Mothers and The Old Gods

Must the holy Madonna jump on the glory of Asia Minor’s vernal equinox?

I mean, it’s probably good enough that motherish Gods had their days in the limelight around this time but still, we don’t need to make excuses to celebrate the old Gods, in fact they were at least five times as badass as the new Gods.

I mean seriously, show me a situation in which Allah could beat Thor in a fight, there’s something I’d like to see, even Shivah wouldn’t stand a chance against a hammer with lightning coming out of it, something that I’m sure many hindus would protest despite the truth that lies underneath it all.

There’s a reason we don’t name our planets after modern Gods, and that’s because they’re not badass enough, in fact, I would propose we push for a new Bible, Torah, Koran etc. to try and get the Gods to be a little more edgy, think about it, take out genesis, stick sin city in there, we can have watchmen instead of exodus and work our way forward from there. Perhaps we can even replace the New Testament with the saw franchise? I’m sure that would go down well, if Jesus could sell any better, I’m sure the marketing department behind saw’s success would be able to do the job.

Also, how much more compelled would you be to go to church if you were threatened with saws if you didn’t go, play a little game guys, forget the transubstantiation, now if you don’t attend you’ll have to eat your own body and blood, how’s that for renovation?

Seriously though I can knock on just about any holiday for denying its heritage but I won’t do that today, most mothers have to deal with enough crap without me throwing a spanner in the works, so sit back, have some breakfast in bed and hope that Zeus will make a comeback soon, because he just does for Gods what syrup does to pancakes.

CAM On The Bookshelf

Earlier today I came across a rather odd book concerning whether vaccinating your children is safe, now seeing as I’ve spent countless hours on the subject previously I thought I’d go through the basic premise of it and work out whether it was worth keeping on the shelf it was for, because if it was what I thought it would be, it certainly wouldn’t be appropriate to keep it where people can read it and believe its contents wholeheartedly.

However, it was a lot stranger than I had expected, the book was written by a homeopath and does a terrible job at answering the question of whether vaccines are safe for children, in fact, what it said was that neither anti-vaxxers nor pro-vaxxers were right, and apparently that meant that taking homeopathic medicine would work to stop any bad effects of vaccines.

Now, there is little danger in vaccines, there are of course very rare cases were side effects occur but they are incredibly rare. And in the event of these situations, taking a sugar pill with water isn’t going to make any difference at all, and if parents use this book as their advisor and treat their children with nothing, then they’re going to suffer.

The writer obviously had a vested interest in that outlook as she was a homeopath herself, but I had never come across these kinds of statements before, which seem to cross a general CAM ideal that their products cure everything but anything proven to work doesn’t. Funny ain’t it?

She was also way too easy on Andrew Wakefield, taking his study as it was presented by the media, despite the truth of twisted data, biased testing, all his colleagues dropping out, his financial bribe and the fact that he’s no longer a doctor and the paper was so atrocious The Lancet had it stricken off the record.

That sounds pretty conclusive to me.

There was also a book promoting baby massages but I didn’t have a go at that one despite the dangers of screwing with a still-forming skeleton, mainly because I’d already made one statement, and nobody else around me seemed to be bothered, it really does make me wonder sometimes.