Agreed. If I recall, the apostle Luke was a physician.
I hope he gets heavy time!
Ping.
And if I put on my coat to ward off the freezing weather, I’m putting the coat before God, who should be trusted to keep me warm.
“Geez Louise!”
I don’t know that that attitude is any better than his.
Poor teaching in all manner of groups and particularly in RELIGIOUS groups can lead to all manner of hideousness.
St Paul spoke of doctors as helpful. Luke was a Dr.
I can understand the father’s convictions. However, when prayer is obviously not moving the hand of God redemptively in a clearly healing fashion—THE LOVING THING TO DO IS CALL IN THE DOC.
However, given OThuga’s DEPOPULATION program ready for the big time . . . Docs will increasingly simply not be available. Prayer will become the only option for millions. The number of authentic healings will likely skyrocket.
When God is OUR ONLY OPTION . . . the contingencies are changed.
prayer as a murder weapon. OK.
Religious persecution is nothing new. I would not have done what he did, but if he was sincere, he had every right to do it. God gave him the child, the state did not.
Actually, I’m not so sure about this. When parents refuse medical treatment for children with deadly diseases, I certainly think that is wrong.
But it’s not always clear that a child should go to a hospital because they are sick.
The article doesn’t say how long this went on, but it does report: “The father testified that he thought Madeline had the flu or a fever, and several relatives and family friends said they also did not realize how sick she was.”
If the child had died because her parents didn’t realize how sick she was, probably nothing would have been said about it. But because they held a prayer session, apparently that attracted the attention of the prosecutors.
I don’t know the details. Maybe the father’s version of what happened was contradicted by the facts. But we don’t really know that.
When I get sick, or one of my kids gets sick with a fever, usually we put them to bed as long as the fever isn’t too bad or doesn’t go on too long. Sometimes we call the doctor. But it is a matter of judgment, and we don’t really have enough here to know that the parents’ judgment was wrong. For instance, if you have the flu or a stomach bug, you probably can’t eat for 24 hours. You have “no appetite.” That’s obviously different from a refusal to eat for a long time. Again, we aren’t really told what happened.
So, either the parents screwed up, or the prosecutor and jury were anti-Christian bigots. I’m unsure which.
I went to school with a lady who was raised Luthern.
She got swept up by the Pentacostal group and she hasn’t been the same since. I dropped her from my list of friends- knwn her since 1952.
Under Obamacare the only difference is that there will be no praying.
That poor girl died a very agonizing death. Before diabetes was called diabetes type 1 was widely known as a wasting away diease because when it struck children they wasted away. The pain in her final weeks must’ve been unbarable. I speak from experince with type 1 and what it feels like to have extremely high blood sugar and what can happen.
That poor girl died a very agonizing death. Before diabetes was called diabetes type 1 was widely known as a wasting away diease because when it struck children they wasted away. The pain in her final weeks must’ve been unbarable. I speak from experince with type 1 and what it feels like to have extremely high blood sugar and what can happen.
I find it highly disturbing that you so-called “conservatives” are gleeful over the sentence given to this father. Can you not understand that this is an attack on Christianity, not the father’s inaction?
If the father had not admitted to praying and instead said, “She seemed like she just had the flu,” as the other relatives stated, do you think his sentence would be the same? Would your thrill at his punishment be lessened?
Juvenile diabetes can come on very suddenly, literally in a day or two. Most parents would not recognize the symptoms.
Whenever anyone I know is sick, I first pray, then seek medical attention if warranted. If someone collapsed suddenly, I’d be praying as I dialed 911.
But now I know not to tell the authorities, since apparently prayer is a murder weapon.
/mark for later