'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach

Group to hold ‘effective alternative healing’ event in Washington state in which they peddle a ‘sacrament’ known to be industrial cleaner

Ed Pilkington in New York
Sat 20 Apr 2019 01.52 BST First published on Sat 20 Apr 2019 01.44 BST

A group calling itself Genesis II Church of Health and Healing plans to convene at a hotel resort in Washington state on Saturday to promote a “miracle cure” that claims to cure 95% of all diseases in the world by making adults and children, including infants, drink industrial bleach.

The group is inviting members of the public through Facebook to attend what they call their “effective alternative healing” at the Icicle Village Resort in Leavenworth on Saturday morning. The organizer of the event, Tom Merry, has publicized the event on his personal Facebook page by telling people that learning how to consume the bleach “could save your life, or the life of a loved one sent home to die”.

The “church” is asking attendants of the meeting to “donate” $450 each, or $800 per couple, in exchange for receiving membership to the organization as well as packages of the bleach, which they call “sacraments”. The chemical is referred to as MMS, or “miracle mineral solution or supplement”, and participants are promised they will acquire “the knowledge to help heal many people of this world’s terrible diseases”.

In fact, MMS consists of chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach that is used both on textiles and in the industrial treatment of water. It has been banned in several countries around the world for use as a medical treatment.

In the US, the chemical cannot be sold for human consumption. In 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) put out a public warning after it was notified of many injuries to consumers from drinking the fluid, with symptoms that included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, severe dehydration and one person who had a life-threatening reaction.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/19/church-group-to-hold-washington-event-despite-fda-warnings-against-miracle-cure

[ProudLib72]

1. I'm switching over from The Church of The Holy Tide Pod

This place sounds legit!

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Someone has reported this to authorities..RIGHT????????

[mikehiggins]

3. Sounds like a whole bunch of nominees for this years Darwin Awards. n/t

[Solly Mack]

4. Uh.

Damn

[dalton99a]

5. The next rev will be Genesis III - the church of bleach and ammonia

Ultimate synergy will be achieved

[dweller]

6. Jim Jones has risen...

ffs

✌🏼️

[lpbk2713]

7. Jim Bakker must be involved in this somehow.

...

[Talitha]

8. If they're Trumpanzees - hell, let 'em do it.

If these fools volunteer to cleanse the gene pool, who am I to argue?

[uriel1972]

9. If it wasn't for those who can't make the decision for themselves

I would be tempted to let them self select.

[mercuryblues]

10. If being dead is a cure

then this isn't false advertising. They even have a good defense...They didn't know praying over industrial bleach to purify it would still kill people. Worked for the traitor tots

[woodsprite]

11. I drank diluted bleach when I was a kid.

The poison control center had my mom feed me a full stick of butter and had me drink water. I remember it burnt my throat when I burped. Mom said I didn't get sick or vomit, but every time I burped I smelled like a freshly opened bleach bottle.

[Doreen]

12. This just makes me think about "What About Bob."

Death therapy.