Parents pick prayer over doctors; girl dies

allabouteve wrote: »

The only problem I have with that statement is that it seems to be exclusively the case that when faith/god is involved as an excuse ( We thought we could rely on our faith....) that the maniacs get away with it.

If a parent said it was their position that the great invisible pink unicorn would help them if they telepathically asked often enough, they'd be locked up. These parents should be locked up.

Nutters are nutters, but religious nutters seem to have a get out of jail free card in parts of the States.

Sangre wrote: »

well i think its more the talking snake, burning bush, parted seas, wine to blood and resurrection that makes me question your intelligence.

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Christian and aethist in unending round and round battle of "can't prove jack ****" shocker.

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

This is just one of many stories you often hear about across the pond in a country of 300 million people. Tragic indeed, but not all that unusual in a land with so much diversity. For example, there are some religions practiced in the USA where substituting prayer for medical treatment is a part of their belief. One group is fairly large, called the Christian Scientists. Perhaps you may have heard of their widely circulated newspaper? The Christian Science Monitor?

Universal health care is at issue in the coming presidential election in November. The American Medical Association, with its powerful Washington lobby, is against it, while Obama and Clinton have mumbled something about it, and McCain takes the typical Republican party position that free markets, and not guaranteed health care, should be the course of the nation (i.e., profits over health care). Governator Arnie in California is actually trying to get the state to pay for health care of uninsured children, and seems to be serious about it, although he could never run for president being foreign born.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

she was a Jehovah Witness so I'd blame the USofA

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

VERY good point. Just what I was thinking when I read that no criminal action was going to be taken. Since religion seems to have a lot of "power" in the US. It would be a bit of a taboo to lock them up imo.


FCKED UP


BIG TIME.


This add's to the massive list of reason why I have a problem with religions and people that blindly follow them, and religion having power in a country.

keano_afc wrote: »

Wow, the anti-God brigade are out in force over this one! One Christian couple's stupidity and suddenly all Christians are to blame. I'm a Christian, so according to this thread I'm now a fanatic and dont believe in medical science. What rubbish. What these people did was terrible, and any Christian will agree I'm sure. Nobody in their right mind would deny life saving treatment to their child. What creationism has to do with this though I'll never know.

"This kind of thing is sickening, I'm still more píssed off at the video posted in the A&A forum though where kids are being deliberately taught that science is wrong, that dinosaurs lived with adam and eve etc and that the universe is in fact, only a few thousand years old.

Science isn't a belief, it's fcking fact. I would say the quicker these types learn this, the better, but I'd be much happier to let them believe what they want and let their idiocy and ignorance kill them off (hopefully painfully too)".

So unless I believe that a massive explosion created life I'm ignorant and deserve a painful death?

Sangre wrote: »

prove to me that there isnt an invisible pink unicorn standing beside you

if you cant then i guess it must be there.

Overheal wrote: »

moores tools of trade are cherry picking and misdirection. But the documentary provides at least some truth on the state of Americas healthcare system.