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HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
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HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
This happening in England!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729684

Quote:The Children's HIV Association surveyed 19 doctors and health professionals working with babies and children in England; its members had reported hearing anecdotal evidence of HIV patients deciding to stop taking their anti-retroviral drugs because their pastors had told them to do so.

Among 10 doctors who said they had encountered the problem in the last five years, 29 of their patients had reported being put under pressure to stop taking medicine and at least 11 had done so.

Only anecdotal so would need validation.



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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
The ignorance of religion persists, so long as the world continues to spin it seems.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
Men who are trusted as authority figures posing to know more about serious medical matters than medical experts. Children put at dire risk as a result. If true, then deeply shocking but sadly not unsurprising (as contradictory as that sounds).

At least the results are recognised as being a cause for alarm. In some other country, that advice might be considered normal enough to be not even worth reporting.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
For what it's worth, Jack T. Chick released a tract a few years ago set in an AIDS ward, (presumably in the early 1980s since it's exclusively populated by gay men, either that or Jack's reclusiveness is working against him), and something like this happens; a nurse harasses her charges in an AIDS ward and gets two of them to convert to Christianity. About the only reason she doesn't ask them to give up their meds is because I don't even think Jack even knows that AIDS and HIV are treatable now.
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Quote:Later, after his mother had experienced what he believed was a miracle cure, Oliver stopped taking his medication, and his condition quickly deteriorated.

He has since gone back on his medication and said he believed he needed to combine his drugs with his belief in faith healing.


<sigh> Would the world be so much worse off if this fool did not live to reproduce?
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
The world would be even better off if the Pentecostal ministers all took up residences deep inside landfills.
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Now I'm really really pissed off.
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
There's a word for desperately ill people who rely on God in place of medical science. We call them 'corpses'.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'
(August 17, 2013 at 4:50 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: This happening in England!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729684

Quote:The Children's HIV Association surveyed 19 doctors and health professionals working with babies and children in England; its members had reported hearing anecdotal evidence of HIV patients deciding to stop taking their anti-retroviral drugs because their pastors had told them to do so.

Among 10 doctors who said they had encountered the problem in the last five years, 29 of their patients had reported being put under pressure to stop taking medicine and at least 11 had done so.

Only anecdotal so would need validation.

Did it work for any of them, or did you just assume it didn't?
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The article does not mention if it worked for any of them, probably because it didn't. And a miracle cure for HIV? Gawd if that shit were legit the media would be exploding.
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