[stuartcr]

seriously? You don’t have a problem with people not bringing their children to a doctor? Even parents in the most primitive parts of south america and africa will bring their kids to a doctor.

[cuban leaf]

You don’t have a problem with people not bringing their children to a doctor?

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I have a problem with a LOT of stuff people do regarding the care of their children. But it is none of my business and I am not God. Children are God given. How responsibly the parents handle that is their choice, not mind. Who am I to presume that my sensibilities are the right ones? However, in clearcut situations, the parents’ authority must be usurped by someone else. But it must cross a clear line. Since I believe God heals miraculously, I don’t want to insert my “sensibilities” about doctors, God and healing between a parent and their children.

I see it as meddlin in the lives of others.

[henkster]

Don’t give the kids food; just pray for them?

Don’t give them water; just pray for them?

Don’t give them warm winter clothing; just pray for them?

I set the bar a lot higher than most liberals, but I would see it as EVERY parent’s responsibility to provide their children with food, shelter and medical care. If they fail, they need to be held accountable.

Seems to me these two never got as far in their Bible reading as James 2:14-17.

14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

I know it’s kind of at the end of the book and they don’t exactly look like “people of letters,” but I’d have hoped somebody would have shared this passage with them.