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Thread: Child dies due to faith healing; parents get 6 months of jail time
jabarto 11:17 11-13-2009
Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla:
They believed God heals people, not medicine, so they prayed instead of going to a doctor.

Ergo, they tried to do the best thing. Prove otherwise, criminal cases presume innocence.
Are you seriously arguing that these people were so isolated for their entire middle-aged lives that they couldn't have learned that even the most die-hard of fundmaentalists take their kids to the doctors?

I'm not saying intent doesn't matter. I'm saying that every life form, no matter how primitive, has an instinctual urge to ensure that its offspring don't die. These people ignored that and thus have no excuse.

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