back of the big picture i'm tom marvin coming up in this half hour the attacks in boston have reignited the conservative debate over islam and the role that radical extremism plays within that religion writer conservatives lashing out at the entire religion and only a few are responsible for the violence we've seen over the past couple of decades and each year millions of americans are diagnosed with cancer or discovering the cancer drugs are more and more outrageously expensive far more so here in america than anywhere else in the world but we can change that and make prescription drugs affordable in america i'll tell you how to storytelling. so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and some d'armes is the spars and theater says everything you know is wrong and you know you think you're wrong if you really are you're right. i'll just say that you're right.

you know what is wrong. most religious people believe in a kind caring and nurturing image of god however there are those religious individuals who believe in an angry and punishing god and as it turns out believing in an angry god may reveal a variety of mental health related issues in an individual so if you think the believing in god is always good that everything you know is wrong joining me now is dr nevus sultan assistant professor of psychology at marymount manhattan college dr silke welcome. thank you so much thanks for joining us i understand you can still conducted a study on beliefs in an angry god what you find. yes that we like that ad different relationships he looked at an angry god ad benevolent god in a deistic that which is kind of a neutral type of turf and what we found is that as belief in an angry guy can be associated with at various. anxiety disorders including obsessive compulsive

disorder panic disorder social anxiety disorder and mostly anxiety based disorders . were you surprised by those fine. i'm not so surprised because based on evolutionary threat assessment systems and theory we realize that there are neural mechanisms which may react to different fears in the environment and so with beliefs in god we see that beliefs might affect your sense of safety and your sense of danger in the world and so belief in a benevolent ag i might relate to kind of feeling protected in this world where as belief in a harmful or punitive guide might relate more to feeling endangered in this world and that this god might be a negative source in your life as opposed to a positive source myatt just personal experience has been you know i'm just

observing throughout my life has been. people who tend to be republican slash conservative slash even hard right who are religious tend to be very worried about this. angry god that's going to send them to hell whereas people who tend to be liberal progressive. whatever you want to call it democrats. tend to be more associated with the idea of you know the kind of kind jesus help each other we're all in this together you know feed the masses sort of thing did you look at or find or could you extract extrapolate from what you did look at and find any sort of a political connection between people who believe whatever i have dollars as an angry god he had there been some really interesting studies that have been done on that exact topic where they correlate your political kind of stay. and and your

belief system so yeah many articles have looked at that i won't say many but a few have and they are quite interesting and they somewhat aligned with that with your prediction there your hypothesis but it it's definitely worth taking a look at and seeing what's out there and they've done all sorts of studies with belief and this one was particularly interesting because they controlled for belief in god in general which very few studies have done before and because it just kind of showed that evolutionary threat assessment system theory really does play a role it could potentially play a very strong role here you know no evolutionary threat assessment theory just chilled pierce in his book the magical child i think it was wrote about how in the womb the child the developing fetus is constantly asking mom am i going to be born into a safe world or a dangerous world and the way that mom communicates that back is by levels of stress hormones particularly cortisol and sort of experiences

a lot of stress through a pregnancy actually what happens is that the fetus develops more hindbrain fight and flight response and less for brain thought response whereas if mom had low levels of cortisol and doesn't experience a lot of stress during pregnancy you're more likely to have a child who's born with less super response was brain fight or flight response competence but greater intellectual emotional competence. that that's the case does that mean that we're basically born to believe in a but evelyn god or or or an angry god and therefore we also may be born with certain kinds of politics. wow what an interesting question well first of all that's really really fascinating and we do know that it's quite as all stress during pregnancy can be very harmful very deleterious to the fetus they could cause hypoxia and all sorts of things so. it's

very good for a mother pregnant mother to cope well and whether the chicken or the egg phenomenon is somewhat relevant here you know is it that more anxious people are more likely to believe in a punitive type of god or is it that belief in a punitive god leads to disorders so the kind of the direction here is somewhat of someone of interest in this particular study we really believe that the association works where you start off with the belief and then you end up with the mental health issue or the protection from the mental health issue. but yeah i do believe that that whether it's meditation or yoga or whatever a mother can do during pregnancy to reduce stress i think can only help the embryo and also once the child is born as a developmental psychologist i can say as well once

a child is born in the environment creating stress reducing or a low stress environment is very important to reduce anxiety of any sort whether relates to political belief systems etc that's really interesting to look into. dr davis so thank you so much for being with us thank you thanks so much. in the best of the rest of the news after the boston bombings and before the sarnia brothers were even identified conservatives immediately pounced arguing that muslims had been a risk every sponsible for the attacks. they are a member of a larger group of an army of islam of islamists acting together to bring justice to the islamic amount of the islamic nation they believe in this jihad is to be ology

that violence is acceptable to impose is law because islam is under threat in their belief by the west and that's really the the basic fundamental reason why these guys carried it out this is a muslim problem that needs a muslim solution chairman king and when the word got out the sarnia brothers were indeed muslims conservatives cast councils blanket statements condemning the entire islamic world for the actions of a few and labeling all muslims as a violent people but in reality at the core of islamic teachings are beliefs that are very similar to the world's other major religions so why are those on the far right so quick to label as long as a violent religion and blame an entire religion for the actions of a few crazies joining me now is reverend bill keller founder of live prayer dot com rove in color welcome back tom always good to be with you but i wish you would quit saying false statements for example. for example is

long has been for fourteen hundred years a documented religion of heat treated terrorism death and domination ever as opposed to joshua. apartment money bill your pastor you've read the book of joshua you know you god telling telling joshua to go into the city i know every living thing to cut open the bellies of the pregnant mothers children because euro is alum has always every day you can go on the internet and find somewhere in the world where islamised are killing people in the name of allah and you can see and you can find christians who are calling for killing people there is to get yeah and in your god you are actually you know about as the laws to kill people because they're gay these are christians christians in the united states who are pushing those laws there are no place in the bible that says chill gays kill abortion doctors anybody who does that in the name of christ is not operating in

the name actually there is the book of joshua know however those who kill in the name of allah that's what islam teaches they just don't have the numbers in this country to do it bill bill and we're looking at documents of bronze age religion sweet you know we can both find all this nonsense the fact of the matter is there's a billion catholics there's you know a billion and a half christian maybe maybe more and there's a sort of christians. i don't disagree with you but i mean you know you've got there's just just the catholic church claims a membership of a billion and then there are probably another a half a billion people in million prisons where as you know protestants and other very so but my point is that islamize is about the same size slightly smaller but about the same size as christianity and and you've got a few crazies and you know and i'll. say you know the saudis cut the deal with the devil with the law bill going back in the thirty's but aren't but this

a tom tom tom let me give you that this offer tonight ok. you and i together we will go to look say the mall of americans in minneapolis which happens to be kind of hot bread of islam there's a law islamised up there and we will stay in the middle but more of america's and i will preach and you'll stand next to me i'll preach the gospel then you and i might treat we will get on a plane and go to go to saudi arabia and we will go to the airport and we will stand in the middle of the airport and preach well you're making my point i just said i think that the king of saudi arabia back in the one nine hundred thirty s. could cut a deal with the devil when he left the wahhabis and there is there are we both acknowledge there are factions within islam and there are factions within christianity that are malo tom not by there's an entire network of people who are in the who are supporting the guy who was the you know put his name but he was

a limping bomber you know if you're rich you go to cairo you want to go to cairo. i'll pay it built it of all you want to go i will take your we'll take your camera crew you will come right out follow the teachings of jesus in a ladder here and i am doing good to them could you know would you like to do that i not follow the teachings of jesus and love your enemy and do good to them or is your eyes so clear of beings that now you know there's no need to talk about the most others god is a god of love mercy all that love mercy grace all the peace also got a judgment we're all sinners tom and that's the difference is the law is about death and domination christianity is about love empty except that you're scared of your god who is going to punish you hard me ok bill thanks a lot for being with us we're out of touch well we'll continue in a car all together now we're not just. coming out should americans be

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going to dragnet or surveil the community. if you do if you ignore dangerous threats that are not in that community and you go after people who don't have anything to do with it remember we women after a community in world war two and japanese internment is this is a national stain on our on our country and we are still apologizing for it so well put keep the level of hateful speech use so freely by the way is startling disturb you gave us all a well need a dose of sanity yesterday let's hope your fellow congressmen and women get the message. the bad tennessee firearms association the volunteer state based group recently sponsored a lottery giving away a ar fifteen assault rifle. you know apple in a way the same weapon used by adam lanza in the newtown shooting is weird enough

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news recently discussed their plan and spoke to one of the oncologists who authored the report take a look. cody andersen is alive today because of new cutting edge therapies for a type of leukemia called c.m.l. but bills was that medicine began to sort of i was not on the approved list and so they said they would only pay fifty percent of that and that left me five thousand dollars a month co-pay the unprecedented attack on drug prices comes from more than one hundred on colleges they say the prices for cancer drugs are unsustainable and may be harming patients dr hogg look out of m.d. anderson cancer center is the principal author of the commentary did they most all of the f.d.a. approved cancer drugs come at the price of over one hundred thousand dollars which makes it almost impossible for patients to afford them one of the drugs anderson in the article the groups of oncologists ask what determines a morally justifiable price for a cancer drug a reasonable drug price should maintain all physical industry profits without being

viewed as profiteering and a quote these doctors are absolutely right why can't big pharma settle for only forty two billion dollars in profits so that americans can get lifesaving cancer drugs they need at prices that won't bankrupt their families and leave them homos to cancer drugs are the only drugs on the market that are gouging the wallet of americans last year eleven of the twelve new to market drugs approved by the f.d.a. were prized above one hundred thousand dollars per patient per year and americans pay nearly fifty percent more for comparable prescriptions in the united states than people pay in the united kingdom france germany spain and pretty much every other developed country in the world for instance look at nexium a drug commonly prescribed to treat acid reflux in spain a prescription for nexium cost eight dollars. on average one thousand dollars in

france and the united kingdom nexium costs on average thirty and thirty two dollars respectively. but here in the united states a prescription for nexium costs on average a whopping one hundred eighty seven dollars six times as much as across in france in the u.k. . another commonly prescribed medication in the united states used to treat high cholesterol in new zealand prescription for lipitor across on average about six bucks in south africa and spain across eleven and thirteen dollars respectively but here in the united states a prescription for lipitor costs on average one hundred dollars these are just two of the commonly used drugs that are bankrupting americans other commonly used medications like knees an x. vault like toronto and celebrates also cost more here in the united states than in other countries in the developed world prescription drug pricing in the united states is unregulated which means

a big pharma can basically charge whatever it wants for prescription drugs. if you ask executives at america's top pharmaceutical companies about the high cost of prescription drugs they'll tell you that high and increasing drug prices are necessary to sustain research and development efforts but numerous studies have debunked those claims one study by a british medical journal found that for every dollar the pharmaceutical companies spend on r. and d. research and development they spend nineteen dollars on promotion and marketing in their drugs make no mistake about it lifesaving medications and commonly prescribed drugs in america today are absurdly expensive here and only in this country because big pharma is ripping off americans so what can we do about this how do we drive down the cost of prescription medications right now in canada drugs to a fraction of what they do here same drugs same manufacturers that's largely because in canada there's a single payer insurance program that negotiates prescription prices with the drug

companies. as the group physicians for a national health program a group of doctors campaigning for single payer health care system points out when all patients are under one health care system the payer the american citizen government has a lot more clout and influence over the pharmaceutical industry for example the veterans administration they get roughly a forty percent discount on prescription drugs because of their large buying power . imagine if that by power were spread to all americans instead republicans put into medicare part d. that it is illegal for medicare to negotiate with the companies for discounts they have to pay full retail. competition and negotiation what some would call the free market are the great fears of big pharma and the reason why big pharma is so opposed to any kind of single payer health care system. but isn't it about time

that we put the lives of americans ahead of the wallets of the big pharma six and stockholders. it's time to save lives we already have a single payer not for profit health care system in the united states it's called medicare all we need to do is reduce the eligibility age to zero birth and give it the ability to go sheet prices with the drug companies i call it medicare part easy for everybody it could be done with a two page piece of legislation and it has been proposed repeatedly in congress only to be blocked by republicans wake up your friends and neighbors and tell them about it and call your legislators medicare for everybody and that's the way it is monday april twenty ninth two thousand and thirteen and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your it.

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