I'm glad to see this.

I don't get it. I mean, really. I just don't get it. Certainly in the congregation I grew up in, there was a belief in faith healing but most parents were smart enough to at least take kids to a family doctor (no pediatricians in my little town!) -- and then on for referrals to specialists if needed. There came the point where they said, "Okay, what's REALLY the right thing to do?"

Kind of makes me think of the old story of the guy on his roof during a massive flood -- he keeps saying, "God will save me, God will save me." Meanwhile a rowboat comes along and he sends them off because "God will save me." Then a rescue boat comes along; same thing. Finally the floodwaters are almost at him, and a helicopter comes along .... same thing, "God will save me." He drowns, and when he gets to heaven he asks God what happened that he didn't save him. God said, "What more did you want? I sent you two boats and a copter, dummy!"

For all the talk of "God will heal him" why didn't they stop and think that God enabled doctors with knowledge and research scientists with knowledge to create medicines and use them properly to heal disease? DUH!!!!!

That's why these deaths just p*** me off to no end. Do they not think that choices (or lack thereof) have consequences?