Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Let us all now praise the Power of The Lord!
I'm sure you all remember this case:
Wis. man testifies he expected God to heal child
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- A central Wisconsin man charged with killing his daughter by praying instead of taking her to a doctor read from the Bible while testifying Thursday that he couldn't seek medical help without disobeying God.
"I can't do that because Biblically, I cannot find that is the way people are healed," Dale Neumann told the jury. "If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God. I am not believing what he said he would do."
So, either the bible is wrong, God lied, or He doesn't exist.
But your daughter is still dead.
From the same article:
Wilde, a loyal member of Neumann's Bible study group, testified for the defense as Neumann's attorney tried to show the father didn't know how ill his daughter was. Wilde said the five adults and three other children at the home prayed and took communion in an effort to heal the girl. She went home and took a nap, expecting the Neumanns to call later and say Madeline was fine and walking again.
"I believe in the power of prayer," Wilde testified.
Uh-huh. And you see what power that is, don't you? The power to let an 11 year old girl die, when she could have been saved simply and quickly by modern medicine.
These idiots deserve to have happen to them what happens when they so willfully ignore reality.
Unfortunately, their kids don't.
Jim Downey
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The evil of religious morality
I have no doubt that this idiot is being assured by his peers that he did the right thing in trusting God. I'm sure you have heard that it takes religion to get a good man to do evil. On a different message board, a godder was explaining the superiority of having an objective standard of transcendent morality established by God. For example, he explained, christian morality would allow for a nuclear first strike to exterminate the muslims because genocide approved by God is good. I am not making it up.
How very tragically sad
How very tragically sad. He could jump into a volcano for all I care if he felt his pretend god/religion wanted him to but to make such primitive choices (actually considering the general population, unfortunately quite a contemporary human mindset) for his child is pretty much unforgivable.
Sorry kid. Life can be nasty, brutish, and short; all the more so when someone justifies their stupidity with claims of "revealed knowledge."
Guilty
Guilty of reckless homicide.
Excellent news.
Thanks, Hank - that is indeed excellent news. And while ML is justified in worrying about whether the punishment will fit the crime, this is at least one more step forward for sanity.
Jim Downey
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Will the sentence fit the finding?
After all, the father in Oregon mentioned in this story got only two months in jail. Or is a fifteen-month-old child less worthy of life than an eleven-year-old? I realize that the Oregon father was sentenced to a lesser charge, but I think that was wrong, too.
A someone else said, I don't care what they do with themselves, they have an obligation to protect and care for their children.
Correct me if i'm wrong...
...but the Bible doesn't forbid medical treatment, does it? By that logic, the Bible doesn't mention driving in cars, flying in airplanes, keeping food in refrigerators or watching television. Does he ban all those things too, or is it just specific to medicine?
Head, Meet Shovel
Murder by neglect.
It's darkly funny that he's now trapped into believing this goddy nonsense for the rest of his life. He can't ever be free to believe anything else, because any lessening of the religious fizz in his head will force him to admit he killed his daughter.
He's also trapped in this tiny inbred community of godders, because everybody outside it will react to him as a child-killer, either pathetic or disgusting.
Both of those are a self-imposed life sentence.
Worse, all the people around him got the same sentence. They either believe as he believes, or they have to admit that one of their own abused his kid so much she died of it. And they stood by and let it happen.
On the brighter side, they do live in Wisconsin:
"Hi, I'm Dale Neumann. After a hard day of killing my daughter, I like to go out for pizza made with Real Wisconsin Cheese."
Argh. Man, I hate living where crazy people can do shit like this, a place where there can even be a question in anybody's mind that the guy -- and everybody in his "Bible study group" -- should be immediately carted off for mental health intervention.
Reality doesn't matter to them.
And will it change their beliefs at all? Nope, every outcome is equally explainable by God. He didn't heal her because it was time for her to come "home". Even though she was only 11. The asshole who let her die will probably be convicted of involuntary manslaughter and spend a few months in jail. Then when he gets out, I bet he tries to convince other idiots to sacrifice their children to God's will.
Wait, wasn't St. Luke a physician?
The author of the Gospel According to Luke was supposed to be a physician, according to tradition. No record that he stopped plying his trade after becoming one of the disciples. Probably lanced a boil or two among the 12.