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Brainstormy

(2,428 posts)
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 04:14 PM Jul 2017

Cure for Leprosy

just ran across this in my cache of Bible science. In case you need the cure for Leprosy:


Leviticus 14 (KJV)
"4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and..."
And unfortunately there's more

Alternatively, you could just take antibiotics.

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Cure for Leprosy (Original Post) Brainstormy Jul 2017 OP
And they criticized witches for casting spells. Binkie The Clown Jul 2017 #1
The only useful thing defacto7 Jul 2017 #2
Cynic SCantiGOP Jul 2017 #3
The Old Testament is full of some crazy shit. progressoid Jul 2017 #4
Typical buybull cure. nt Duppers Jul 2017 #5

defacto7

(13,610 posts)
2. The only useful thing
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 06:41 PM
Jul 2017

is all the washing. It could help the symptoms if it's not too bad of an infection and possibly help slow the spread. But then religion needs blood, killing, pain and rituals that make it seem more mystical and godly. And all that blood, killing, pain and ritual probably negate anything the cleanliness could have helped. Jees..

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