Faith-healing choice hurt child

[Zen Badger]

That also goes for homeopathy. Works about as well as faith healing. (Actually, homeopathy does have documentable successes that faith healing does not. For example, homeopathic remedies will revive wilting plants and slake thirst. Homeopathic remedies will resolve dehydration.)

But homeopathic remedies are full of dihydrogenous monoxide.

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah, if I were a bit more hard-hearted, I'd say give them the freedom to let their kids die. It's just Darwinism at work. If they're stupid enough to not visit a doctor when they're deathly ill, then that helps out the gene pool. The more of them that die off, the better.

But, these are children who don't know any better and have been brainwashed by their parents into believing that all illnesses can be cured by prayer. They don't understand why they don't get better.

It's kind of like seat belt laws. I don't care if adults don't want to wear them, and think that laws making it mandatory should be repealed. However, for minor children I think the laws should be mandatory since they often don't know any better.

[Zenith]

Given enough time, one might see evolutionary pressures come into play. Those that rely on "faith healing" will in time have less children to pass on their genes than those who do not. (If you ascribe to "Social Darwinism," then they will have less children to pass on their beliefs, faiths, and values, as well.)

That also goes for homeopathy. Works about as well as faith healing. (Actually, homeopathy does have documentable successes that faith healing does not. For example, homeopathic remedies will revive wilting plants and slake thirst. Homeopathic remedies will resolve dehydration.)

Burning them at the steak seems a waste of a good steak. Oh, you wrote "stake." It's a waste of a good stake, too.

I don't agree with this evolution you say. As I don't believe that an atheist is more evolved than a theist: If you get an atheist's child and indoctrinate him in a fanatical religious group, I don't think you would notice any important difference between this child and other children. Also, christiniaty has fallen in europe (from the catholic sovereignty, which was quite fanatical) because of different factors, things that allowed people to doubt their religion and the authority imposed on them and made them desire freedom. The rising of protestantism also helped a lot (produced great disunion within the catholic church, as the pope stopped pulling all strings) - it was not evolution as there were events, psychological things, etc.. So I believe that the only things that can make the children of a fanatical religious group leave from it are: diverse opinions within the group, sawing of doubt in it, big failures of religious authorities, seeing a better alternative (many children that are indoctrinated in a fanatical religious group don't see anything else, so they chose the only thing they have ever seen), education in schools, and other things.

So rather than leaving the children of idiot indoctrinated people die in the name of evolution, I think education and even law can prevent their death and a good education can give them the possibility to leave the doctrine of their parents and can allow them to become wise men.