Trials For Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine

Originally Posted by Ness the Mess

Look, I completely disagree with what they did, but I would hope that my faith is more important to me than my country.

I don't know what country you are from, and I really don't give a fuck, but this comment right here has to be one of the most selfish, self centered things I have every fucking heard in my life. Yes, God wants you to follow his words, and he gives you tests of faith and blah blah blah, but if you take more pride in caring more about a fairy tale book than another human being's life, then you sir are a god damn asshole.

I do of course mean human beings in general. It's perfectly okay to say "Hey, the bible is cooler than Jimmy down the street who catapults frogs into Old lady Sanderson's yard."

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Lives are not as important as souls

Tell that to someone laying in bed, suffering immensely and wanting help, and the only two people in the world that supposedly love them unconditionally are pretty much saying that some magical force will make them feel better and refuse to help said dying person in anyway.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Ness the Mess

A belief in God is not the same as ignorance, but a denial in the religious lives of others is.

Christianity itself was a huge movement of denial of other religions before it. Hell, Christianity used to kill every single person that came along that didn't believe in THEIR GOD.

I'm not denying people to believe in a fairy tale, I mean no one denied me as a child my belief in santa claus or the tooth fairy...but there has to be a time where everyone grows up and realize that characters of lore and fantasy are just that.

Besides Ness...what if this article had read: "Scientologists deny child medical care based on faith"? Would you feel any different?

There's nowhere I can't reach.