Stupid things religious people say

[Fake Messiah]

I've read this a few years ago and it still hurts me. I do wish that Christians read this and smarten up

When I was a resident training in ob-gyn, I witnessed the full-term birth of a baby with what’s known as Potter syndrome—a dramatic decrease of amniotic fluid in utero usually related to the failure of the kidneys to develop properly. Abortion would normally have been the recommended course, but this woman was a fundamentalist Christian, and she opted to bring the pregnancy to term because, as she told me, she was praying for a miracle. In the absence of amniotic fluid production, which in turn results in the absence of fetal lung development, this baby was born at thirty-nine weeks—a girl, as I recall—and I stood by and watched, in horror, as she died. She grunted and made efforts to inhale as the oxygen hunger built up in her body, but there was no lung capacity. Born at term, the baby could feel pain, and, even if she couldn’t interpret anything like self-consciousness, she must have felt all the anxiety and panic that would accompany suffocating to death. In this case, an absolute reverence for life led to a situation that, to my eyes, consisted of nothing less than pure cruelty."

- Dr. Willie Parker

This woman, like many other Christians, thought that God was testing her and that she just needs to pray more and believe more and that God will grant her a miracle she was promised since she was a child, resulting in a despicably inhumane act that could have been avoided.