I wonder about these people...

[elfs]

Yesterday, there was yet another conviction against The Followers of Christ, a Christian sect in Oregon that has let yet another child die a horrible death rather than seek medical attention for the boy.

What struck me most in the article was this line: "The Followers of Christ ... believe that life-and-death decisions were a test of faith. God, not doctors, would determine who survives and who succumbs -- even when an illness is treatable by medicine or a minor medical procedure."

Do they wear seatbelts? Get vaccinated? Install GFCI outlets? Do they baby-proof their house against forks in sockets, poisons under sinks, barriers across stairwells? If they sign up for the military, do they stride out onto the battlefield confident that a bullet will find them only if God wants it to?

Comments

[urox.livejournal.com]

That's the whole problem with faith. Questioning isn't considered a good thing.

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Right. So god isn't allowed to hire 3rd parties to get the job done? He has to come down in person and fix every last problem himself?

WTF!

[elfs.livejournal.com]

A man lives in a floodplain, and the water is rising. He climbs onto the roof, but even that isn't high enough. He prays, "Lord, save me!" As he prays, a man with a boat comes by. But the man on the roof waves him away, saying, "God will save me!" Another boat comes by, and another. The water rises. In the night, even as he prays harder and louder, the water sweeps him away and he drowns.

When he gets to heaven, he says, "I prayed and prayed. Why didn't you save me?"

"What are you talking about?" God says. "I sent three boats!"

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Exactly the story I was thinking of, except the version I know has 2 boats and a helicopter.

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

me too