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rivalarrivalApr 28, 5:10pm
cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/28/prayer.death.ap/index.html [cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/28/prayer.death.ap/index.html]

11-year old girl dies because her parents prayed instead of seeking help. She died of ketoacidosis - something that even a First Responder would have suspected because of a distinct scent on the victim's breath. (It's somewhere between fruit and paint thinner)

Ketoacidosis is a diabetic emergency, and is resolved with insulin. Prayer is no more a remedy for ketoacidosis than leeches or ritual sacrifice.


InadvertentlyMeApr 28, 5:14pm
*sigh*

Why do people DO that?!?!

Poor kid was hurting, weak, and instead they prayed... should I marvel at their faith? The callousness? Their parsimony?

Argh... she's dead. And could be alive and playing in a backyard right now.


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VortexfugueApr 28, 5:53pm
Sick fucking parents, makes me want to vomit!


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KarolingerApr 28, 6:55pm
That's so F wrong


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MorosophApr 29, 5:14am
Pom pom pom... We're saved. Nothing bad is going to happen. Why worry?

I think that ignorant is the term, rather than sick, and I mean that literally: to be ignorant is to persistently ignore facts. If they looked around them with some degree of attempting to discern the truth, they'd realise that the world doesn't work that way.


LuridHopeApr 29, 5:56am
Other christians can sweep this under the rug as extremism,
but the truth is that "believers", by thier very nature, are all capable of such harmful self centered stupidity.

No objectivity whatsoever.


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JungApr 29, 6:00am
Society says you better believe or you're evil/ignorant but don't believe too much or you're evil/ignorant.


LuridHopeApr 29, 7:14am
Pretend believers are hypocrites, real believers are zealots.
Pretend believers are socio-political, real believers are fanatical doers.

That same belief which compells some people to suicide bomb is the same belief which compells people dig irrigation ditches is starving third world countries. Faith brings out the best and worst in people, it's nothing but a magic feather enabling people to do what ever the hell it is that they really wanna do anyway.


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VortexfugueApr 29, 8:10am
5. I use the word sick over ignorant in this case because parents of this ilk are sick fucks to allow a child of theirs to die when insulin would have saved her. It's beyond ignorant.


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KarolingerApr 29, 8:45am
Psychosis is another word.


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