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Another wonderful example of the usefulness of prayer.

- Mom of dead girl: "Sickness was test of faith."

In short:


One can't help think that with parents this reckless, maybe it was a good thing she got out early.

Here's another story of a 15 month old who suffered a similar fate, submitted by Pixel Mine:

- Dad Didn't "Believe In Doctors"

So what say ye?

It sickens me that there are parents out there who are like them and basically put their religion/beliefs ahead of the safety and well-being of their own children. I mean, how delusional do you have to be to believe that sitting there and praying for someone to get better without doing anything is going to heal them.

What's even worse about this situation is that even after losing their child and being convicted of 2nd degree homicide, they still believe they are in the right.

This reminds me of a story my father was telling me a few days ago. This one doesn't involve death, but still kinda shows the point that some people are more than willing to put their own religion/beliefs ahead of their own children.

My Dad works on cars for a living and sometimes he ends up getting a job that's too big for him and as such he has a helper who assists him in his job. Well one day my Dad and a few of the other guys in the shop got talking about religion and during the conversation my Dad's helper brought up a story about what his parents did to him back when he was a teenager. Basically, he was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness and when he became a teenager, he began to act like any normal teenage male would. Well, not knowing what to do, his parents, partially on the advice of their priest, simply kicked him out of the house and disowned him. Yeah, that's right, at age 15, his parents basically threw him out on the street with nothing but the clothes on his back and told him to never come back. He later moved in with his uncle, who ended up taking him in. Even though this didn't involve someone dying, it still illustrates the point that there are people out there who are willing to put their own religious beliefs above everything else, including their own children.

Shouldn't they all take this as proof that praying doesn't work?

I'm probably not the healthiest person for getting so much amusement out of this. Obviously this is horrible, disgusting, and unfortunate, but I can't help but find some humor in it.

What they did is not only unethical, but it goes against all common sense! Those kind of brainwashed zombies make me question my already meagre faith in humankind.

There was this one bit that George Carlin did, where he talked about praying. "Suppose your prayers aren't answered. Well, it's god's will, thy will be done. Fine. But if it's god's will and he's gonna do what he wants to in the first place, why the ******** bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me!" Ah, George was a genius. Because it's true! Why bother praying? God supposedly already has his divine plan laid out, so you can't do s**t by praying!

Somewhat Relevant:

My mother once told me a story about a girl she knew while growing up. The girl was part of a close-knit Christian community, but I can't remember what denomination. She was severely schizophrenic and ordered into a mental hospital.

While being treated (this term is used loosely because it was psychiatry from about forty or so years ago), her family and fellow members would visit her, and lay their hands on her in an attempt to exorcise her.

They would tell her that she had demons in her, that she was unclean.

I can't help but wonder how much worse those individuals made things for her.