Slate.com article on kids whose parents refuse medical treatment: JWs mentioned

by sir82 2 Replies latest watchtower medical

  • sir82
    sir82

    The article is here.

    Relevant snippet:

    These exemptions have produced the expected result: Hundreds of children have gotten sick and died because their parents resorted to faith rather than medicine. I cover this ongoing tragedy, one of the most serious conflicts between rationality and superstition, in my new book, Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible, and you can read more in Caroline Fraser’s God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church and Paul Offit’s Bad Faith. These children either have no choice in their treatment or are not mature enough to make informed decisions. Some, like children of Jehovah’s Witnesses who die from refusing blood transfusions, are even extolled as “Youths who put God first.” All of them are martyrs to their parents’ religion.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    "...martyrs to their parents' religion."

    Damn, that's a powerful little phrase.

    I gotta remember that.

  • undercover
    undercover

    JWs who refuse blood transfusions for their children, allowing them to die in a life threatening situation to prove they are faithful to Jehovah, are no better than the ancient people who gave sacrificed their children in fire to prove their faith in Baal.

    According to the Bible, Jehovah despised those people who martyred their children to a 'false' god, yet (per the WTS) requires his people to martyr children to prove their faith in him.

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