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Fundamentalists Reveal Satan as The Cause of Cancer

Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Posted: June 7, 2011.

Print: POLITICUSUSA

What would you do if you were a breast cancer survivor and found out the cause of your cancer was not DNA mutations or risk factors such as smoking, drinking, and diet, but sin and Satan’s wiles?

Many Christians live this reality. I know one. She is a breast cancer survivor. The other day she attended a Christian education class through her church and came away with the knowledge that she’d had breast cancer because she was bitter and unforgiving.

One day she was living in the 21st century, more or less. The next, she had stepped back three thousand years to the Bronze Age. And she was outraged. Not at the idiocy of it all, not because her church expected her to believe such nonsense, but because there had been no warning labels: if she had been told 10-15 years earlier that bitterness and an unforgiving nature could lead to breast cancer, she would have changed her ways.

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I’m happy to declare that I’m a sinner in the eyes of the lord ( although I can’t think of a greater sinner than him). In spite of this fact I haven’t had any life threatening diseases. Must be that it’s just a fairy tale.

posted on June 15, 2011
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