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14 Christians go on trial in Australia after "faith-healing" death of 8-year-old girl
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How are people still this fucking stupid?
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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We normally are that stupid. Only through the constant efforts of education can we reach a standard of averageness.
I'd imagine that all their lives, they've been told stuff like 'If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move mountains' and also 'God is all-powerful and all-loving'.
They have faith. They trust that God will heal. From everything they've been told about the religion, praying a disease away is a piece of cake. Jesus did it with leprosy, so why shouldn't they be able to do it to? Giving her insulin would have shown doubt, and they can't have that when they're desperately trying to prove their faith. Plus, it's not like an all-powerful and all-loving god would let an innocent girl DIE because of that, right? But even if he did, then that's all part of his master plan.
They already have a thought-terminating cliche for every red flag their brain raises. It's truly awful what happened and that people would sooner lose a child over losing their religion.
Edit: Just got back from the article and a few followups. Nevermind! This was a fucking cult. >The Saints—a tight-knit group that only has 23 members in total, spread over three families.
We treat an infectious psychological condition like it's anything other than a plague.
Jehovah's witness 101 right there.
This is a better article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97dq22nj0lo
Mum had just gotten out of jail having tried the same thing once before.
Dad wasn't completely committed the first time.
Just an awful awful story.
This "faith healing" malarkey goes on in churches everywhere, just that usually someone involved knows there's a line somewhere. I would argue that it's just plain cruel even when it seems like harmless social engineering.
These despicable pieces of shit need to be called what they are, murderers.
The mom was sent to jail after having put her in coma just a couple of years before. She was then. Released and allowed to return home to finish the job. Horrible.