Posted on 03/26/2008 12:05:07 PM PDT by FewsOrange
Beat you by almost 2 minutes.
I can’t believe custody actions haven’t been taken yet on the remaining children.
guess that’s what I get for having slow fingers, lol... :)
This is a unique case, but there are WAY too many delinquent parents in general.
Any idiot can have a baby...it just requires sex
“Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help”
Someday these cultists will learn that doing BOTH is much better than watching your child DIE!
You raise good points, PM. In all such matters, there are limits to what legislation and government intervention (or even intervention by private interested parties of good will) can accomplish. In truth, children are usually at the mercy of their parents, and if they have the bad luck to have lousy parents, it’s often a bit of a miracle if they make it through to healthy, sane adulthood.
“Giving the state the kind of power to remove the child before this girls death is risky. They should have to meet a very high standard”
I’d say a childs DEATH is pretty damned high, wouldn’t you?
That is the point I was trying to get at...this poor child was doomed. Other than contacting Child Welfare, no other real intervention could be made by anyone. Just heartbreaking.
“but what punishment can be justified?”
I believe they still send people to prison for child neglect leading to that childs’ death.
They are the useful idiots that government offices use as examples in order to increase their supervisory authority.
Like the snake people that get bit and die.
Which one is right?
Sorry you but are wrong. They killed her with neglect. If a parent doesn’t feed a child and it dies from starvation, then the parent killed the child. Neglect kills.
Depends on whether you are Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant, I guess.
Not sure why one has to be more right than the other since they still all say the same thing regardless of inclusion of the Apocrypha.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, was crucified and died for our sins, is risen and coming again. All who believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life with him.
And yet, so many preachers preach adamantly that their people NOT spend a dime on good wine (I think it’s because it takes dollars out of their pockets).
Oh, and some preachers in the “name it and claim it” crowd also hold their parishioners in their control and demand that they just “have faith” and aren’t saved if they don’t do what the preacher says. So, the pressure is great for people to toe the line. I assume they think they’re truly doing the Lord’s work.
I'm torn on this. At what point do we draw the line? In the UK, they are wanting to take kids away from fat parents, because of course, "obesity kills."
Exactly. So many people today are snowed by charlatans like Benny Hinn to expect God to do a big, flashy miracle of healing, instead of understanding that God most often works through the means that we have. It's a miracle enough that doctors are even able to play a part in the healing process.
Yes, there is. God won't help them if they get sick.
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He's using the apocryphal additions to the true Scriptures which are found in Catholic Bibles.
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