Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking

[CrazyAnglican]

Yep, I'm with the 99% of Christians who think modern medicine is a good thing (many of whom contribute to it's advancement by taking jobs in the health profession).

Gdeangel brings up a good point. Do wacked out people use other excuses to neglect their children?

[Xayath]

This thread represents the unflinching ignorance of the selfish.

the story or the responces

[mandalorian2298]

The illness was listed as a treatable form of diabetes.

Parents should be ordered henceforth to survive on nothing but pixie stix and Mountain Dew. The lord shall regulate their pancreas if they be worthy.

ROFL 'By their pancreas thou shall know them...'

[Juan_Bottom]

The illness was listed as a treatable form of diabetes.

Parents should be ordered henceforth to survive on nothing but pixie stix and Mountain Dew. The lord shall regulate their pancreas if they be worthy.

ROFL 'By their pancreas thou shall know them...'

[black elk speaks]

I didn't click the link, but a lot of times parents have rights to make these decisions when it's a particularly low likelihood of survival, such as advance stage cancer or something that requires massively invasive treatment such as bone marrow transplant and such. (The typical case today doesn't usually center on parents who opt for "holy" intervention, but instead on using alternative medicines... like atheists hippies giving their kid an herbal Chinese remedy instead of sending them for chemo, and the kid dies.)

If we're talking about appendicitis, the parents should be given poison so they can waste away like their child in complete agony. Jail is too good for these imbeciles (both the God nuts and the hippies) - why should the American taxpayer support them to enjoy the ideal monastic/transcendental lifestyle in isolation from the world. It's got to be death or the labor camp IMHO.

i don't think that you can argue neglect. true, they chose poorly to rely on faith healing. but it sounded to me that they were praying really hard. to me, neglect would be if they were saying, "hold on honey, we will pray or take you to the hospital after Oprha."

[PLAYER57832]

That was my question, since she was a child who couldn't make the decision on her own.

In Britain doctors can overule parents in cases involving children, in circumstances such as you have presented a case of manslaughter could be brought.

Courts in the US can also. They put the child into court custody and appoint a medical guardian, but judges vary in their willingness to overrule parents. Generally the child's life or such have to be in danger. Also, someone has to know in advance, not always possible since these kids are usually not in any sort of organized institution.

[jonesthecurl]

Actually its proof of evolution. They were too stupid t take their offspring to a doctor when she was sick. If they neglect their other kids in the same way, their genetic strain could be wiped out.

[Juan_Bottom]

That's funny.... but a little girl died......
Because her parents didn't have enough faith(bible code for insurance?)....


Also what's the deal, they didn't even belong to a church?

[jonesthecurl]

I know it's funny in a macabre way, but it's also true.

I expect this story will end up in the Darwin Awards .

[Juan_Bottom]

Don't you have to kill yourself to get that award?

I wonder how the family coffee shop is doing?

[daddy1gringo]

Yep, I'm with the 99% of Christians who think modern medicine is a good thing (many of whom contribute to it's advancement by taking jobs in the health profession).

Gdeangel brings up a good point. Do wacked out people use other excuses to neglect their children?

^What he said.^ These people are not representative of Christians; not even of "Bible bashers" like me who believe that the Bible is true, and that God, and one's relationship to Him, matters. This just makes me want to weep, or scream, or both.