It's amazing how callous Christians can be, even to their own children.

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Praying man let his daughter die

A US jury has found a man guilty of killing his sick 11-year-old daughter by praying for her recovery rather than seeking medical care. The man, Dale Neumann, told a court in the state of Wisconsin he believed God could heal his daughter. She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.

Dale Neumann faces up to 25 years in prison

Neumann's wife, Leilani Neumann, was convicted earlier this year.

The couple, who were both convicted of second-degree reckless homicide, face up to 25 years in prison when they are sentenced in October.

A lawyer representing Dale Neumann said he would appeal.

'Faith healing'

During the trial, medical experts told the court that Neumann's daughter could have survived if she had received treatment, including insulin and fluids, before she stopped breathing.

On Thursday Neumann, who is 47 and studied in the past to be a Pentecostal minister, said he thought God would heal his daughter.

"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," he said. "I am not believing what he said he would do."

He also said he thought his daughter had had flu or a fever, and that he had not realised how ill she was.

Neumann's lawyer said he had been convinced that his "faith healing" was working, and that he had committed no crime.

The prosecution argued that Neumann had minimised his daughter's illness and that he had allowed her to die as a selfish act of faith.

They said the girl should have been taken to hospital because she was unable to walk, talk, eat or drink.

Instead, an ambulance was only called once the girl had stopped breathing.

Source: BBC

Faith in God would drive one to get her treated, not to leave her to die.

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Care to quote where I said "left alone"?

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You're not all there mate.

Medical science is merely a 'craft' that God has granted us knowledge of. Faith in medicine is irrelevant without faith in God, but faith in God would lead one to have faith in medicine. Medicine in and of itself has no power over your life whatsoever, that doesn't mean utilising it is a waste of time and indicates lack of faith in God.

Kinda like saying faith in cooking is what people have who eat, whilst people who starve themselves to death have faith in God. You're a simpleton really.

abu_rashid wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2009 at 8:35pm:


Do you mean like islamic treatment of suicide belts or/and crimes of "honour"?

Grendel,

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Nowhere did I say "leave her alone". I said "leave her" as in abstain from doing the correct thing to ensure she received treatment. Wasn't that hard was it?

sprint,

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Good to see you're standing up for the right on this one.

You idiot Aboo...  do you know what "leave" means?
I did quote you...
Even in the topic you claim...  "Christian left his daughter to die"
The actual article states.. "let his daughter die".  No leaving involved.
No matter how you look at it your usage implies LEAVING  ie removing oneself from proximity.  NOT THAT THAT WAS EVER MY MAIN POINT ANYWAY. All good Muslims like muddying the water and confusing issues don't they.  
Good grief.

How about addressing the real issue then eh?

BTW Sprint...  no one is saying the guy did the right thing.   

skippy - I don't see why there ever should be a case of deciding between your child  (or anyones child)  and ones faith.

This is a demonstration of absolute faith... An attempt to eliminate all sense of uncertainty by believing it possible to transcend the void of doubt that separates faith and knowing. The sense of uncertainty most often betrayed in the faithful by their using of past tense to suggest what the deceased would have thought of an event had they been alive.

It shows the mortal danger of complete surrender to faith and the arrogant assertion that ultimate doubt can be transcended. It's also a good argument for the sense of atheism, in that while disbelief that god exists does little or nothing to ease existential angst and the fear of death, it does disabuse the non-believer of the expectation that a divine force will mitigate the laws of nature in his favour.

Of course, no doubt Dale Neumann will argue that god did answer his pleas for his daughter's life, it's just that the answer was no... Such is arrogance of absolute faith.