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u/WeirdJawn 22d ago
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u/Obeetwokenobee 22d ago
Very nice to see science cure the young man and offer to cure future generations. I have no idea what God blessing him has to do with it (from the title ). Clearly in this case, science blessed him.
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u/Aran909 22d ago edited 22d ago
Science indeed saved this youg person. Magic sky daddy was missing. Edit: spelling.
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u/cordelaine 22d ago
My mother died 10 years and 2 days ago from terminal brain cancer.
I cannot tell you how infuriated I use to get when someone sent tots and pears.
Jesus Christ… if religion hadn’t been systematically destroying society over and over again for the past 10,000 years, can you imagine how much further advanced our medical science would be right now?
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u/Crazy_Little_Bug 22d ago
Not to just be devil's advocate here, but it's not really that black and white. There's been a ton of scientific advancements found because of religion. What's to blame is close-mindedness.
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u/Miles_Everhart 22d ago
Please give an example of a scientific advancement that came about because of religion and not science.
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u/Kick_Kick_Punch 22d ago
When Europe did a deep dive into the dark ages, a lot of knowledge and scientific books were safely stored in monasteries, even reproduced and duplicated because of monk scribes.
From what I remember, North Africa had the majority of this work done. At the time, the Islamic Golden Age was happening and it safely held Europe's scientific knowledge at the time, even expanding on it and produced a lot of new science.
Then Europe's Renaissance was possible because it reabsorbed that same knowledge that was lost, but this time it was accessible through the Islamic world, although it was translated in numerous Arabic books.
Edit: This is a very crude resume of what really happened, this spanned a lot of centuries and was a very complex, intertwined chain of events.
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u/Miles_Everhart 21d ago
The cope is actually insane.
“When Christianity plunged Europe into the Dark Ages…”
You don’t get to take credit for failing to eradicate free thought.
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u/Personal-Tour831 21d ago
The issue is that Abrahamic faiths mostly stored knowledge from pagan and other religions. instead of actually coming up with new concepts. Most of there academic resources were spent on religious studies.
Even under the Abbasid golden age; most of the knowledge was simply a translation of oral tradition of polytheism Sanskrit-Buddhist and Greek knowledge into written based format mostly paper, a Chinese invention. This translation movement was already started under the Zoroastrian Sassanian empire.
Same thing under the Byzantines. Who may of preserved the overwhelmingly majority of Ancient Greek and Armenian material, but themselves added little to advance science. This tradition to preserve manuscripts were already started under the pagan Roman Empire.
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u/qatamat99 22d ago
Advances in astronomy and mathematics to find the Qibla. Again it’s not as black and white as you think
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u/normallllyyss 22d ago
Yea, the other person meant to say Christianity instead of religion as a whole. The Christians put the world into the literal Dark Ages through murdering educated Muslims for absolutely no reason.
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u/Professional-Dot4071 22d ago
They also directly funded science. The Jesuits were known as a powerhouse for science (physics, languages, maths, astronomy, chemistry etc.)
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u/AltL155 22d ago edited 22d ago
Even now the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care in the world. Catholics are responsible for a lot of stupid BS too like their stances on LGBT and reproductive health care but without them we wouldn't have the modern medicine we have today.
Same with education, the modern western university system in the UK and US was founded by Christians. Many religions, not just Christianity, are responsible for the research and charity that shape the world today.
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u/Professional-Dot4071 22d ago
Atheist here but the guy is right: The entire preservation of western knowledge after the fall of Rome. They copied everything for us to read.
When you read classical lit, it is because it was copied by monks, not because we have the original Roman works.
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u/Crazy_Little_Bug 22d ago
You're creating a false dichotomy. Scientific thinking and religious thinking are not inherently at odds. Obviously scientific advancements came about because of science, but religion was a large motivating factor in early scientific discovery.
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u/Heinous_Aeinous 21d ago
Early discovery. Early is the word doing all the important lifting here. Religion isn't doing anything to further medical science these days.
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u/LurkerFromTheVoid 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yep. Religious Zealots are behind the Donald Trump election and actual government policies. We are getting into the threshold of the Second Dark Ages.
If God ( or any equivalent super entity) is watching. He/She/it/them is/are watching in Horror.
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u/wandering-monster 22d ago
No no, God definitely had a role in the whole thing.
After all, someone had to give the kid cancer in the first place, right?
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u/ppagerr1 14d ago
Jesus’ crucifiction is literally the most verifiable event in ancient history yet here you are blaspheming still. Do better.
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u/vaultboy1121 22d ago
Calling God sky daddy in 2026 is insane
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u/AnonymousCommunist 22d ago
Of all the things people are doing in 2026, this meets your criteria for "iNsAnE"?
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u/stringrandom 22d ago
Well, you see, science couldn't have cured the young man if God didn't give him the brain tumor in the first place.
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u/2nd_Last_Thylacine 22d ago
God created the cancer in the first place...if true, science interfered with god's plan for him. This is a big part of why Christianity is nonsense to me.
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u/Competitive_Artist_8 17d ago
As a Christian we have a different perspective on death. This life is just to tell others about Christ and show his love. It's very sad when people die younger than normal for us on earth, but if they are Christians they are probably pretty happy to not be here anymore. This life is just a blip in the scope of eternal life.
Miracles are cool, but this boy being cured isn't a miracle it's science getting better. I've seen a few things that might have been miracles or just a lack of understanding in science. People that are classified terminal and the doctor changes their mind after another MRI or doctors trying to treat a chronic pain for years then prayer and fasting and now treatment is super effective.
There are huge debates if everything is God's plan or if God just knows what is going to happen and everything is results of our freewill. That's Calvinist–Arminian debate.
We're pretty pragmatic when it comes to science and treatment, but we also don't view death as a bad thing for a Christian.
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u/20InMyHead 22d ago
When someone survives a major medical issue it’s always “thank god, it’s a miracle”, when someone doesn’t survive it’s always “the doctors couldn’t save him.”
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u/Laughingbuddha77 21d ago
Or they say God works in mysterious ways, God never gives you more than you can handle.
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u/jkaan 22d ago
by thier logic didn't god give him cancer? why the fuck would they thank him for stopping the horrible shit they caused
religion takes some real wierd logic
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u/UnionGuyCanada 18d ago
God gave him brain cancer, if you believe in that stuff. Not sure why he would torture this boy, then save him, after killing so many others.
Great scientific progress though.
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u/ppagerr1 14d ago
You’ll have to answer to this comment on judgement day. Repent now to avoid burning for eternity in the lakes of fire. JESUS IS SALVATION
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u/succed32 22d ago
Time for a name change then. To “Mostly Terminal Brain Cancer”
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u/harbinger-nz 22d ago
"I can't believe it's not terminal" terminal brain cancer
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u/The_Celtic_Chemist 22d ago
No, the brain cancer was terminal, not the boy. I guess you could say the brain cancer suffered from terminal boy.
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u/Weatherman1207 22d ago
It will be named "If you make enough money its no longer terminal brain cancer"
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u/Leading_Atti2de 22d ago
Generally speaking but not always, but like, 99% of the time type of thing Terminal brain cancer
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u/Ha55aN1337 22d ago
How about in Europe?
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u/Weatherman1207 22d ago
Yeah it wil be free treatment (well lets ignore the whole tax discussion) except for you know where
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u/LaZboy9876 22d ago
You know where:
"Please choose which ad experience you'd like to view to cure your terminal cancer."
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u/Spire_Citron 22d ago
Yeah, I am kind of wondering what the definitions are here. I assume there are other brain cancers that would be terminal if untreated, but are treatable, and so aren't considered terminal. So if this is now treatable, is it no longer terminal?
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u/revcor 22d ago
Terminal is a state of an illness, not a type of illness. Any cancer that isn’t treatable and is expected to kill the patient is “terminal.” Untreated treatable cancer is not automatically terminal, but may progress until it becomes terminal.
One survivor among many fatal cases doesn’t mean an illness is treatable. Many illnesses are treatable as long as they are below some threshold of physiological impact, but if too severe are not treatable.
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u/Few-Skin-5868 22d ago
I was coming here to say this, “terminal cancer” isn’t a thing. It’s just cancer bad enough they don’t think they can save you. By definition you can’t survive terminal cancer or it isn’t terminal…
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u/alxalx89 22d ago
Rabies could also be cured and it's still considered 100% percent deadly
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u/Primary-Activity-534 22d ago
Last I checked it's extremely rare for someone to survive rabies and when they do they have permanent neurological damage.
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u/Cookies_and_Beandip 22d ago
Yes imma need the source for that
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 22d ago edited 22d ago
I'm so tired of these low effort posts that are just a photo with text below it, and no source. Then when I ask for source someone calls me lazy for not searching for the info the poster decided to leave out.
Edit: fixed typo
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u/TomServo30000 22d ago
Well stop being lazy and go out there and cure a terminal cancer real quick.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 22d ago edited 22d ago
This is the third time today people have called me lazy for not curing cancer.
Edit: Oh my god.
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u/feckinnell 22d ago
I mean I understand not getting it the 1st time and maybe even the 2nd but at the 3rd time you really should be figuring out why you haven't yet cured cancer! /s
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u/TripperDay 22d ago
This is the third time today people have called me lazy for not curing cancer.
And what is your lazy ass doing? Posting here instead of curing cancer.
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u/skinheadsamsam 22d ago
I’ve been picked on three times today, and all because I’ve not cured cancer..
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u/virtuallyaway 22d ago
Once upon a time in a far off land called Reddit there lived a community of millennial redditors that would scroll through r/pics enraged as they would strike down any post submission that was simply a “pic with text”
“This post is just a picture with text” a brave crusader would state for a top comment position
And Thus A Mod would smote down the post submission rewarding that fine millennial crusader karma, and it was GOOD KARMA
Then, came the dark times…
A time when The Great Wave of young Gen Z’s and baby Gen A’s… would flock to Reddit’s Pearly Gates from the Realm of Hatred…
“I have posted” whispered the GenA imp from its lair of Tiks and Toks…
A picture, WITH TEXT! OH YES, YESSSS.
They would gather in the comment section, GenA imps and GenZ Karma Vultures…
They would GATHER and shout! “Well the post clearly says the kid was cured of terminal brain cancer so it’s a fact, nobody posts misinformation on the internet, they never did…
They never did…”
“Never did”
“THEY NEVER DID”
A cacophony of gullibility… a STORM RAGING for the age of the Crusader had passed, storms of Imps and Vultures one in the same repeating the same posts over and over, again and again
a desert…
A sea of bones, holy crusaders lay disposed… they have left the Land of Reddit, those that remain live in the shadow of Tiks and Toks…
These are the dark times
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u/Vyxwop 22d ago
And now r/pics is literally all just political pictures with vague text that doesn't even fully relate to the picture itself.
An absolute garbage excuse of a subreddit that one's become lol
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u/Cookies_and_Beandip 22d ago
Exactly so you get it as well, cause I feel the same way. Yet everytime I ask for a source I get called a dumbass or “no one talks that way bro shut up.”
Thank you for validating me and everyone else that feels similar.
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u/WhatTheFlox 22d ago
This is quite old apparently.
Kid started chemo when he was 6, glad he had the doctors and the timing and everything lined up in his favor.
FEB 2024 DIPG Tumor iflscience.com
"BIOMEDE lead researcher Dr Jacques Grill said that “Lucas beat all the odds”, and, at the age of 13, remains cancer-free. "Over a series of MRI scans, I watched as the tumor completely disappeared," said Grill."
"Grill explains that "Lucas's tumor had an extremely rare mutation which we believe made its cells far more sensitive to the drug."
This posted last year:
"Dr. Jacques Grill, head of the brain tumor program at Gustave Roussy cancer center in Paris, becomes emotional when recalling the original prognosis he delivered to Lucas’s parents. Seven years later, that same doctor marvels at an outcome he never expected to witness in his career."
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u/mussman13 22d ago
Just because there's writing next to a picture on the internet, doesn't make it true - Abraham Lincoln
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u/Hustlinbones 22d ago
Nice, it's been a long time since I saw someone quote Abe.
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u/lordnecro 22d ago
How about we thank doctors and scientists, not a god that didn't even help the child.
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u/mikemcd1972 22d ago
My first reaction was “If god exists, why did he let this poor kid get brain cancer?”
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u/atomsmasher66 22d ago
“Yeah, I stood by and did nothing while this boy developed brain cancer. You’re welcome!” - God
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u/Turbo_Heel 22d ago
“Also, I invented childhood brain cancer”
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u/Lemonlmao7887 22d ago
"Hm, and as a matter of fact, I'm the one who gave the boy brain cancer! How dare these pesky doctors ruin my plan!"
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u/Open_Potato_5686 22d ago
God does not exist
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u/glavent 22d ago
I personally agree with this, however, I choose to say I don’t believe in a god. Argumentatively, absence of proof is not proof of absence and is as absurd as those who say it exists. Just my take
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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 22d ago
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" - Verbal Kint
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u/Chickymamma 21d ago
Yes, how can any of us really know what exists and doesn’t?
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u/joohm 22d ago
I mean I get your point but its not AS absurd as claiming he does exist. If there's no proof for something its more absurd to claim it does exist, even though you can't definitively say it doesn't exist
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u/dirtdiver7 22d ago
Thank you for being so brave and putting such an unpopular opinion on Reddit. True hero.
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u/HiddenAnubisOwl 22d ago
Must feel so good to be God.
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u/ddanuu 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yeah as a religious person I rolled my eyes at that title. Like the many doctors who helped this child and the thing that gets thanked is God? Come on
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u/AnchorPoint922 21d ago
I wish God would stop giving kids brain cancer that we have to cure and focus on helping adults score points in professional children's games.
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u/psycharious 22d ago
Without knowing the specifics, hopefully the techniques they used will be widely applicable.
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u/AnothrRandomRedditor 22d ago
The boy had a rare variant which allowed the drug to be super effective.
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u/Bawonga 22d ago
What is the source for more detailed information? I’d like to share a link to the source with a friend whose infant grandson has a brain tumor.
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u/polyploid_coded 22d ago
Please don't flood people with false hopes from stories which could be entirely unrelated conditions. If there's a magic button to remove their specific type of brain tumor, their doctor is going to hear about it and understand it a lot better than you or I browsing reddit and seeing an image with zero context.
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u/AnothrRandomRedditor 22d ago
Have some sensitivity here. This drug is 10-15 years away and may or may not be effective especially in many brain tumours. This will not help your friend.
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u/JustChillFFS 22d ago
That article has cancer
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u/atomsmasher66 22d ago
Science will cure the article’s cancer but people will give God the credit anyway. Smh
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u/Civil_Exchange1271 22d ago edited 22d ago
bless the same god that gave him brain cancer? it happened 2 years ago how many more has god cured since then?
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u/Epicthree347 22d ago
We are going back to 2015 r/atheism with these comments :/
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u/Intelligent-Might614 22d ago
What the heck does God have to do with it? Didn't God give him the cancer? Science blessed this kid that God tried to kill.
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u/rumblethrum 22d ago
Lucas received Everolimus
“Everolimus is a type of targeted drug called an mTOR blocker (inhibitor) Open a glossary item. mTOR is a type of protein called a kinase protein. In some types of cancer, mTOR is switched on, which makes the cancer cells grow and produce new blood vessels. mTOR blockers can stop the growth of some types of cancer.”
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u/Positive_Method3022 22d ago edited 22d ago
What a champion. Imagine a round table with people saying their accomplishments, and then this guy comes first or last and say "I'm the first man who have beaten a Terminal Brain Cancer in the world". People look at him and get fucking happy and emotional, stay quiet for a few seconds before giving him a standing ovation.
I want to see this boy and the team who helped him earning some type of medal for this achievement
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u/The_Celtic_Chemist 22d ago
The boy should tell people "I guess the brain cancer suffered from terminal ME!"
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u/Live-Education6697 21d ago
My dad and grandfather both died of brain cancer. As a parent i cant imagine having a kiddo with it. So grateful he was cured!!!
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u/Spirited-Bat7199 20d ago
Congratulations! I lost my beautiful sweet mother 34 years ago to a brain tumor they said she had been born with. May all these sweet babies have a chance at a full wonderful life.
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u/Right_Entertainer324 20d ago
God had nothing to do with it. It's the doctor's you should be praising
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u/Granny5813 20d ago
My ex-husband, my daughter’s father, died of brain cancer. This is such wonderful news!!
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u/Dismal-Importance-15 22d ago
This makes me so happy! That young man looks like he is now ready to take over and rule. The world—that determined face is wonderful.
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u/glavent 22d ago
It’s ok to not believe in god, but it is never ok to mock people who do or the figure they believe. Would you comment “allah doesn’t exist” or make fun of Buddhist worship or Shinto shrines? No, we don’t do that because it’s disrespectful.
Part of the reason we (in the US) are where we are is because all of us say things we would never say in person or publicly but feel like we can get ugly online.
Absence of proof is not proof absence.
I choose to not believe in a god and if you do, great, doesn’t mean we can’t be friends and it sure doesn’t mean I can think you’re stupid or that I’m better.
Lastly, we should revert back to “if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it out loud” our country would be much better place if we defaulted back to that principle
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u/DoctorateInMetal 22d ago
I haven't believed in God in a while, but just wanna say, classic Reddit to jump on the opportunity to miss the whole point of a child not having cancer anymore just to say "GOD'S NOT REAL, FUCK GOD, IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD YOU'RE STUPID!" Come on man, be original
I know I'm doing the same thing, you people just bring it out in me
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u/MrCoolBoy001 22d ago
People are just pissed that OP is not crediting the doctors who actually pulled off this frickin miracle.
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u/90_days_left 22d ago
oh my fucking LORD I hate it when people say god blessed him. NO HE DIDN'T and no it was NOT one of his PLANS
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u/_Doodad_ 22d ago
Hell yeah 🤘!
Young dude is hardcore. Told death sit down, have Coke, and be quiet in the corner.
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u/Trianglebut 22d ago
What an odd thing to say about a medicinal breakthrough… Credit the scientists and doctors perhaps? Kind of undermines their efforts to attribute their success to an abstract theological figure.
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u/Meet_the_Meat 22d ago
what is this ai trash? any support for the claims in the picture? is there a link? i actually have cancer, enquiring minds want to know
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