Originally Posted by 7xstall

again, there is never an excuse for the state to intervene on behalf of children unless the parents are intentionally and purposefully harming their children.

you argue that the parents were somehow neglectful because they shun modern medicine. who are you to demand that they discard their faith in the Sovereign Creator of the universe in favor of modern medicine? what gives your faith in medicine any level of superiority to faith in anything else that one might have, especially faith in the God that made everything with only His thoughts? my belief is that He uses medicine so i wouldn't avoid treatment but it is their natural right to do so as an affirmation of THEIR faith.

you said the girl "would have died" as thought it is fact but it is not fact, it is at best speculation. you don't know. and even if she had died that would not have been a failure of the parents at all. catastrophic illness kills people every day. is that your fault or my fault? people live and people die. they have the absolute right to trust in God for all things and for the state to play god is wrong. you can look down and make fun all you want but it doesn't change the reality that children belong to their parents. not like an external property but rather as an extension of themselves.








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