Natural Selection in Action: First Major Measles Outbreak in 10 Years Centered on Anti-Vaccine Evang

[Computermaster]

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For several days now, state health officials have been sounding the alarm about a nascent measles outbreak in North Texas. As of Friday, there had been nine confirmed cases, a number that will grow as new reports from local health agencies filter up to the state.
The epicenter of the outbreak is Tarrant County, which has now confirmed 10 cases, and the epicenter of cases in Tarrant County seems to be at Eagle Mountain International Church.

Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons delivered the news in a sermon last Wednesday.

The sermon was awkward, to say the least. Pearsons is the eldest daughter of megapastor Kenneth Copeland, and her church is one of the cornerstones of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, his sprawling evangelical empire. He's far from the most vocal proponent of the discredited theory that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine causes autism, but, between his advocacy of faith healing and his promotion of the vaccine-autism link on his online talk show, he's not exactly urging his flock to get their recommended shots.
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[url]http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/08/theres_a_measles_outbreak_at_v.php[/url]

Way to go guys, you're going to let your kids get a potentially fatal and painful disease that was all but dead in the US because "hurr autism" and "hurr God > doctors".

[DrLuke]

It's God's will!

[Col. Buggernuts]

Funny how God seems to hate those who rely on him for healing.

[BrainDeath]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;41929025]Funny how God seems to hate those who rely on him for healing.[/QUOTE]

surely these people realise that even in christian scripture this counts as testing the lord right

[DrasarSalman]

Nah, god's just punishing them because the first humans stole an apple, he'll probably love them again after a bit of praying, even if someone dies. I mean, it's just god's will right? Doesn't he always do stuff like this?

[Col. Buggernuts]

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;41929033]surely these people realise that even in christian scripture this counts as testing the lord right[/QUOTE]Any videos of those megachurches or big name pastors and preachers i've seen seems to consist entirely of them shouting and making claims based on the Bible, pushing their own agenda. They don't ever seem to encourage their congregation to read the Bible itself, and i'd be surprised if many of them did that of their own volition rather than rely on their preacher to interpret it for them.

[Reshy]

Are there Darwin awards for entire groups of people?