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post Mar 29 2008, 08:57 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_..._s_death_prayer

We've been discussing this at my clan forums, so I thought I'd bring it up here.

What do you guys think about this? Were the parents responsible for their child dying from what modern medicine can easily deal with? Were they right to put her health to a test of faith?

Personally, I think the parents should be charged with neglect. I'll leave it to some of you to discuss whether faith really heals, but the fact is that modern medicine could have saved their daughter. She died needlessly.

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post Mar 29 2008, 12:53 PM
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I don't think they should be charged with murder because there was no intent, but they certainly should be charged with some degree of involuntary manslaughter.

I also feel that they are not competant to raise their other children until they get some help. They might refuse a psychiatrist but a good preacher could help them just as well.

A true theologian needs to explain to them that accepting God doesn't mean rejecting medicine or science. God gave us the brains to medicate and heal ourselves. He gave us free will. There is nothing sinful about insulin.

These people assumed that having faith meant they could ignore their problems and just pray for God to miracle them away. They have molded religion into their own personal mental crutch to help them avoid reality and responsibility.


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post Mar 29 2008, 08:45 PM
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i sure hope they get charged for something... i dont think murder as a charge is suitable but it is quite sad that they could neglect their child to this extreme... it said in a separate article that they believed their daughter died because 'they didnt have enough faith'.

I wonder if they still believe that this is the right course of action to take if one of their other children gets sick or anything like that in the future?

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post Mar 29 2008, 11:29 PM
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I agree, Gazer. This wasn't murder - there was no intent to kill their daughter. Manslaughter or neglect could both be applied in this case however. I assume they might have trouble making charges of the former stick, but without a doubt they can be charged with neglect.

And yep, Braidon. They made the right move in taking the other children away, at least until the parents are made to realise that faith can work alongside modern medicine.

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post Mar 29 2008, 11:52 PM
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If this isn't neglect I don't know what is.

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post Mar 30 2008, 12:49 AM
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This family had a physiological drive to believe in divine intervention. They believed in their God so utterly, that the thought of death was not considered as a possibility.

The children should be taken away, but beyond that nothing more should be done. They have lost all their children to death and the State, and their God has abandoned them in the hour of need. Little could be more painful.



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