Beldaran wrote:And they used the exact same logic Starkist does when he expects his god to take him to heaven. It's all so logical and realistic!
Well, at least believing God will take you to Heaven when you die doesn't directly contradict observable facts, like, oh, I dunno, your daughter dying. I just can't understand how the fact that the prayer didn't work leads them to still conclude that prayer does work. Boggles the mind.
Well, it doesn't change things, but I'm glad to hear this: the couple has, in fact, been charged with manslaughter and criminal mistreatment.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23882698/
Quite frankly, these are disgusting people, and I really hope the charges stick. My greatest hope is that this serves as a wake-up call regarding these idiots who don't believe in providing their children with basic care. I'm sorry, but I'm so sick of this religious crap about faith-based healing and whatnot. If you want to refuse medical treatment yourself because of your religion, fine, be my guest, we'll be better off without you, but damn it, doing this to a child, in my eyes, is no different than starving the child.
Having faith in something you cannot even test that it exists is called insanity. You cannot prove "God" exists. So hedging your life or death bet on the idea that God exists and does so in the way you imagine is retarded.
I am not against the idea of God. However I most certainly am against the idea that any of you mother fuckers know anything about God and what he/she wants or says. Religion on earth is largely for power and control. Some isn't, but largely that is what it is.
Anyway, sadly the number of people that "have faith" is alarmingly high. If only we could convince more of them to commit suicide and go to their God and leave us alone.
Do you have specific examples of religions that are for power and control, and ones that aren't? I'm interested in hearing about them.
In any case, I'd rather not want to see large numbers of "faithful" committing suicide, if only because religions that encourage suicide tend to also encourage adding large numbers of non-believers to the body count.
Well if you haven't been living under a rock, radical Islam is a method for terrorists to gain power and control over their followers. However at the same time there are others that practice it of free will and do not hurt anyone.
Lets just hope there is a grand plague that reduces the human population by about 75%, and that those people that die are the ones that were too busy praying to God to save them. 😛