Faith Kills

[Robdawg]

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A few hours after a Mount Vernon judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion, even though that refusal might kill him, the boy died in a Seattle hospital.


Doctors diagnosed the boy with leukemia in early November and began treating him with chemotherapy at Children's Hospital, but stopped a week ago because his blood count was too low, the Skagit Valley Herald reported. The boy refused the transfusion on religious grounds.

However, his birth parents, Lindberg Sr. and Rachel Wherry, who do not have custody and flew from Boise, Idaho, to be at the hearing, believed their son should have had the transfusion and suggested he had been unduly influenced by his legal guardian, his aunt Dianna Mincin, who is also a Jehovah's Witness.

With the transfusions and other treatment, the boy had been give a 70 percent chance of surviving the next five years, the judge said in court, based on what the boy's doctors told him.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313683,00.html

[leaningright]

Yep, you find misguided faith in a lot of areas, including religion. I have a friend (46 yrs old) who died last summer as the result of not accepting blood during heart surgery. As a result he developed an infection that the doctors said he wouldn't likely have developed if he had accepted the blood. He was a Jehovah's Witness. Things like this are sad but they happen.

I find it no different than when judges put children back in the homes of parents who are drug abusers or other offenders and the children subsequently wind up hurt or dead. I know some have disdain for religion in general but using the JW's to dis Faith is not a good way to go when it comes to "fundies" like myself.

[uscitizen]

Faith in Bush has caused perhaps 1 million deaths overall and many maimed.....

[HipLew]

oh; i thought your were speaking of Faith Hill.....

[LadyT]

Why would his parents leave him with that wackjob when they knew he was sick. Dumb@$$es. They all deserve every bit of guilt they will have for the rest of their lives.

[Jarod]

Just think of all the harm forcing homosexuality and birth control into the closet has caused.

[Chapdog]

Rob you must like Obama. Hes parents were atheists.

[uscitizen]

Atheists ? Hmm might have to look closer at Obama.

[Jarod]

Faith carried to far is a very dangerous thing... Look at what Bush has done out of faith! When you refuse to look at scientific evidence but invade a soverin nation out of faith... you get Iraq!

[uscitizen]

And when you vote for someone out of faith we get Bush. A vicious circle.

George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight

[Jarod]

And when you vote for someone out of faith we get Bush. A vicious circle.

George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight

Vote emotion or faith = Republican.

Vote based on reality and fact = Liberal.

[Chapdog]

A theme of Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and the title of his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.[140] In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian step-father as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change." Obama writes: "It was because of these newfound understandings—that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved—that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized."[141]

[uscitizen]

Ohh I suppose Atheists are more acceptable to bible thumping America than Muslims....

[Jarod]

A theme of Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and the title of his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.[140] In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian step-father as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change." Obama writes: "It was because of these newfound understandings—that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved—that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized."[141]

Exactly how I view religen and clearly NOT how Bush and many Republicans view it!

[charver]

Just think of all the harm forcing homosexuality and birth control into the closet has caused.

Would you prefer gay men to have sex in your closet without protection?