"If you knew going to church would wipe out malaria would you go?"

[TZ]

This is the barf-tacular commercial I heard on local TV the other day. What a shitty piece of guilt ridden misleading crap.
Why don't you just say GIVE US YOUR MONEY OR TEH POOR PEOPLE WILL DIE!!
Geezus. Last I checked it was the scientists working on experimental vaccines and new drugs who have a chance of that. Not the snake oil merchants who prefer to convert you before they help you out...:puke:

[Warpy]

1. Believers are weird

What makes them think a deity that created malaria would be interested in wiping it out, even for the maximum in human flattery?

[phantom power]

8. Protection racket?

:shrug:

[moggie]

2. What does that even mean?

I'll suggest an alternative: "If you knew that malarial parasites have evolved resistance to many anti-malaria drugs, would you still go to church?" I think mine makes as much sense, and it contains the scary E-word.

[Iggo]

3. "But it doesn't. It never has and it never will."

If fiction was fact, that'd be neato. But it isn't.

[pink-o]

4. These ridiculous hypotheticals just reflect the stupidity of a god-fearing thought process. n/t

[Soylent Brice]

5. i bet it worked, though.

lot of idiots roaming the country.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. All things Dull and Ugly,

Including malaria germs.

He made them all.

[laconicsax]

7. ...but those scientists are guided by GOD.

:eyes: