Comments on: Couple who chose prayer over medical attention for their daughter are jailed

By: DMH

DMH — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:57:59 +0000

And how many times have you tried it?

By: horseloverfats

horseloverfats — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:20:16 +0000

The child was healed–she was taken away from our "imperfect, fallen" world into the Kingdom of Heaven by God. She is already risen up and is "Dancing with the Stars" in the stars…

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:18:03 +0000

Basically the courts are finding that the Bible is fraudulent with the multiple claims of healing through prayer and faith, and anyone who believes the claims is unfit to reproduce.

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:56:28 +0000

All religion is a form of brainwashing and self-hypnosis, Hidden. This became increasingly clear to me when I was an evangelical. Just look at prayers (especially chanted and recited), hymns and psalms, and "meditation", not to mention, of course, very emotional, impassioned "sermons". They even admit themselves that prayer has more of an effect on the person praying than anything else, which seems to be to be an admission of the fact! And rituals too, in all religions, help to condition the minds of "believers". It's all an enormous "con"!!

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:56:07 +0000

All religion is a form of brainwashing and self-hypnosis, Hidden

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:44:12 +0000

I know erstwhile intelligent people who believe every word of this, GNG. They still visit the doctor, though! (If there is one thing that I cannot bear, it is hypocrisy!!)

By: GNG

GNG — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:00:08 +0000

Very telling barrie. Well done. It's good to see that your years of belief are now a great asset in your more enlightened times.

Godless not gormless

By: GNG

GNG — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:58:02 +0000

Typical repuslive garbage from the brainless! Don't you care about what happened to this little girl? Doesn't it bother you that your god didn't step in to help her when she really needed it? If you really believe in god and his mercy and kindness, don't you think he might have intervened in this case?

This little girl was abused and let down by her parents and other adults around her, all of whom presumably believed in your god. It was time for god to show a little mercy for a change. A chance to show he exists. Unsurprisingly, he didn't do anything for the simple reason that non existance is a major impediment to achieving anything.

Try to learn something from this Debbie. Either god is imaginary or he just doesn't give a shit about believers abusing others. I'd go for the former. It makes a lot of sense.

Godless not gormless

By: Angela_K

Angela_K — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:52:54 +0000

"God is NOT against doctors or medications." You have this in writing do you, or was it the voices?

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:47:38 +0000

Well, Debbie, here's what the Bible REALLY says! "Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up" (James 5:14-15.) Maybe these stupid twats forgot to call for the ELDERS! Maybe they should have been imprisoned for THAT!!