Week8, Richard Sloan Beyond Belief 10

Okay another speaker who doesn't really speak about the main topic,
religion versus science. What he really focused was on religion
versus medicine. I just find it difficult to understand how come all
these professional people who have lectured in this conference have
not been open minded about this topic. Richard Sloan, lectures about
religion being the evidence that is linked to health care. First of
all, I would like to say that religion is not and should not be
blamed for health problems that people have. It is up to the
individual to seek the health advice if they wish to, but never
accounting religion as the main problem. I have heard that there are
many cultures who seek non professional health doctors to cure
illnesses, but solely on the individual’s ignorance. I have also
heard that there are some religions that believe that if he patient
is sick or has a terminal illness, that is because God has sent this
to them and therefore one should just be able to live with it because
God sent it. First of all, we live in an era that illnesses can be
cured because we have many more resources to provide health care.
Secondly, I disagree that some people must be deprived by health care
only because they believe or think that God has sent the illness to
them and therefore, one should just learn to live with it. I do
think that God gave each and every one of us the ability to think,
speak, and use some common sense, in circumstances such as medical
attention.

On a final note about the conference Beyond Belief, how come none of
the speakers that were present none of them were priest, ministers,
or pastors? Maybe this would've probably been a better discussion to
present, since we would've seen two different points of views. Rather
than just getting the points of views of people who were solely there
to defend science and downgrade religion?