Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.
Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.