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Given the disturbing trend in recent years of women being denied medication - namely birth control and emergency contraception - by pharmacists who Think They Know Better, doesn't a school of pharmacy focusing on biblical ideals just sound like a delight?

Cedarville University thinks that's a swell idea!





Unless I'm missing something - and perhaps the bible has a wellspring of relevant pharmacological information that I just missed - I'm not seeing the real benefit of my pharmacist knowing Proverbs over progestin. All I can imagine happening, really, is an increased probability of getting an earful of one and none of the other.

Cynical?

Cedarville is currently seeking accreditation and hopes to open its school of pharmacy in 2009. They'll need to go through the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, the Ohio Board of Regents, and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to get accredited.

God save us from your followers!

I can't wait for the next customer who comes to fill out a prescription for antibiotics only to have the pharmacist bring out a butcher knife

"Well that would be great... but the bible says to cut off that which offends you. So let's see that finger!"

Actual doctors are part pharmacists themselves. I mean they have to know the medication they are giving their patients so just plain pharmacists doing this: "Today’s pharmacists not only fill prescriptions, but they can also have an impact on what medications are used, can participate in research, and may even be called upon to go on rounds with doctors." is what scares me the most about this whole school.

I too, hope that it will not come to pass and if it does I want big clear print signs (in all formats like for the blind or deaf etc. aswell) that the pharmacist in question might not give you what you know you need.

This needs to stop. Yes, they have a right to not be forced to violate their moral principles, but the woman who is picking up her prescription has a right to make her moral decision without the pharmacist interfering. They can either give her the medication or seek employment in a different field.

Besides, wouldn't we not have the medicines that have saved people's lives if we followed biblical principles and shunned science? I bet in biblical times people would stone you thinking pharmacology was witchcraft.

I'm suddenly reminded (probably thanks to my sobriety and depression biggrin ) of a quote I heard on the Simpsons today.

"Restraining order: Religion must stay 500 feet away from Science at all times. Failure to do so will result in something bad."

You mean like when people try to say that socially-constructed gender roles are biologically innate and that they should be rigid and strictly enforced? That kind of thing? I see that as a misuse/misunderstanding of science. There is a lot of scientific evidence proving that most gender differences are the result of socialization. Even if some differences are biological, it doesn't mean that we have to enforce them. That's the naturalistic fallacy at work.

....Or did you mean something different?



I liked Ned Flanders' quote in the last Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode: "Please, Lord! Give me the power to psychologically torture them into loving you!" ....But I think that belongs in the "hell house" topic.

And yea, the male lion ate first because The Good Lord did endow him with the Ballls of Dominance!