Comments on: More Faith-Healing Death Panels

By: Squidlet

Squidlet — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:08:14 +0000

The thing is, they believe God will punish them if they seek medical attention. To their way of thinking, it’s better for them and their children to die than risk eternal damnation. After all, what’s a few days/weeks/months/years of suffering compared to eternal torture?

By: Paul Lundgren

Paul Lundgren — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:50:22 +0000

There's a petition out on the Net to remove religious exemptions for medical care from the new HR 3200 bill. I came by it by reading "Angie the Anti-Theist." The blogger, Angie Jackson, is a faith-healing cult survivor herself. Go read her. She's great.

By: AnonyMouse

AnonyMouse — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:52:37 +0000

I’m glad to see the fundies in Oregon getting attention, but I’d really like to see them start cracking down on these guys in other states. I belong(ed) to another sect of the Followers of Christ, and despite their repeated insistence that God has miraculously healed a number of their followers, it has been my observation that the largest portion of them die – usually of treatable causes.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:23:47 +0000

You don’t even have to get out of the first chapter of Genesis to know that this is wrong: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/1.html#28

I guess the church doesn’t need to bother with the Old Testament, since they’re Pentecostal (according to Wiki).

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:01:36 +0000

I always found it interesting that pro-lifers are more than willing to let the majority of their embryos die through IVF procedures as long as they just try to implant them. You HAVE to know that most embryos don’t implant, but that’s okay as long as you don’t destroy them! It’s really not that much different from this or abortion. And here it’s okay just because they prayed. It’s ridiculous.

By: jemand

jemand — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:33:58 +0000

how old were these mothers? Is this also a case of getting married incredibly young as well as denying medical care?

By: Amy G

Amy G — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:24:24 +0000

I’m not a big fan of doctors, but I do think that it’s necessary sometimes, especially when you’re dealing with such serious things as pregnancy. These stories are so sad. How do they know that God doesn’t want people to have medicine?

By: muggle

muggle — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:19:42 +0000

If it’s true, I’m amazed they didn’t lose half their congregation. The other half naively think the same will occur when they need the lawyers for the same reason. God will provide is akin to relying on him for medical care and birth control.

It’s time they start prosecuting for these negligent homicides. After all, freedom of religion doesn’t extend to human sacrifice.