These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.

https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ

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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 6d (1 reply)

Fuck "parents' rights", parents do not have the right to make decisions for their children that will harm them, or against the child's own wishes

stoly@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 6d

Tell that to 250 years of history.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 6d

If there's one thing we can learn from this, it's that God really hates people who believe in faith healing.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 6d

Every single one of them should go away for life for murder, because that's what this is

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 2 pts · 5d

For some families like Liam and Malachi’s, the death of a child wasn’t a one-time tragedy: Records show at least five sets of parents have lost multiple children, a phenomenon that has not previously been reported.

"My neighbor said God keeps killing his babies so I asked how many babies he has and he said whenever a baby dies he just makes a new one so I said it just sounds like he's just feeding babies to God and then his wife started crying"