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Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
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Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
Quote:Oregon Court Upholds Convictions of Couple Who Sought 'Faith Healing' Instead of Doctor for Baby

The Oregon Supreme Court has upheld the 2011 manslaughter convictions of a faith-healing couple whose premature baby died after a homebirth when they didn’t seek medical treatment.

http://jezebel.com/oregon-court-upholds-...socialflow
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I can't wait to see what the 'pro-life' crowd has to say about this.  Generally they seem to lose all interest at the moment of birth.
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(October 14, 2015 at 8:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I can't wait to see what the 'pro-life' crowd has to say about this.  Generally they seem to lose all interest at the moment of birth.

Once you are  born they don't give a fuck. You can be like hey this life is shit fuck it and jump off a cliff.. wait there is that crowed yelling
you will go to hell.
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I'm still pissed about the case of such "parents" who allowed not one, but two of their kids to die of easily treatable maladies.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
For fuck's sake.
Enough with the goddamn olive oil, already.

Faith healing is one of the most frustrating and sickening aspects of religious belief. The practice is dangerously reckless, tragic, and downright criminal much of the time. I happen to tolerate religious stupidity quite well, but I'm forced to speak up when I hear about ridiculous parents substituting faith-healing and/or prayer for legitimate medical treatment.

Even as a believer, I was deeply troubled by the faith-healings performed at my church. The irony of the church being located across the street from a hospital was never lost on me.
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RE: Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
(October 14, 2015 at 9:49 pm)Thena323 Wrote: For fuck's sake.
Enough with the goddamn olive oil, already.

Faith healing is one of the most frustrating and sickening aspects of religious belief. The practice is dangerously reckless, tragic, and downright criminal much of the time. I happen to tolerate religious stupidity quite well, but I'm forced to speak up when I hear about ridiculous parents substituting faith-healing and/or prayer for legitimate medical treatment.

Even as a believer, I was deeply troubled by the faith-healings performed at my church. The irony of the church being located across the street from a hospital was never lost on me.

If it wasn't for science giving us plentiful medical advances just imagine laying in bed with a sickness that could be cured with 
over the counter medications and then suffering because you know they are praying and its not working. Faith and praying doesn't 
cure shit.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today. 


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RE: Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
(October 14, 2015 at 9:49 pm)Thena323 Wrote: For fuck's sake.
Enough with the goddamn olive oil, already.

Faith healing is one of the most frustrating and sickening aspects of religious belief. The practice is dangerously reckless, tragic, and downright criminal much of the time. I happen to tolerate religious stupidity quite well, but I'm forced to speak up when I hear about ridiculous parents substituting faith-healing and/or prayer for legitimate medical treatment.

Even as a believer, I was deeply troubled by the faith-healings performed at my church. The irony of the church being located across the street from a hospital was never lost on me.

Let's not forget the 'faith healer" who bilked millions out of people, and likely ruined hundreds of lives with his "healing" who rushed himself to hospital when he had heart problems.

Can't remember his name.

Why not heal himself?  That's faith for you...
Dying to live, living to die.
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(October 14, 2015 at 9:54 pm)Beccs Wrote: Let's not forget the 'faith healer" who bilked millions out of people, and likely ruined hundreds of lives with his "healing" who rushed himself to hospital when he had heart problems.
Whoever he is, he wasn't the first to do so and he won't be the last. The people at the top know that shit doesn't work.
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RE: Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
(October 14, 2015 at 9:54 pm)Beccs Wrote:
(October 14, 2015 at 9:49 pm)Thena323 Wrote: For fuck's sake.
Enough with the goddamn olive oil, already.

Faith healing is one of the most frustrating and sickening aspects of religious belief. The practice is dangerously reckless, tragic, and downright criminal much of the time. I happen to tolerate religious stupidity quite well, but I'm forced to speak up when I hear about ridiculous parents substituting faith-healing and/or prayer for legitimate medical treatment.

Even as a believer, I was deeply troubled by the faith-healings performed at my church. The irony of the church being located across the street from a hospital was never lost on me.

Let's not forget the 'faith healer" who bilked millions out of people, and likely ruined hundreds of lives with his "healing" who rushed himself to hospital when he had heart problems.

Can't remember his name.

Why not heal himself?  That's faith for you...

Are you thinking of Benny Hinn?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...-problems/

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Charged for "faith healing" over medical care
(October 14, 2015 at 8:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I can't wait to see what the 'pro-life' crowd has to say about this.  Generally they seem to lose all interest at the moment of birth.

To be fair, I'm only slightly different in that I don't much care before either.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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