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Hey, Fucking Prayer Cures Diabetes!
By Phil | March 29, 2008
Being diabetic, I’ve got to say, I’d like to know what Dale and Leilani Neumann know that I don’t. Maybe they’re on to something? Maybe I can stop taking twenty goddamn pills a day? Maybe I can eat cake?
Oh, wait:
“Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin says Madeline Neumann died Sunday, and an autopsy determined the cause was diabetic ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin in her body. The chief says she had probably been ill for about 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.”
Here’s the story if you’re so inclined
According to the Associated Press, these fuckwits kept praying right up until 11 year old Madeline stopped breathing.
I can take religious people and their beliefs. Really, some of my best friends and closest family members believe in some Imaginary Man in the Sky. Great– that’s fine. If faith gives you comfort, I’m all for it. Personally, I find my comfort in my belief in myself, my love for my family, perhaps (just perhaps) some harebrained Zen mumbo-jumbo, and occasionally at the bottom of a bottle of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey, but that’s just me.
I gotta tell ya, though, when you start thinking your Imaginary Man in the Sky is going to cure your kid of an incurable fucking disease, so much so that your way to deal with watching her suffer and grow increasingly ill is to just get more people to HELP you pray (because, clearly, your Imaginary Man in the Sky must be deaf or something if he can’t just hear you), you’ve clearly missed the boat somewhere.
However irrational I may think faith is, I’ll never knock anyone’s belief so long as, (A), they aren’t trying to shove it down my fucking throat, and (B), they aren’t using it as an excuse to harm someone else. Which, unfortunately, is usually the problem with most religious extremists (and even not-so-extremists).
The Neumann’s have two other girls, 13 and 16, which, thankfully, since the above story was written, the authorities have taken away from them. Which, considering the fact that diabetes tends to be, oh, I don’t know, fucking genetic, is probably for the best.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be sitting in a dark corner, by myself, rocking and mumbling incoherently. I’m gonna see if I can get rid of this stupid diabetes by chanting.
Topics: Idiots, Phil, Religion |
March 31st, 2008 at 11:08 pm
This must be the hot new thing… there was another one today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23882698/
Fifteen month old died of a basic infection since apparently antibiotics are the work of the devil.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
The story mentions that the law no longer “shields faith healers”. You have to wonder how long before, given the current political climate, some nipplehead repeals said law.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I think it’s a state to state thing. Federally there is no law either protecting them, or making it specifically illegal to use faith healing instead of medical treatment for a child. Some states have passed laws on their own making it illegal.
As for the current climate… I think we’re at the beginning of a left hand swing. Not judging by NY, just my work in Erie, the GOP, the war, and the religious right are quite out of favor with the average person.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I hope you’re right (no pun intended). I’ll believe it when I see it.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
That’s what I said… but, I’ve encountered a total of one person said they plan to vote GOP. Out of the 500ish doors I’ve knocked on, and the hundreds I’ve talked to doing on-site canvasing. One.
I would be amazed, barring any unforeseen circumstances (another us-soil terrorist attack, finding OBL, catching Obama sodomizing an infant while smoking a blunt rolled in the Deceleration of Independence), if PA wasn’t a blue state come November. Erie is a lot more right leaning than the other cities, if they’re this one sided it has to be even more noted in places like Philly. And frankly, if the dems get Erie, Pittsburgh, and Philly they get PA. There’s simply not enough people in the superconservative rural areas to come close to the population there.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Finding OBL or a Diebold voting machine in Ohio suddenly spitting out McCain votes. Boots on the street are all good, but like I said, I’ll believes it whens I sees it.