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2nd child of Pa. couple dies after only praying
AP Yahoo ^ | 4/23/13 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARYCLAIRE DALE

Posted on 04/23/2013 10:36:56 AM PDT by OKRA2012

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A couple serving probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor could face new charges now that another son has died.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible belong to a fundamentalist Christian church that believes in faith healing. They lost their 8-month-old son, Brandon, last week after he suffered from diarrhea and breathing problems for at least a week, and stopped eating. Four years ago, another son died from bacterial pneumonia.

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To: Gene Eric

I admit its a thorny question: at what point is government intervention legitimate? On the other hand, what society can allow parents to refuse medical treatment to seriously ill children? What kind of society lets them cite the constitutional protection of religion to do this? If Religious liberty can cited for this, then why not invoke it for, say, bombing a crowded public street in Boston?

I don’t think it has anything to do with the right to bear arms.


121 posted on 04/24/2013 7:15:01 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: maica

From my grandmother’s Catholic Bible.


122 posted on 04/24/2013 10:19:20 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs
RE: There used to be an inscription on Catholic Bibles, one I didn’t particularly agree with in general, but it was printed there nonetheless:

“Leave not the reading of the Scriptures to the ignorant, lest they rest their own destruction.”

For the record, I have just checked my great-grandparents Bible, published 1874, imprimatur Archbishop of Philadelphia, and the Bible my grandfather gave my grandmother for their engagement, imprimatur Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore in 1890.

Neither on has the phrase you quote.

Just for the record of this thread.

123 posted on 04/25/2013 6:35:06 AM PDT by maica (Welcome to post-rational America.)
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To: CityCenter; cuban leaf

I asked if he thought parents’ rule was so absolute that they could force an underaged daughter to marry and got no reply, which is telling in itself.


124 posted on 04/26/2013 10:55:48 AM PDT by GSD Lover
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To: cuban leaf

glad you werent my parent so that I might have had to die on behalf of your pronciples!


125 posted on 04/26/2013 10:59:52 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: cajungirl

glad you werent my parent so that I might have had to die on behalf of your pronciples!


I have no idea what part of my post would generate such a response from someone. You’ll have to be more specific about what part concerned you. My children are all adults and every single one of them is doing very well.


126 posted on 04/26/2013 11:47:07 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: GSD Lover

I asked if he thought parents’ rule was so absolute that they could force an underaged daughter to marry and got no reply, which is telling in itself.


:)

What it “tells” is that I missed the post. The answer to your question is, yes, I believe parents should be allowed to do that. I wouldn’t. I don’t think it is the correct course of action, but it is something that I think is none of my business.

The very phrase “underage” is a subjective word. Kinda like the word “safe”. And not to be too redundant, it is also a matter of personal opinion. I can also find no Biblical scripture that calls doing such a thing a sin.


127 posted on 04/26/2013 11:55:06 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

Ahhh, a member of the Christian Talaban, huh? Yet, you paint yourself as a libertarian.

HA


128 posted on 04/26/2013 12:20:20 PM PDT by GSD Lover
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To: GSD Lover

Ahhh, a member of the Christian Talaban, huh? Yet, you paint yourself as a libertarian.


Sorry. You’ll have to explain what remark prompted you to come to that conclusion and justify why it leads there.


129 posted on 04/26/2013 12:31:55 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf; CityCenter

“The answer to your question is, yes, I believe parents should be allowed to do that.[force their underage girls to marry.- - gsdlover] I wouldn’t. I don’t think it is the correct course of action, but it is something that I think is none of my business.”

There are a lot of things that are none of our business, yet we have rules against them - like murder and rape because they infringe on another’s rights. Yet, you take the Taliban position of supporting a parent’s right - make that a man’s right - to force a child to marry. You totally disregard the right of the young woman. As a Christian, you realize that if forced to marry, then her only option “out” is divorce. Not a good thing. Hey, I’m sure not all members of the Taliban make their daughters marry someone against their will, but you can bet they all support the right to do so.

In this country, you are like the person who says “I’m personally opposed to abortion, but believe it should be legal for 9 months of pregnancy.”

You either support it or you don’t. You do.

Very Taliban-ish.


130 posted on 04/26/2013 12:49:10 PM PDT by GSD Lover
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To: GSD Lover

To say it is “none of our business” is a ridiculous position. It makes slaves of children and denies them their individual, God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There is a point at which government interference into the lives of families is intolerable, but there is also a point at which parental abuse is also intolerable. The wise person can see that there must be a balance and when we err to far in one direction or another we must make corrections.

To carry a principle to the point of allowing it to cause death of innocents makes an “ass” of being a principled person.


131 posted on 04/26/2013 12:57:26 PM PDT by CityCenter (No matter how good your PR is, you can't outsmart the truth.)
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To: GSD Lover

As a Christian, you realize that if forced to marry, then her only option “out” is divorce.


Not according to the Bible.


132 posted on 04/28/2013 4:40:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: GSD Lover

You either support it or you don’t. You do.


Watch Fiddler on the Roof. No Taliban there. ;-)

Some things are simpler than they appear while others are more complex, but they all come down to core principles.

I’m not talking about the constitution here. I’m talking about the bible’s instruction to believers. And it supersedes and precedes the constitution.

Parents’ rights, as regarding their own children, used to be broad. One logical reason is that parents, by their very nature, tend to look out for the benefit of their child.

The progressive American culture has been on a crusade to limit those rights for a very long time. It’s gotten us to the complaints most of us have here regarding our rights to even use corporal punishment. You and I were both brainwashed to see it as a good thing. I’ve stepped away from american culture (dumped TV in 1997) and returned the best I can to a biblical world view. My position is based on what the bible teaches about how we should raise our children and how we should serve the Lord. I would not choose who my child should marry, but under different circumstances I most certainly would.

And I think, beginning with the fallout from the 60’s, we’ve demonstrated that parents can choose better mates for their kids than the hormone ravaged kids can. Just sayin’.

Bottom line: I believe you come from an American humanist culture perspective and I come from a biblical perspective.


133 posted on 04/28/2013 4:50:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: stormer

When parents demonstrate that they do not have the emotional and intellectual wherewithal to tend to their children’s well-being (as these two have done), then it is the duty of the state to act in loco parentis.


And who chooses when parents have crossed that line? And by what authority?


134 posted on 04/28/2013 6:00:52 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: allmendream

Well I consider it murder for a parent to allow their child to die from an easily curable malady.


Depends on the intent of the one responsible for the death. For something to be murder, a person has to have died and the person who caused it had to be acting with the goal that the person died.

It’s why the commandment, translated to English is “you shall not commit murder” rather than “you shall not kill”.


135 posted on 04/28/2013 6:03:11 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

Does your biblical perspective allow for the keeping of human slaves?

Yes or no.


136 posted on 04/28/2013 6:04:00 AM PDT by GSD Lover
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To: Psiman

the wack-a-loons give all Christians a bad name


I’ve argued religion with a lot of “atheists” on the internet. The only ones they think are NOT wack-a-loons are the ones that are Christian in name only.

On a related note, I shut them down when I tell them the bible does not preach that those that do not accept Jesus go to eternal suffering. It turns out that is one of their main objections to Christianity, even though it is not biblical teaching.


137 posted on 04/28/2013 6:06:49 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Linda Frances

Really. I have never heard of a Christian church that teaches not to get medical care, but just to believe.


Well, there are a lot of Churches out there that claim to be Christian that teach all sorts of stuff. One even teaches that, like Jesus, Mary was perfect. And then there are organizations like the KKK that claim to be Christian. It’s all just men trying to invoke the power of God to support their own particular beliefs, even though His Word does not support that belief.


138 posted on 04/28/2013 6:10:35 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: tsomer

I admit its a thorny question: at what point is government intervention legitimate? On the other hand, what society can allow parents to refuse medical treatment to seriously ill children? What kind of society lets them cite the constitutional protection of religion to do this? If Religious liberty can cited for this, then why not invoke it for, say, bombing a crowded public street in Boston?


Active vs passive. One has the right to watch a man get mugged and not take action. In fact, it happens all the time. Not that it’s right, but the government does not require one to help, though your neighbors might shun you if you could have easily prevented it.

However, if you are the mugger it is a different story.


139 posted on 04/28/2013 6:13:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Neglect is still inaction.


If they honestly thought the Lord’s will would prevail and prayed for it, it was not neglect in their minds. In fact, it could have been exactly the opposite, though I disagree with them.


140 posted on 04/28/2013 6:15:10 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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