Oregon City faith healers say son's death was not a crime

[Amphora]

A friend of mine posted this on facebook:

http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascount...age_f.html

IMO this shouldn't have happened. But to these parents they were just following their faith.

This is sickening and a shameful site to see.

[theVOID]

Another case of bullshit masquerading as medicine getting people killed. The parent's deserve the charge of negligent homicide regardless of their beliefs.

[binny]

This is the same group of nut cases that killed a little girl last year. The Dad got a slap on the wrist. These people sicken me and should be stopped. They have the highest child mortality rate in the state of Oregon. Their cemetery is littered with dead children all in the name of faith. Sickening.

[theVOID]

This is the same group of nut cases that killed a little girl last year. The Dad got a slap on the wrist. These people sicken me and should be stopped. They have the highest child mortality rate in the state of Oregon. Their cemetery is littered with dead children all in the name of faith. Sickening.

Couldn't have said it any better.

[Minimalist]

Another case of bullshit masquerading as medicine getting people killed. The parent's deserve the charge of negligent homicide regardless of their beliefs.

I only disagree with the choice of the charge. "Depraved Indifference" seems to fit especially in light of previous instances where god apparently told these fuckheads to get lost.

[Edwardo Piet]

It's one thing to believe in crazy bullshit so-called medicine that doesn't actually work, but I can't for the life of me understand why this so often seems to cause people to also reject and even slag off scientific medicine which so obviously does really work. It's not just drawing away from science but also even attacking it.

EvF

[chatpilot]

How many more innocent children have to die till the courts recognize that when it comes to faith healing or as I like to call it faith killing the constitution does not apply? It's one thing to believe whatever you want and drag your whole family down with you in those beliefs, but when those beliefs turn deadly to the point of senseless deaths due to lack of medical treatment then it becomes in my view a criminally negligent act. People who practice faith healing no matter what religion you belong to that results in the death of anyone should be put in jail and charged with murder as well.

[Minimalist]

It's one thing to believe in crazy bullshit so-called medicine that doesn't actually work, but I can't for the life of me understand why this so often seems to cause people to also reject and even slag off scientific medicine which so obviously does really work. It's not just drawing away from science but also even attacking it.

EvF

I once had a fascinating discussion with a batshit crazy fundie who wanted creationism taught in schools. The question put to her was "why is that your line in the sand?" She was a nurse but was not holding out for teaching "driving out demons" in medical school. Yet her bible was far more insistent that disease could be cured by driving out demons than it was about her myopic view of creation which is reliant on man-made calculations. The answer ultimately seemed to vindicate Dawkins' "God of the Gaps" hypothesis in that medical science had proven its value but she did not understand astrophysics so god must have done it.

Nuts come in various shades but the fuckers in this story kill people.

[Edwardo Piet]

The Bible is - at least overall, and certainly in the particularly horrific bits - shit to say the least, amen.

EvF

[fr0d0]

Amen.

What?