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Reply to "manslaughter in faith-healing trial"

I don't see how people not getting help for a sick child because their religion states that it is wrong to do so and that prayer will cure the child isn't related to their religion? 

 

Saying an atheist who leaves a child in a hot car to die does it because of religion or that religion or lack of it is to blame is silly.  There is no atheist belief that says it is okay to kill your child or neglect one, either, or anything at all related to not being okay to keep them out of locked hot cars.  

 

This religion apparently does say that what they did is what their God wants them to do.  That isn't to say all religions would, of course, but in this case strict adherence to their religion was a direct case of the child's death.  Was there mental instability?  Most likely so, since someone who is sooo enmeshed in fear and adherence to doctrine over common sense and instinct isn't thinking clearly by most standards.  It makes me also think they might have been brought up this way and brainwashed into it, or perhaps even as adults.

 


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