Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.It was the parents' stupidity that caused this child's death. And they probably thought they were doing "god's will" or some such foolishness. Idiots!Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love (1973)
Yep. This was all the rage on the local Talk Radio circuit today.
One caller made a great analogy. He asked, “If they prayed to their COUCH or to a TREE in their yard, versus praying to God over this, would they be any less guilty of her death?”
I think not. However, I am a firm believer in the Power of Prayer, but in the sense that you pray for God to “guide the surgeons hand” or to release your loved one from horrible suffering, etc. God tends to work THROUGH others to help us, in my experience. :)