Excerpts: … a large hunk of our profession continues to fracture away from subluxation-based care. Medically minded chiropractic educators sneer at the work of our founders and poison the minds of fledging chiropractic students using straight chiropractors’ alleged belief in vitalism and other non-material constructs as part of their constellation of arguments against the validity of the science-end of subluxation. Why should we keep handing them that card?
This essay will take a wide-open look at one of the more controversial subjects in the original portrait of the philosophy of chiropractic painted by our esteemed founder, Daniel David Palmer. That subject is God, or at least his repeated use of the word God in association with what he believed holds the universe and life in organised existence. What follows is tailored to those members of the chiropractic profession with an interest in our original philosophy, and how its arguably theistic overtones have been handled over time.
Author keywords: Palmer - Theism - Chiropractic
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