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Jo Potocki helps pro choice movements.

Faith healing kills again. I've been following this story. It's taken a couple of years to come to trial. This time it was a baby who had parents that chose to pray instead of calling 9-1-1. Their baby was born 2 months premature and his lungs weren't strong enought yet and the baby had a staph infection he had contracted from his mother. The child was born alive and his parents chose to pray for their son to be made stronger instead of doing something wacky like calling an ambulance. Interestingly enough, a church leader admitted that he told witnesses to not be fully cooperative in the investigation of the baby's death. Another couple from this same church got 90 days in jail a $25,000 fine and lost custody of their daughter for praying instead of having a huge growth removed from her eye. 

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its one thing to have faith we all should, but a little common sense goes along way to.

20 months ago

@pricekimberly66- exactly. Faith is fine but theres' a time and place for medical intervention.

20 months ago

This is horrendous....I just can't understand this kind of thinking??!!!!

20 months ago

@Zoe- agreed. I thought it was astounding the minister of their church even admitted he told people to be "not fully cooperative" ...that just speaks volumes for a penchant for bad decisions. And deceptiveness. They deserve a better spiritual leader for sure.

20 months ago

Ok were the parents blessed from higher powers??? were they divine??? was or is your church bieng guided from divine or from higher powers??? No, so why would you think about praying when you can get help??? pray for the help to help, these are ppl that are lost in this world and when they die, they will be punished and sent back to earth to complete their mission... some parents, no all parents need to go through a test, mental test, to see if you are a fitted parent, if not, you should be castrated... not allowed to have children...

20 months ago

Good thoughts Reza .... commonsense seems to fly out the window for some people .... this would be a sad example of it.

20 months ago

nice

20 months ago

This is not faith..it is insane..i mean faith is something you use along side of medical help..not instead of. i remember when when I was younger there was family that lived about 2 hours from us and their little girl died she was 13 her apendix burst instead of the hospital they prayed her all the way to heaven..poor angels..my god have mercy on their parents souls.

20 months ago

Lorri - wow that is so, so sad.

20 months ago

Thanks Jose, it happens from time to time. :) Thanks for letting me know, I updated the link :)

19 months ago