I was going to add this to the current thread about parents denying medical treatment for their kids for religious reasons but I decided just to start a new thread.
A father in Utah was just sentenced to 18 months for kidnapping his son from a hospital where the kid was being treated for “severe malnutrition.” Apparently, they only fed him watermelon and lettuce because they feel he is the “Christ child.” You can read the whole story here.
How do you feel about this?
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How wonderful that I get to laugh at Christians in my evil post! I think the parents should be able to raise the issue of the child’s divinity at trial, but they have to be able to prove it. What evidence did they offer as to the child’s divinity? And why watermelon and lettuce as opposed to, say, mushmelon and parsley?
I’m sure I will be corrected if I am wrong, but I don’t recall reading in the Bible that Jesus was only fed watermelon and lettuce. I feel like he probably at least ate some bread and fish. If Jesus, the “original” Christ child, could eat normal food and not be tainted, why does this kid have to be on the Kate Moss diet plan?
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It’s important to remember that if the child is fed nothing but lettuce and watermelon for very long, he will eventually die of starvation. As such, I don’t see a lot of difference between this and shooting your child in the head because God told you to.
Dr. J
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This is why, dougie (from another thread), that freedom of religion, while important, is superceded in cases when the people involved show that they’re fucking lunatics, endangering the life and welfare of a person (or child), or both.
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If you go to www.religioustolerance.org
there is an interesting report on the concept of faith healing and “odd” acts of faith, including some legal information. This organization in favor of all religious tolerance and the free practice of all religions. It is hypercritical of the “anti-cult” movement and even supports Scientology (this just goes to show how much they believe in the right to practice any religion). However, at the end of the “faith healing” section, they have this disclaimer:
Those are very radical statements, considering the source. Perhaps The United States needs to take a second look at its “Faith healing” laws in regards to children.
Hmmph…of course, this is something that is paralleled every day where parents refuse to allow blood transfusions to their children. There’s been some thorny legal debate on that, as I recall - anyone know which way the legal scales are currently careening?
Such a shame that blindfold stops the poor lady from realising and steadying the poor things out…
