Modern Medicine & The Temptation of Babel

Courtney Reissig ^

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Over Thanksgiving last year, I got strep throat. I haven’t had strep since college and it reminded me quickly why I hope to never have it again. It’s awful. But antibiotics are God’s gift to humanity. I only had to endure the effects of strep until the antibiotics kicked in, but every hour the pain lasted, I thanked God I live this side of modern medicine.

...Back during the anthrax scare of the early 2000s, news anchor Tom Brokaw closed his evening broadcast saying “in Cipro we trust.” This drug had saved the life of his co-workers and many others. Let all of America praise it, he said. While it was partly a lighthearted comment about the blessing of having protection against Anthrax, his comments revealed that the idol of trusting in our own inventions runs deep.

The more we develop, the more we grow, and the more we create, the more susceptible we are to thinking that we are here by nothing other than the strength of our own hands, our own minds, or our own health...

God knows our tendency towards idolatry as much as he knew the hearts of those in Babel. And in every instance he responds with mercy. For them, he confused their language so they were protected from their own pride and idolatry.

For us, he doesn’t let us understand or know everything. He allows modern medicine to fail us.

He lets us still get strep throat. He lets flu vaccines fail. He let’s birth plans go awry. He even lets our bodies decay and ultimately die. We are not God. He reminds us just how small we really, lest we foolishly begin to think that we could ever ascend to his seat of power...

[Patriot777]

Cipro is the only antibiotic I can tolerate. Allergic reactions everything else. Or made sick beyond belief.

No doctor will prescribe Cipro now because of its black box warning about I think brain problems or cardiac.

I use homeopathic remedies, water and rest and do just fine.