Reflection on Worldview

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REFLECTION ON WOLRDVIEW
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Christian Spirituality and Modern Healthcare
Christian spirituality basically refers to the set of beliefs, values and issues
directly or indirectly pertinent to the teachings of the bible. For Christians, the role of God as a
healer is a primary influence in recovery from illness. Prayer, for patients with faith based
preferences, is adequate to delink them from disease. With the increasing incorporation of
modernity into healthcare, a few racks have emerged between Christian spirituality and modern
healthcare (Grant & Oman, 2018).
There are Christians who believe that the modernisation of healthcare reduces
and undermines the role of God as the healer. They argue that some patients solely believe in the
medical practitioners or the health institutions handling them. This, according to them, has
reduced prayerfulness and faith in God as the supreme healer and giver of good health. In
addition, some argue that activities like vaccination are unnecessary as God protects us all
against harm of whatever nature. There are Christians who are against birth control. They argue
that this is a global depopulation programme run by the agents of the devil. According to them,
God wants the human population to increase and not to reduce. Indeed, questions have risen on
the exact objective of family planning. Some have even questioned the nature of the material
used to synthesize the barrier contraceptives (Sutton, 2018).
Some Christians believe that a number of modern health practices promote a
sinful way of life. For instance, they argue that birth control and protective medicines like pre
and post exposure prophylaxis increase immorality especially among the youth who dread
pregnancy and venereal diseases. They say that there are satanic people behind the scenes that
work round the clock to ensure such services are easily affordable to the majority of the
population so that they freely engage in sexual intercourse which according to them is one of the

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tools the devil is using to destroy the world. There are some who have different views towards
certain medical practices. These are practices like blood transfusion which some view it as an
ungodly act (Tarpley J & Tarpley M 2017). Another practice is nudity especially during physical
examinations by gynaecological experts. They argue that exposure of nakedness is wrong
regardless of the motive. In conclusion, there are a number of differences between modern
healthcare and the Christian beliefs.
Scientism and its Criticism
Scientism is an excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques as
the only means by which the society should determine its day to day way of life. At the very
least, this knowledge is considered superior to any other knowledge. According to Stenmark
(2017), scientism regards ethics and religion to only make sense if aligned with scientific truths.
Scientism can either be strong or weak. In strong scientism, science and its methods provide the
only fully valid route to gaining knowledge for answering questions to the exclusion of other
methods and disciplines. Weak scientism, on the other hand, acknowledges other sources of
information other than just science. Scientism, as widely viewed, tends to promote evolution
over creation prompting massive criticism from the religious organisations and the philosophers
Scientism, though pervasive, has its critics who have coined arguments against it.
These critics argue that scientific knowledge has its own limits. For practical purposes, no single
ideology generated by the human brain is perfect. There are two major arguments against
scientism. One is “The fundamental argument against scientism” and the other is “For science
and against scientism”.