You’re using the no true Scotsman fallacy (look it up).

I have religious parents and a hemangioma … but I received proper care for it though.

These people just use religion to make excuses.

“I am absolutely certain that many people in this kind of community pray that their child may develop a medical condition so that they, too, can gain status in the community by not having it treated. People are shit.”

I am an ex-Follower who despises nearly everything about their death-cult, and this made me sick. You know nothing about these people. Yes, they are brainwashed. Yes, they neglect their children (among other things) in the name of God. But they do love their children, and when things like this happen it causes them tremendous pain. You have to understand their situation. They have been told from the time they were tiny children that if they took themselves or their loved ones to a doctor, they risked going to a lake of fire to be tortured for eternity. FOR. FUCKING. ETERNITY. Even if they don’t completely believe it, even if it kills them to watch their children and siblings and spouses suffer, they are not willing to risk that consequence.

Even if you take that away – even if you go with the ones who might be willing to risk it – there’s the social stigma. Taking the child to a doctor renders you a sinner – dirty, not worth being associated with. People avoid you, give you looks in church, warn their children about you.

That is wrong and selfish, and I would never say otherwise. But it is an extremely difficult choice and they would NEVER ask to be forced to make it.

All of the states where these people live – Oregon is NOT the only one that lets them get away with this neglect – need to illegalize religion-fueled child abuse. Their Bible tells them that they are relieved from guilt if the law requires them to seek medical attention. They’ll go down kicking and screaming, but they’ll be over it in a couple of generations.

People say things like “It was God’s will that we caught this problem in time,” or “Thank God for modern medicine so that our little girl won’t be permanently impaired,” all the time. They’re just less noteworthy.

I BLAME YOU for the ATHEIST DOCTOR who killed my dad with his arrogant medical malpractice.

The real problem here is that the Follower’s of Christ withhold necessary medical care in the Name of God.

Unless your doctor “killed in the name of ATHEISM”, your rage and grief are misplaced.

I suggest some grief counseling, and/or anger management classes. Good luck to you.

I BLAME ALL OF YOU.

Honestly, I get much more hostility by being against homebirth than I do for being Atheist. Again I must say, I am NOT sitting in judgment of other women who choose to birth at home. I wish they had more and better data available to them, but I respect their choices. I wish more people (particularly advocates) were willing to discuss this topic–but I get just as much (if not more) anger and refusal to hear my input as I do on the occasions I’ve tried to discuss evolution vs. “Intelligent Design.”

Also, and I don’t know if this matters, I am 7 months pregnant.

Freebirthing (by choice) on the other hand I am wholly against on the same page as the “god will heal our baby.”