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(February 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Negligent murder is still murder.
"Stop trampling our religious freedom!"
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(February 25, 2015 at 3:41 pm)FreeTony Wrote: You're not alone, over here in the UK we will soon be embracing the power of astrology to heal our sick children if this guy has his way:
Will we bollocks. The NHS has its fault but we're not yet taking medical advice from a tory mp!
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Maybe I can't remove my brain from this whole thing (which evidently is required), but I wonder how many of these kids that are old enough know they're dying are wondering how to emancipate themselves so they can, you know, not die?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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February 26, 2015 at 5:52 am (This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 5:52 am by robvalue.)
If someone really is prepared to murder their kid, can we please label them mentally ill? Whether it's technically the case or not, what's the difference? Fuck me. Religion is socially acceptable delusion.
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(February 26, 2015 at 5:52 am)robvalue Wrote: If someone really is prepared to murder their kid, can we please label them mentally ill? Whether it's technically the case or not, what's the difference? Fuck me. Religion is socially acceptable delusion.
And if they want to be absolved of that label, they can just produce the god they think exists, and the problem is solved. But they can't pretend that they're in some special category where "conspires to allow a child to die at the behest of an invisible entity" isn't a symptom of mental illness.
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The fact that retard politicians get elected in the first place just shows how many dummies there are in the world who vote them into office. It seems that a sizable number of people have IQs of less than 40.
(February 25, 2015 at 12:40 pm)Esquilax Wrote: In Idaho, a-republican, of course- politician is attempting to defend faith healing in the same inept way that people generally do try to defend the practice of neglecting children to death. Only this time, even the pretense that faith healing might work has been dismissed entirely, leaving representative Christy Perry to say the most insane things to defend the indefensible:
Quote:“Children do die,” Perry said. “I’m not trying to sound callous, but (reformers) want to act as if death is an anomaly. But it’s not — it’s a way of life.”
She follows it up with the same "the kids are with god so it's okay!" crap that some of the theists around here say when confronted with this stuff, but what really sticks out to me is that there's no longer this idea that faith "healing" actually works, just that parents should have the right to employ obviously ineffective "methods" (because I don't think we can really call doing nothing an action) without taking responsibility for the results. They fully accept that this will inevitably lead to the deaths of children, but are arguing that that's okay, because god.
What kind of fucking monster do you have to be, to seriously offer that argument in a public square?
This shit literally makes me sick to my stomach. Sometimes I really wish I believed in hell. It would be full of these fucktards.