Faith Healing Parents Sued by Dying Daugther

[badlander]

Why can't they just believe that their prayers will assist the medical practitioners ability to treat the disease or injury instead of that prayer can replace medical doctors? Without a good doctor I would not have seen the end of my first day.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by badlander

Why can't they just believe that their prayers will assist the medical practitioners ability to treat the disease or injury instead of that prayer can replace medical doctors? Without a good doctor I would not have seen the end of my first day.

You're being altogether too logical.

Most religious people do exactly as you suggest - find the best doctors they can *and* pray.

Don't ask me to explain why some people insist they should do without medical science, I think it is an insane idea.

The history of, for instance, smallpox vaccination does give us a clue. European preachers railed against it for the following "reasons" -

1) If you got smallpox, obviously god wanted you to die an excruciating death. Otherwise you wouldn't have gotten smallpox. So if you are a true christian, naturally you should refuse any means by which you could protect yourself from smallpox.

2) Smallpox vaccination was invented by muslim Turks, so obviously vaccination was a work of the devil, so you should die a saintly (and excruciating) death in order to prove how wonderful god is, in contrast to the muslims who survived, showing how evil satan is.

Or something like that. As I said, it's insane.

[skepticratic]

The state laws in Idaho need some serious revision. To not get your child the medical help they need is disgusting, and also says a lot about the parents. Now, I won't say they don't love their child, but I find it horrifying that after the prayer wasn't working, they didn't consider looking for some other solution. It's also an issue of education. Even those who do support and rely on medical science don't always understand what's happening. Doctors usually do a reasonably good job of explaining though. I guess getting people through the door is the hard part, which is a shame given how easily accessible information is these days.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by hljc

Still Jesus does heal even today ,....

Originally Posted by jeffbase40

Please explain to me what evidence would convince you then. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

How cruel of Jesus to heal some people, but not others and certainly not everyone.

[303Guy]

Originally Posted by TroutDude

The most depressing thing about fundamentalists is that they breed.

Your killing me!

I know I shouldn't laugh. It really is depressing.