did God let this man down?

[sara3]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8180 116.stm

btw, I'm not religious and I believe this man and his wife were blindingly stupid.

[Mr Veritas]

There is NO such thing as God.
I have looked into the depths of the abyss,and God was not there!

[mibn2cweus]

But none among them had the conviction in the efficacy of their own mind to dare to question faith in the almighty. Such are the products and spoils of religion and blind faith. For what they're worth as human beings they should all hang along side their 'savior'.

[pinktwink]

totally agree^^^^^ they are all guilty by association

[wolf63]

This is the sort of thing that one would expect in the dim and distant past - the Middle Ages.

Imagine watching your child die and not calling for medical help - it is beyond all comprehension.

[ELVIS68]

This man let his daughter down, just another case of brainwashed religion

[Davethedog]

We live in a day and age in which individuals are becoming more and more isolated. We also live in a day and age where a Grandmother is stopped from taking pictures of her own Grand children at a swimming pool. How are outsiders in anyway collectivly, or otherwise, in anyway culpable.

As for Athiests being intolerant, if they are they are know more intolerant than the fundemental religion peddlers and again the intolerant are in the mouthy majority.

How ever if you ask a question and you get a direct answer how is that intolerant. Do not expect anyone but those of the greatest faith to understand what this man put his daughter through, diabetes is an insiduous chronic disease and this child should of had a long life.

However this man should not be brought to trail for what? He belived, he thought God would save his child. If they have another child though........

[Ankou]

he has been convicted of second-degree reckless homicide, not for believing in the power of god through prayer. that isn't a crime in itself. only when someone gets hurt do we find there is more evidence to say it doesnt work, than it does.

i'm not a god person or even remotely religious, but i hope after a very long spell in prison, that his god effects the appropriate punishment for murderers at their final judgement.

[poltergeist]

I wonder if he will still believe in God when he is been sodomised by all his fellow inmates?

[poltergeist]

But saying that. Also if they convict this guy then why dont they just ban religion. Especially Muslim. They have caused more deaths than anyone...

[beso]

I have seen people do this to themselves through their own stupid faith. I have known several women who have had breast cancer. Those who used modern medicine are all alive and those who meditated and drank their urine etc are all dead.

Many years ago I knew of a guy who was bitten by a snake and decided to meditate has way back to health. He died of an otherwise rarely fatal bite.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Don't they all, Luna?

[naomi24]

More likely he didn't speak at all, and the man was just 'hearing voices'.