All medicine should be viewed as a gift from God to help alleviate human suffering. Where is the medicine in homeopathy? It is based entirely on a superstitious faith in “magic water” that is not perceptible even with a microscope. Christians and all intelligent people have a responsibility to use critical thinking and ask for evidence. The human body is a God-given magnificent creation and should be treated wisely and respectfully. The following are eight reasons why homeopathy is not just quack medicine but both a cult and occultic.
1) Cults demand total allegiance.
“Homeopathy
demands a strictly alternative philosophical approach to mainstream medicine.
There is nothing ‘complementary’ about its views. Indeed, it defines itself in
opposition to what it calls ‘allopathy’ and in doing so creates a straw man of
what medicine is today. It lives in an ‘Us versus Them’ world. Followers
slavishly follow the ‘teachings’ of its founder, Samuel Hahnemann, with the
only internal debates being about how to interpret his words. They are zealous
in their need to tell people that they hold the One Truth about medicine and
people who question that are branded as corrupt shills for the conspiratorial
pharmaceutical companies.”
2) Cults
have massive numbers of devotees who left the group, completely disillusioned.
“I see it as a form of intellectual wanking – because there is no
relating back to reality; and people now pay £40 an hour to their homeopath for
that…………As I say, I now
see homeopathy as the disease. I think it is a form of madness. I
feel adversely affected. I feel as if I lost a decade. Somehow I got
trapped in a world that wasn’t mine and it was very uncomfortable. I have had
to work hard to rid myself of cult thinking and am still in that process but I
feel that I have support and the Cult Information Centre are very useful.”
3) Many cults have views on health
and medicine that are harmful. Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, have murdered
thousands because of their erroneous view on refusing blood transfusions.
“I believe
that understanding homeopathy requires a mental model that describes it as a
pseudo-medical and superstitious cult. This model best describes its practices
and the behaviors of its members. The cult model explains why virtually
no homeopaths have condemned the murderous practice of using sugar pills to
treat fatal diseases like HIV and malaria. The first treatment Hahnemann tried
was for malaria. There is no question that he could have been wrong. It is why
we see such a strong and universal anti-vaccination stance among homeopaths.
Hahnemann believed mainstream medicine was the cause
of disease, not its cure. The dogma persists in the thinking of the
cult.”
4) Cults have a charismatic leader
who cannot possibly be wrong.
“One
characteristic of a cult is the unquestioning commitment of its members to
the bizarre ideas of their iconic leader. This, I think, chimes with
several forms alternative medicine. Homeopaths, for instance, very rarely
question the implausible doctrines of Hahnemann who, to them, is some sort of a
semi-god. Similarly, few chiropractors doubt even the
most ridiculous assumptions of their founding father, D. D. Palmer
who, despite of having been a somewhat pathetic figure, is uncritically
worshiped. By definition, a cult-leader is idealized and
thus not accountable to anyone; he (yes, it is almost invariably a male
person) cannot be proven wrong by logic arguments nor by scientific
facts. He is quite simply immune to any form of scrutiny. Those
who dare to disagree with his dogma are expelled, punished, defamed or all
of the above.”
5) Cults forbid critical thought and
challenges to their doctrines.
“Cults tend to brain-wash their members into
unconditional submission and belief. Likewise, fanatics of
alternative medicine tend to be brain-washed, i.e. systematically misinformed
to the extent that reality becomes invisible. They unquestioningly believe
in what they have been told, in what they have read in their cult-texts, and in
what they have learnt from their cult-peers. The effects of this
phenomenon can be dramatic: the powers of discrimination of the
cult-member are reduced, critical questions are discouraged, and no amount of
evidence can dissuade the cult-member from abandoning even the most
indefensible concepts. Internal
criticism is thus by definition non-existent.”
6) Cult
members are part of a select and privileged few and all the unenlightened are considered outsiders.
“Like religious cults, many forms of alternative medicine promote an
elitist concept. Cult-members become convinced of their superiority, based
not on rational considerations but on irrational beliefs. This phenomenon has a
range of consequences. It leads to the isolation of the cult-member from the
rest of the world. By definition, critics of the cult do not belong to the
elite; they are viewed as not being able to comprehend the subtleties of
the issues at hand and are thus ignored or not taken seriously. For
cult-members, external criticism
is thus non-existent or invalid.”
7) Most cults are based on New Age
beliefs.
“If you know
your New Age & occult philosophy you will recognize that what is in focus
here is pantheism, that is, the belief that divinity or life force is
inseparable from and immanent in everything. Leading homeopath Herbert Robert
put it this way, relating homeopathy's vital force to a pantheistic deity in
his Art of Cure by Homeopathy. He
said the ‘vital force’ of homeopathy was part of ‘the moving Energy, the
activating Power of the universe,’ as being ‘passed on in all forms and degrees
of living creatures,’ and as permeating the universe:
“‘If
therefore this force, this energy, actuates or permeates all forms and degrees
of life from the most humble and inconspicuous to the very planets, we may
reasonably assume that vital force is the most fundamental of all conditions of
the universe, and that the laws governing the vital force in the individual are
correlated with the laws which govern all vital force, all forms of energy,
wherever or however expressed. [...] This energy [...] is responsible for all
growth and all development in all spheres of existence.’”
The
connection between homeopathy and occult energy fields is evident:
“Like
Chinese medicine, homeopathy posits [assumes as fact] an energy field or 'vital
force.' Disease is a disorder of the body's energy field, and the way to cure
it is to manipulate that field. The energy field of the medicine stimulates
that body's own fluid to induce healing. As with Chinese medicine, it is
maintained that the energy fields are similar to those of modern physics. Again
the principle cited is the interchangeability of matter and energy.”
8) Cults attack all beliefs that are
contrary to their own.
“The
so-called alternative medicine movement (CAM) is largely an attempt to insert
religious beliefs into the practice and profession of medicine. CAM is also an
attempt to create a double standard or even eliminate the standard of care so
that any nonsense can flourish and con-artists and charlatans can practice
their craft freely without being hounded by pesky regulations designed to
protect the public. These are both insidious aspects of CAM that need to be
exposed and vigorously opposed…… CAM proponents want to allow what is essentially
magic back into the practice of medicine precisely because magic cannot be held
to any standard. Magic can also be optimized for marketing purposes – you can
make grandiose claims without having to back them up with rigorous evidence. It
is for this reason that CAM proponents have been attacking science and the
scientific standard in medicine from every angle.”
Bottom Line
There is no
question homeopathy is both a cult and contains aspects of the occult. Because
the so called remedy is diluted to the point of total non-existence,
essentially the user believes in an invisible force that is assumed to
be doing some sort of healing. The origins and present day practice of
homeopathy is entirely pagan and completely disassociated from Christian doctrine.
This is a faith and belief in an invisible force that is possibly demonic and
can do devastating damage to one’s spiritual life.
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Jerry De Luca is a Christian freelance writer who loves perusing dozens of interesting and informative publications. When he finds any useful info he summarizes it, taking the main points, and creates a (hopefully) helpful blog post.
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