Title: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: Sophus on March 26, 2010, 12:24:30 AM
Post by: Sophus on March 26, 2010, 12:24:30 AM
Read the Article Here. (http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=22753)
This is the problem with religion and this is an example of it being used as a form of child abuse. Reminds me of an old Voltaire quote:
This is the problem with religion and this is an example of it being used as a form of child abuse. Reminds me of an old Voltaire quote:
Quote from: "Voltaire"So long as being believe absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: G-Roll on March 26, 2010, 12:33:15 AM
Post by: G-Roll on March 26, 2010, 12:33:15 AM
didnt see that comming. i thought it would work... 
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: skwurll on March 26, 2010, 01:02:38 AM
Post by: skwurll on March 26, 2010, 01:02:38 AM
Faith healing = Letting your child die.
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: Kylyssa on March 26, 2010, 07:53:07 PM
Post by: Kylyssa on March 26, 2010, 07:53:07 PM
This makes my eyes wet. The poor kid didn't stand a chance and I'm sure death by UTI is not pleasant.
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: Ellainix on March 26, 2010, 08:59:08 PM
Post by: Ellainix on March 26, 2010, 08:59:08 PM
The evidence stacks in our favor. When will the atrocities end?
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: curiosityandthecat on March 26, 2010, 11:57:19 PM
Post by: curiosityandthecat on March 26, 2010, 11:57:19 PM
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Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: danger_Duncan on April 08, 2010, 10:30:43 AM
Post by: danger_Duncan on April 08, 2010, 10:30:43 AM
As if governments didn't have enough beaurocracy to contend with, now the question of how far you're allowed to let parents impose religion on kids is stretching into the realm of their personal safety.
Religious practice is one thing, and although I find it sad that aspects of it are imposed on minds that are too young to say anything against them, I understand it as a parallel to numerous other cultural practices and beliefs which are also made room for. People push their beliefs on their kids. Whether they carry those beliefs through into adulthood is up to them.
But this kid didn't have a choice in the event that ended his life. A reasoning, conscious person died.
Lame.
Religious practice is one thing, and although I find it sad that aspects of it are imposed on minds that are too young to say anything against them, I understand it as a parallel to numerous other cultural practices and beliefs which are also made room for. People push their beliefs on their kids. Whether they carry those beliefs through into adulthood is up to them.
But this kid didn't have a choice in the event that ended his life. A reasoning, conscious person died.
Lame.
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: karadan on April 08, 2010, 11:21:25 AM
Post by: karadan on April 08, 2010, 11:21:25 AM
It makes me wonder what kind of person that child might have grown up into. They might have eschewed the confines of their parents' enforced religious ideology to become a world-renowned 'insert profession here'.
It breaks my heart to see a life extinguished due to the superstition held by the parents of that very unfortunate kid.
It breaks my heart to see a life extinguished due to the superstition held by the parents of that very unfortunate kid.
Title: Re: Faith Healing Fails, kills 16 year old
Post by: dogsmycopilot on April 08, 2010, 06:05:22 PM
Post by: dogsmycopilot on April 08, 2010, 06:05:22 PM
This happens way too much. (http://www.childrenshealthcare.org/)