Religious couple convicted of using prayer instead of modern medicine

[Underseer]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...he-child-died-and-now-theyre-going-to-prison/

The child had not been delivered in a hospital. She wasn’t attended to by doctors and nurses. The baby died amid the murmured prayers of friends and family. But Tonsfeldt knew — as everyone else in the county and many beyond all the way up to the state legislature — that this was a familiar occurrence with members of the Followers of Christ Church, a faith-healing sect numbering around 1,000 members.

Just a friendly reminder: your rights end at the tip of your nose. Your rights cease to be a right the moment they start impacting the rights of others, such as the right of infants to not die because their parents are too stupid to go to a hospital. In general, America gives far too much leeway to religion on a wide array of issues, but thankfully, we are starting to crack down on religions and denominations that harm children by refusing modern medical care.

 

[phands]

Yet again, religion kills. Their god would be a monster if he existed. As it is, it's down to these horrible sect leaders. They are accessories to murder.

 

[Underseer]

I posted this in a mixed discussion group, and the Christians immediately changed the subject and started a big argument about abortion.

I remember a time when most Christians would have joined me in expressing horror about people who try to use prayer instead of taking children to the hospital. What used to be considered extreme is now mainstream enough to be defended by most Christians.

 

[ideologyhunter]

The insistence by devout Jehovah's Witnesses on 'bloodless surgery' (because of their ban on blood transfusion, based on OT dietary law, as far as I can tell) has caused tens of thousands of deaths. (One internet source estimated 33,000 deaths since the teaching was enforced among the believers.) Most of these are the deaths of adults who sought out doctors who would agree to their requests -- I'll admit that I haven't read anecdotal accounts of parents who denied their minor children a transfusion, but it must be happening.

 

[Shake]

People like this should be neutered and locked up.

 

[steve_bank]

Old news. Christian Scientists have been prosecuted in the past for withholding medical treatment for children.