Religious tolerance is OK until it starts interfering with community health [Opinion]

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OPINION

Religious tolerance is OK until it starts interfering with community health

By Tim Newton

 

 

Last week it was revealed that six children have died in the southern provinces of Thailand since June this year. Sadly, children die all the time through misadventure and incurable disease.

 

But these six children died from Measles, one of the many diseases that have been brought under control in most communities over the past half century. Vaccination has also brought under control scores of other, in the past, deadly or disabling diseases. Here are just a few…

 

Measles

Rubella

Cholera

Meningococcal disease

Influenza

Diphtheria

Mumps

Tetanus

Hepatitis A

Pertussis

Tuberculosis

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/opinion/religious-tolerance-is-ok-until-it-starts-interfering-with-community-health

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2018-10-22

 

[overherebc]

All religion is like a badly behaved dog. It should be kept in the home and not allowed out. It should certainly not be allowed in schools or public places.

[seahorse]

19 minutes ago, overherebc said:

All religion is like a badly behaved dog. It should be kept in the home and not allowed out. It should certainly not be allowed in schools or public places.

In fact, it should be put down. 

[RichardColeman]

49 minutes ago, overherebc said:

All religion is like a badly behaved dog. It should be kept in the home and not allowed out. It should certainly not be allowed in schools or public places.

Disagree. Should be All religions that have failed to come into the 21st century

[overherebc]

10 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Disagree. Should be All religions that have failed to come into the 21st century

That would be all religions then as they are all still in the middle ages.

[Misterwhisper]

I am religiously opposed to all religions, because they all harbor the very real potential of making their believers more stupid and ignorant than they usually already are.

[jethro69]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Disagree. Should be All religions that have failed to come into the 21st century

So, that means pretty much all!

[grumbleweed]

Religion is like genitalia, don't go waving it around in public and keep it away from children

[sirmud63]

2 hours ago, overherebc said:

That would be all religions then as they are all still in the middle ages.

execpt for rastas.

[overherebc]

6 minutes ago, sirmud63 said:

execpt for rastas.

Agnosticism.

Does sh-t actually happen or not.

[Misterwhisper]

4 hours ago, overherebc said:

Agnosticism.

Does sh-t actually happen or not.

Cargo cults: Drop shit for us!

[RocketDog]

Pastafarianism: The Flying Spaghetti Monster took sh-t for our sins

[zzaa09]

On 10/22/2018 at 12:13 AM, RichardColeman said:

Disagree. Should be All religions that have failed to come into the 21st century

Which would include ALL of them......

[Orton Rd]

Easy to guess the religion concerned before reading it!

[Moonlover]

3 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Easy to guess the religion concerned before reading it!

And yet Saudi Arabia has managed to virtually eliminate measles in just 20 years. What do they know that that has not reached the ears of inhabitants of Yala?

[kannot]

On 10/22/2018 at 1:23 PM, overherebc said:

All religion is like a badly behaved dog. It should be kept in the home and not allowed out. It should certainly not be allowed in schools or public places.

It should be "put  down" how anyone "believes" anything without evidence defies rational thought.

[fruitman]

On 10/22/2018 at 2:48 PM, Misterwhisper said:

I am religiously opposed to all religions, because they all harbor the very real potential of making their believers more stupid and ignorant than they usually already are.

They also make a LOT of noise, temples and mosques don't need to be SO LOUD! It keeps people out of their sleep and annoys them.

[Orton Rd]

20 hours ago, Moonlover said:

And yet Saudi Arabia has managed to virtually eliminate measles in just 20 years. What do they know that that has not reached the ears of inhabitants of Yala?

Pity they have not eliminated cutting up young girls genitals, beheading people, stoning them, public whipping and of course murdering journalists and flushing the remains down the sewer. I really don't think the Saudi's have anything to be proud of.

[Moonlover]

20 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Pity they have not eliminated cutting up young girls genitals, beheading people, stoning them, public whipping and of course murdering journalists and flushing the remains down the sewer. I really don't think the Saudi's have anything to be proud of.

Off topic and irrelevant to measles, but none the less you do make some very valid points.

 

With one exception. FGM is illegal in KSA and not practised by Saudis themselves. It is only carried out illegally amongst the immigrant population from Africa and Pakistan.

 

ML