“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11)
Growing Dominion, Part 15
If the basic assumptions underlying what has come to be called “conventional” medicine are biblical in their origins, then how are we to account for the large numbers of conservative Christians who have turned their back on this form of medicine? The central responsibility for this is not to be laid at the feet of those who have turned away in disgust. The answer is to be found in the profound corruption that has occurred in modern medicine. The fact that the foundations of the house are sound (which I maintain) does not necessitate that the rooms of the house cannot become filthy – because they most certainly have. There are many examples of this, but let’s begin with the most obvious.
In addressing this problem, we have to be careful not to over-analyze it. All of us judge the character of others in areas we cannot understand on the basis of what that character does in areas we can follow. If I lived next door to a nuclear physicist (whose books I could not understand), I would not worry about this if, in neighborly conversation, he solemnly maintained that his front lawn was pink. In the same way, just as striking, and far more tragic, the American medical establishment allows abortions to be routinely performed in their hospitals. And then they ask us to continue to believe that these are places of healing. In other words, people are being dismembered on the fifth floor, and cancer patients are invited to come to see the doctors on the third floor because “we care.” Yeah, right.
Now let us assume for the sake of argument that the best cancer treatment available in the area is to be found on the third floor of that hospital. Who is responsible for chasing patients away from the best treatment available? The answer is that the hospital is. When doctors come to believe that they are gods walking the earth, and it lies within their hands both to give life and take it, they have no one to blame but themselves when ordinary people (who think that hospitals are not for killing in) make themselves scarce. So when someone shuns their offered help, and tries to cure his own cancer by shaking a box of corn flakes over the troubled spot, he is certainly a fool. But any doctor at the hospital who wonders why this is happening is the bigger fool.