Medicine as religion

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The premise that we are born defective and require the injection of diseases and toxins to acquire or maintain good health defies all common sense and logic.

Years back (2004), I read an excellent book by french author Olivier Clerc (Medicine, Religion et Peur; l'influence cachee des croyances) which laid out the idea that medicine has become the new world religion.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/1932181148?condition=used&tag=bookfinder-ca-b-20
(Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices)

physicians have taken the place of priests; 

vaccination plays the same initiatory role as baptism, and is accompanied by the same threats and fears; 

the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation; 

the fight against disease has replaced the fight against sin;

eradication of viruses has taken the place of exorcising demons;

the hope of physical immortality (cloning, genetic engineering) has been substituted for the hope of eternal life; 

pills have replaced the sacrament of bread and wine;

donations to cancer research take precedence over donations to the church;

a hypothetical universal vaccine could save humanity from all its illnesses, as the Saviour has saved the world from all its sins;

the medical power has become the government’s ally, as was the Catholic Church in the past;

"charlatans” are persecuted today as "heretics” were yesterday;

dogmatism rules out promising alternative medical theories; 

the same absence of individual responsibility is now found in medicine, as previously in the Christian religion; 

patients are alienated from their bodies, as sinners used to be from their souls.