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In a nutshell, the couple belong to a church that preaches faith healing
Their first child died of treatable pneumonia
They're put on probation
While they're on probation their second child contracts pneumonia, again they pray instead of taking child to hospital
Child dies
This time they're sent to prison.
They should have been sent the first.
If anyone wants absolute proof prayer does NOT cure physical illnesses look no further than this. But Christians blithely go on believing God will cure their sick children if they just pray.
What astonishes me is how prevalent the belief is in face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Do Christians not read their own Bible?????
As many pointed out to me in my other thread on James 5:14-15 God does NOT promise physical healing ANYEWHERE in the Bible. So why do the vast majority of Christians believe God does?
People die refusing medical treatment in the group I was raised in. I actually can understand how it happens. Sometimes I feel like I was part of a really unethical social experiment. I would hate to be in anyone's shoes that woke up after allowing their children to suffer or die.
Sometimes it almost seems like the words Christianity and stupidity could be used interchangeably. Like this Christian couple:
In a nutshell, the couple belong to a church that preaches faith healing
Their first child died of treatable pneumonia
They're put on probation
While they're on probation their second child contracts pneumonia, again they pray instead of taking child to hospital
Child dies
This time they're sent to prison.
They should have been sent the first.
If anyone wants absolute proof prayer does NOT cure physical illnesses look no further than this. But Christians blithely go on believing God will cure their sick children if they just pray.
What astonishes me is how prevalent the belief is in face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Do Christians not read their own Bible?????
As many pointed out to me in my other thread on James 5:14-15 God does NOT promise physical healing ANYEWHERE in the Bible. So why do the vast majority of Christians believe God does?
There is nothing about Christianity that tells people to refuse medical treatment. Unless you can quote me chapter and verse that says it, don't blame the religion for the idiots that claim it any more than you want me to blame atheism for Stalin.
People die refusing medical treatment in the group I was raised in. I actually can understand how it happens. Sometimes I feel like I was part of a really unethical social experiment. I would hate to be in anyone's shoes that woke up after allowing their children to suffer or die.
The lack of simple comprehension in this couple is what baffles me. You could shoot their first kid with a gun right in front of them and if you aimed the gun at their second child it still wouldn't register in their minds that if you pulled the trigger their second child would die as well. I just cannot comprehend the mentality that drives people like this. This is a perfect example of the power of religious indoctrination. I don't think there is any greater power in the world than religious indoctrination, not even love, because people who have been religiously indoctrinated cannot be reasoned with. No amount of proof contrary to their religious beliefs will persuade them. All a judge can do is lock them up. Sterilization wouldn't be a bad idea either.
There is nothing about Christianity that tells people to refuse medical treatment. Unless you can quote me chapter and verse that says it, don't blame the religion for the idiots that claim it any more than you want me to blame atheism for Stalin.
It is brainwashing.
A Fundamentalist Ideologue Christian extremist sect. Those poor babies. The died with labored breath.
They are a black eye on Christianity as are other cult movements such as Quiverfull, and polygamous cults that have attached themselves to Christianity.
A Fundamentalist Ideologue Christian extremist sect. Those poor babies. The died with labored breath.
They are a black eye on Christianity as are other cult movements such as Quiverfull, and polygamous cults that have attached themselves to Christianity.
Those poor babies.
This has nothing to do with Biblical Christianity. You can't blame Christianity for that any more than you can tell Mormons they are the reason for Warren Jeffs. But, of course, I get called a "hater" if I dare to suggest someone isn't a Christian.
The pastor or preacher or whatever his title is should be thrown in prison. Anyone who preaches that is a monster. The parents, while stupid, were still very much victims in this horrible situation.
This has nothing to do with Biblical Christianity. You can't blame Christianity for that any more than you can tell Mormons they are the reason for Warren Jeffs. But, of course, I get called a "hater" if I dare to suggest someone isn't a Christian.
Do you blame Islam for Muslim extremism?
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