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Prayer may be healing, but...
I just.... *speechless*
        
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3/27/2008, 5:44 pm
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Doctor Delia
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Re: Prayer may be healing, but...
It's very easy to shirk your own responsibility and "put your life in God's hands." I see it all the time. What it is really is denial.
In fairness to her parents, I'm assuming they didn't realize how sick their daughter really was. Death is not necessarily violent or painful. She died, and then they couldn't face blaming themselves, so they blamed it on God.
If they did realize that she was fatally ill, and then neglect to take the little girl to a doctor, then they should be SHOT! They were not part of an organized religion like the Christian Scientists (some of whom believe in prayer over medical intervention); they just took it upon themselves to avoid proper medical care.
My guess is that they were hiding something, like sexual abuse; that's why they didn't take her to the doctor. If I were the investigating officer on this case, I would call in the Bureau of Child Welfare immediately, and if I were the District Attorney, I'd throw the book at them!
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3/27/2008, 6:39 pm
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Re: Prayer may be healing, but...
Even if you believe that prayer is healing, it shouldn't stop you from seeing a doctor to get additional help.
They shouldn't blame God, they should blame themselves, poor girl.
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3/28/2008, 12:08 am
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Tamlin
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Re: Prayer may be healing, but...
How awful. Talk abut a misreading of one's religion - as was noted by our good Doctor, these people weren't Christian Scientists...or Jehovah's Witnesses; they took this on themselves. I really wonder how a parent could not take what was obviously a worsening child to the doctor??
A spiritual attack? That's like saying my seizure required an exorcist, and not the Ativan hit that was given to me to stop it and the medication I'm on now to prevent it. Sheesh!!!
Now, placing your life in God's hands is appropriate...sometimes. Past these seizures I've done that, only because there are no answers and I have to keep living my life to its fullest, as much as possible. My faith helps a lot. But I also know I've had all the appropriate tests (and will continue to do so), I'm medicated, living at home so my parents keep an eye on the situation too...basically, I'm in little to no danger! (And, even if there's no known cause of the seizure(s), I am thanking any deity available that it wasn't something awful like a brain tumor!)
For this girl...if you believe in a God, you could say God makes us parents intending for us to care for our children. God can't do that directly - this is what *we* do. Obviously these people didn't believe in the "we are God's hands on earth" thing...poor, poor child. I don't know what to say.
Other than "I hope these parents are prosecuted appropriately." There is no way on God's earth (pun intended) that they should get away with this neglect! 
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Re: Prayer may be healing, but...
And here's another case *angry sigh*
Parents indicted in faith-healing death
--- "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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