what is. Also, it's not like her comments were ancient history, either....just yesterday she was threatening Facebook and Twitter for censoring her posts containing misinformation re: both HCQ and mask wearing; she said all their websites would crash because that's what happens when you challenge God and Jesus. Not joking. I fail to see the benefit to "Western Medicine" that practices such as blood-letting, exorcisms, seances, happy-thoughts, etc. may have.
You said "you and a few others are very good at that" (re: discrediting people). Do me a favor and name a single person I've rooted-out/discredited/slandered in a way that wasn't absolutely germane to the topic of discussion. I'll look forward to this detective work.
"I doubt you're a christian but...". I found this comment interesting. What in my posts lead you to this conclusion? I don't even engage the overtly religious discussions that many posters have, so I'm at a loss. I avoid them actually.
Just fyi, I was raised Southern Baptist, which admittedly I never fit into. Then I went to college, met and married an Episcopal, and that's where I am now.