From: michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:45:53 GMT
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Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: adw@cci632.cci.com's message of 29 Jul 92 16:44:01 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.164401.12564@cci632.cci.com> adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op)) writes:

   In article <Brun1F.I7o@world.std.com> lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund) writes:
=  >	So,  has anyone one had a FOAF healed by a faith healer?  Or has  
=  >anyone had a FOAF die after throwing away their insulin after visting
=  >a faith healer.


=   Well, this may be confusing between Religious healing/faith healing, but
=  there was a court case a number of years ago that dealt with a religious
=  family being prosecuted for negelect of their child. Apparently, when
=  the child developed intestinal discomfort, the parent's course of action
=  was to pray for their son's health. Of course, nothing good came out of it,
=  and the child's condition got worse. Eventually, the authorities came in, took
=  the child to the hospital. The child was suffering from a twisted intestine,
=  not serious in the early stages, but deadly if left untreated. In the child's
=  case it was too late to do anything, and he died from the infection the blocked
=  up wastes caused.
=   The parents were arrested on charges of negelect, but the case was complicated
=  since the seperation of church and state came into play, and to the fact that
=  the parents were upstanding citizens except for their kooky medical beliefs.
=   I don't know for sure what the outcome of the case was, but I do believe they
=  spent some years in jail.

=   Mabye I shouldn't be to harsh on these guys. It must save a fortune on
=  medical insurace, such as it is in the US.

=   No sources or anything, but this is AFU. Whaddya want?

							 Derrick

Yep. It happened. Right here in merry ol'Massachusetts,
home of the Christian Science Church. The parents were found
guilty of neglect. If you're willing to look, articles can be
found in the Boston Globe from about a year to two years ago.
(I can't remember exactly when it happened, but it was all
over the local news.) As for those who might not be familiar
with the Church of Christ Scientist, look up Mary Baker Eddy
in an encyclopedia. One of its distinguishing tenets is the
equation of illness with sin, thereby allowing physical problems
to be treated as religious ones. (Please forgive the simplification
of the tenet, but I really didn't want to go too much into it.
And it definitely shouldn't have been crossposted to rec.humor)

ciao,
chaplin.
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