Girl Dies While Parents Pray

[Arios V]

PetreyDish

Somewhat Relevant:

My mother once told me a story about a girl she knew while growing up. The girl was part of a close-knit Christian community, but I can't remember what denomination. She was severely schizophrenic and ordered into a mental hospital.

While being treated (this term is used loosely because it was psychiatry from about forty or so years ago), her family and fellow members would visit her, and lay their hands on her in an attempt to exorcise her.

They would tell her that she had demons in her, that she was unclean.

I can't help but wonder how much worse those individuals made things for her.

One of the girls I knew in a few of my old class mentioned something like that happening to one of her friends. Except in her case the friend revealed to her family that she wasn't a Christian anymore and was into Pagan stuff. Parents flipped out and tried to have her exorcised thinking she was possessed.  

[In Search of a Dream]

Now that's just sad. I don't have much input to offer other than that.  

[Doredia]

adolfchrist

Shouldn't they all take this as proof that praying doesn't work?

When people pray, let's say like 40%, what they pray for happens. They are simply too stupid to realize that it is all by chance and not by "God's" wishes.  

[adolfchrist]

MissDemeter

Daffodil the Destroyer

adolfchrist

Shouldn't they all take this as proof that praying doesn't work?

There's plenty of evidence that praying doesn't work... but their answer to that is always "God said no," or "it wasn't in His plan." Always a convenient answer to help them ignore facts. The vast majority of religious folk realize that medicine generally works better at curing medical conditions than prayer alone, though... nutsos like these are a tiny minority, thank... well, thank god. XD

There was this one bit that George Carlin did, where he talked about praying. "Suppose your prayers aren't answered. Well, it's god's will, thy will be done. Fine. But if it's god's will and he's gonna do what he wants to in the first place, why the ******** bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me!" Ah, George was a genius. Because it's true! Why bother praying? God supposedly already has his divine plan laid out, so you can't do s**t by praying!

I love that one!  

[A Red Shoe Moment]

That's just plain disturbing. I'm happy that the parents are charged with second-degree homicide, but I'm bothered with the fact that the parents refused to take care of their ill daughter.  

[=X-Sparker + AquaKiller=]

There certainly was a sickness, and it certainly was a test.

Except the sickness was the parents' mental sickness and they completely failed the test.

 

[Dathu]

=X-Sparker + AquaKiller=

There certainly was a sickness, and it certainly was a test.

Except the sickness was the parents' mental sickness and they completely failed the test.

xd Nice. That's good enough to be a slogan.  

[B1g_crunch]

I think the parents are retarded and should have had the diseases instead. It's a win-win situation, if the parents get it, they'll do one of two things.

1.) They'll be hypocrites and go to a f**king doctor, and live.

2.) They'll still be braindead and die for real, thus reducing the retarded population.

Religion is a disease itself, a parisite on humanity and for all the damage it's caused, deserves to be extenguished forever. Faith should be found in a person's life choices, not a church or temple for worshipping a fake being who seemingly holds control over all of us.  

[almisami]

Evangelic parents are often of the lower chaste of society where education isn't a strong point. Hence, I'm amazed these sad scenarios don't happen more often. Poor girl emo  

[EATSMEATS]

I'm glad the parents got what they deserved. Jail and one less daughter. That should prove to people that praying doesn't work flat out or in the sense spoken by the great George Carlin.

although .... I probably would've given them a disease and tell them to pray for it to go away.
See how they like it.  

[Yevn]

Both of those ignorant parents deserve to never be let out of jail their children could still be alive but they let religion kill their children.  

[Labtech Soosh]

As their own mythology goes: an eye for an eye...


...Can we send them to old-sparky?
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[Colm-kun]

Now watch they are going to pray that the life insurance on her will be valid.  

[In Search of a Dream]

Colm-kun

Now watch they are going to pray that the life insurance on her will be valid.

If it is, they're probably not getting a cent.  

[Fred The Flagrant]

PetreyDish

Somewhat Relevant:

My mother once told me a story about a girl she knew while growing up. The girl was part of a close-knit Christian community, but I can't remember what denomination. She was severely schizophrenic and ordered into a mental hospital.

While being treated (this term is used loosely because it was psychiatry from about forty or so years ago), her family and fellow members would visit her, and lay their hands on her in an attempt to exorcise her.

They would tell her that she had demons in her, that she was unclean.

I can't help but wonder how much worse those individuals made things for her.

I know that this is urelated to what you said, but the reference to mental health and religion just spured a thought.

The roman-catholic church used to believe that the study of anything from the neck up was a sin, i.e. neurology etc.

This was a huge setback in the advancement of modern medicine and science. If it were not for the roman-catholic church, we would live in a totally different world right now.