Posted on 04/30/2008 6:26:47 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Is God an unindicted co-conspirator?
Doesn’t mention Christian Science specifically, but seems like a variation on that theme.
“Thou shalt be stupid” is not in the 10 commandments
If she hadn’t died, would they be charged? If they had treated her and she still died, would they be charged?
If they had treated her, how would it be gross negligence?
Perhaps this is not the popular opinion, but just how far will the ‘state” be allowed to go with this???
I fear we are once again letting the camel poke his nose into the tent, without considering the logical consequences of where this policy will lead. Especially in todays society where common sense, and self-restraint are not seen as desirable chareceristics,
When it comes to litigation, and controlling the power of the state over individuals, how far will we let it go, if we preface it with the obligatory “Its for the children”?
Would I have acted as these parents did?? I hope not, but last time I checked, true freedom includes the freedom to be wrong as long as you are willing to accept the consequences for being wrong.
But, call me just another man out of time.
That's why he appointed doctors for that task. God provides sustenance too... did these folks sit around the dining table praying for meals to materialize?
Sanctimonious stupidity.
I'm all for people following their faith, but human ability to grow food, build houses, and heal the sick is all of one piece for me. It's foolish to think that God is opposed to any of that.
Not when the consequence of being wrong is somebody else's death. There are plenty of Muslim extremists who are "willing to accept the consequences" of the 3000+ deaths of OTHER people on 9/11. These parents are "willing to accept the consequences" of the helpless young daughter's completely avoidable death. Neither of these positions is defensible via the perpetrators' claiming a right to "true freedom".
When you lose a child it is as if you had died. In fact you would trade places if it were possible. But what gives you the right to say that your values supersede the rights of others. Unless you are personally willing to intercede and take responsibility for the other person. then let the parents handle it.
If they are wrong, ultimately they will be punished. be it in this life, or the next.
What’s the old joke about the guy on his roof waiting for God to save him from the flood? After he refuses several rescue attempts he wonders why God hasn’t saved him, to which God replies, “I sent a couple of boats and a helicopter.” Something like that anyway.
Like all really good jokes, there is a great deal of truth in that one.
If she died, one could argue they didn’t treat her well enough. That’s the argument being made now, isn’t it?
You have a right to be wrong about your own life.
When the life isn't yours, you have much less of a right. Your children are yours to care for and tend. They are not yours to allow to die or to abuse due to your wacky ideas.
I’d have to go back and look for the source, but my understanding from other news articles is that the parents were urged by other family who saw the girl’s deteriorating condition to get medical help for her, but the parents refused to seek any treatment except prayer.
From reading about the case, prosecution seems very warranted. The girl was suffering and dying before the parents’ eyes, and they never pursued any medical intervention for her. I don’t believe religious freedom or parental rights should include the right to allow a child to die based on a completely misguided belief that her obviously worsening illness was spiritual in nature and refusal to seek any other relief.
There’s nothing wrong with praying for the health and recovery over others, or refusing medical treatment for one’s self based on religious belief, but preserving the life of a minor child trumps the parents’ rights to impose those moral beliefs when they become a virtual death sentence by precluding life-saving treatment.
Best comment I've read all day!!!
And if I think that the way you are “caring” for you child could cause them harm, or in some way be insufficient to meet my standards of “tending “ them, I then have the right to use the long arm of the great god gov’t to take those children from you??
Where does it end?? Once we let the do-gooders, social workers and “Mrs Grundy’s” into our homes, we will NOT be able to get them out again.
In times past, it was the community through various forms of peer pressure who assured some standard of conduct within the neighborhood. But as we have become more affluent, and “successful” we have become lazier and look more to the questionable auspices of an ever more intrusive “state” do do for us, that which we used to (and should still) do for ourselves.
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