THIS is why religion can be dangerous. Parents merely pray while daughter dies.
Posted In: Philosophy/Religion, Random Lashing Out, Science
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/28/prayer.death.ap/index.html
Two parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes were charged Monday with second-degree reckless homicide. “
Family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann to get help for their daughter, but the father considered the illness “a test of faith” and the mother never considered taking the girl to the doctor because she thought her daughter was under a “spiritual attack,” the criminal complaint said. “
GODDAMNIT. This is senseless. The parents and their preacher should all be put in prison. They were running around, using faith–and wouldn’t ya know it–faith turned out to get someone killed.
A day before Madeline died, according to the criminal complaint, the father wrote an e-mail with the headline, “Help our daughter needs emergency prayer!!!!.” It said his daughter was “very weak and pale at the moment with hardly any strength.” “
If you know anyone who is like this, call the cops and the loony-catchers on their dumbasses immediately.
It’s called science, and don’t you dare tell me that science “doesn’t have all the answers.” No shit, assface. I know that. But it sure as shit drives that computer you’re now using to view this goofy-ass website. That Gateway Pentium-II you’re on doesn’t run on the Bible or Jesus-juice.
DAMNIT!
-MC Spanky McGee
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My recent “agitating” concerning ways in which one can be an atheist was motivated by my desire to make room for atheists that are not as gung ho as, say, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Part of the problem is that I think they can be too polarizing. However, it is these kinds of stories [e.g., the one Spanky posted about] that justify the rhetoric of Dawkins and Hitchens. Surely it is far better to be a gung ho Dawkins than a gung ho religious zealot, particularly when children are involved.