US man 'killed child by praying'

so much for God, eh?

Tolerance is a nice idea , if it worked I would be for it . When I was young I was all forgiving and tolerant , turn the other cheek . It does not work . Tolerance gives people license to be even more destructive . This girl and all her potential did not have to suffer and die . Now I say you can have your religion , but just keep it to yourself . Do not push it on others , however well meaning you think it is . All children should have the right to choose what they believe and not be held hostage to a parents' superstition . Let them use their own minds . Common sense first .

Notfooled is a beautiful example of how efficient the brainwashing that religious "training" actually is... In his view the doctors are merely puppets who's hands are being moved by the strings held by the hands on high...WOW!... I'll guarantee you that if the work done by the doctor fails, the doctor and the doctor alone will beheld responsible...not the puppet master in the sky.

this is how we figured out that this shit doesn't work

Really through the doctors hands?

I'm sure his medical school bills aren't being healed by god......

Not all Christians are anti-doctor/anti-hospital. I don't go to the doctor because I don't get sick, but I know if I do GOD will heal me, whether thru the help of a doctor or by HIS Divine Nature. Of course once again you enlightened ones show your tolerance of those that don't agree with everything that you say, nice.

Good to hear, maof4brats

See I have told you Religion does KILL! again! Stupid Shit!We had to take my Johova Witness sister to court to save my nephews life he was needing a blood transfusion and she said no! We won and my nephew Danny is alive and well.

GrinningSatyr

Very good points.

I think this man was afraid to go to the hospital with his child.Maybe he had no health insurance,but this is no reason not to seek medical help.

This young girl didn't even know what was going on with her.

Prayer does help but it takes action from you to complete it.

I hope people will not be afraid to get help when it is needed.

Nicely said Eleganza

The question to ask people who believe in this superstitious nonsense is simply...If God will heal upon request, why does he discriminate against amputee's? There is nowhere in medical annuls even a single case where a human being has regrown a leg or an arm that was amputated either by surgery or accident. Nobody has ever regrown a hand, no woman who has had a mastectomy has ever regrown her breasts. Now you have to believe that there must have been at least ONE individual who's prayers would have been answered in regards to this in the last 2000 years...The obvious answer is that prayer does not magically heal or repair human flesh or end disease. The man is guilty of gross negligence as well as unbelievable stupidity and his daughter paid the price. Those who teach this kind of dangerous superstitious fantasy have her blood on their hands as well.

Gotta love the system. Take credulous, easily coerced people and send them off to prison to be converted into Muslims!
~Half joking, half serious.

OK, Lets be realistic by show of hands who has been or knows someone that has been cured by prayer alone.

And I'm not talking about the common cold or hemorrhoids.

NO doctor intervention......

the govt should stay out of this one. who cares if some religious wacko is so stupid that he really believes that praying will cure his daughters diabetes as apposed to well documented treatments used for decades. not I. I feel for the daughter, but children die for lack of access to these treatments every day. those people had access to treatment and chose not to utilize it. the govt should not try to dictate peoples personal decisions; religious, medical, or otherwise.

I think they already made that movie, "Jesus Camp".

Religion's Deathtoll - 400,000,001 ...and rising.

Shit at this point they should just make a horror movie called "Organized Religion".

Don't take that, that's mine.

His problem wasn't that be was religious or that he prayed, his problem is that he's a mindless F**ktard.

The title is misleading. How could one kill another by "praying"? A better use of words would have been "Let child die by praying instead".

The best cure for ignorance is education and awareness, not intolerance.

i remember this shit, those fucking fools deserve to be kept far away from the rest of society. maybe someone could have to foresight to de-brainwash them they sit in their cement cubes.

So religious freedom has a limit. Then again given the attitudes of many doctors the difference is who you should be praying too.