What would you do for your children when they're sick? Probably anything, right? You'd take them to the finest doctors, pay whatever it cost, you'd see as many specialists as possible. Even if it was something fairly common like asthma, if your child was suffering you'd do whatever you had do to, right?
So you can also probably sympathize with these parents who had their daughter beaten bloody, impaled with a red hot poker and left paralyzed for life in order to exorcize her asthma demon? I mean, anything's better than asthma, right?
This is what faith based decision making leads to in its most extreme cases. No tests are done, they simply declare the poor girl cured and continue on. Well, what the fuck happens when her asthma flares up again? They'll move the goalpost and say something like "her faith wasn't strong enough" or "she did xyz and allowed the demon back in" And an entire community looks the other way.
This is why religion must not be allowed to grow uninhibited. It must be opposed for the sake of little children who have no say. Faith healing over modern medicine is not a phenomena specific to foreign, uneducated lands.
Case in point. Now, they certainly didn't beat the poor buy into a paralytic state. But he fucking died. The child is dead from an easily treatable condition because people choose faith, a method which has never passed any test, has never accomplished any measurable result in anything it was applied to and they picked it over a fucking doctor because a really, really old book made them feel guilty about trusting reason and scientific efforts.
No, but people need religion, right?
