[of the 78 children buried in the church's cemetery since 1955, 21 died from treatable diseases. The Followers of Christ came under intense scrutiny in 1997 and 1998, when three children died after their parents denied them basic medical care.]
21 out of 78 since 1955? That means that 57 out of 78 died of completely non-treatable means, as in they fell on their heads or got hit by cars. That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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And on a similar note, people keep going on about how Hitler killed 6 to 10 million people.
But what about the millions he didn't kill? Huh? Did all of you "liberals" ever think of that?
Of course not, because it's stupid and vile. and so is farmer Joe
Nearly one in three of those child deaths was completely preventable by standard medical practices, and you consider that "pretty reasonable"?
Go back to the days of the Black Death, you hateful lackwit.
I might try that one when I'm on a murder trial. "yeah, but the other 5,999,999,999 people didn't get murdered!"
In other good new, only 0.05% of the population of New Orleans died during Katrina, 18,970,457 people in New York survived the collapse of the twin towers. Only 1% of all soldiers send to Iraq come home in a body bag. 2,5 billion people didn't die in WorldWar 2 and even more didn't die in Nazi gas chambers.
In historical news, at least half of europe survived the Plague and most people in Afrika don't die of aids.
The world is doing great!
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Yeah, or a accident could happen, like he falls on his head a few times or a couple-a cars come run over him. Could happen, I'm just sayin'... like ... he wouldn't need a doctor or nothin'.
What's unreasonable is that the diseases were easily treatable, meaning someone didn't treat them.
I don't think you understand, see:
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"21 out of 78 since 1955? That means that 57 out of 78 died of completely non-treatable means, as in they fell on their heads or got hit by cars. That sounds pretty reasonable to me."
Even one is too many you moron. Denial of basic medical treatment over religious belief is tantamount to murder. This whole "respecting religious beliefs" bullshit goes waaaay too far if you ask me.
27% of their children die of completely treatable diseases. Out of the other 57, who knows how many were questionable. But your perfectly fine with that.
Funny how atheists seem to care more about fundie children than the fundies do. I mean they're evil sinning scum once their out of the womb, aren't they.
One...hear me, here and now, just ONE child that dies of treatable disorders is appallingly high. You have, in that sentence, revoked your right to rail about how "ABORTIONISTS ARE TEH BEBBIE KILLERZEZ!" too.
21 out of 78? pffftt 78 dead children? pffftt
I wonder if Joe has some personal knowledge of this head falling and car hitting bidness. Soiunds like a movie mid western hit man, you know, "A guy could have an accident. He could, oh, let's say fall down the stairs and break a few legs, land on his head. Under a car. A black one."
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