I wonder about these people...
Sep. 30th, 2011 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsYesterday, 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?
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?
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