Oregon faith-healing parents put their daughter at risk of blindness; themselves at risk of prosecution.

By , on 27 July, 2010

Timothy and Rebecca Wyland are strong in their faith that God will heal if you just ask him to. When their months-old baby developed a hemangioma over her left eye they didn’t bother to seek out medical attention for the child, but busted out the oil and started praying.

Now they could be charged with . . . → Read More: Oregon faith-healing parents put their daughter at risk of blindness; themselves at risk of prosecution.

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Boy dies from easily treatable condition while family prays for healing.

By , on 12 January, 2010

Here’s a story we’re seeing with more and more regularity. It’s from the Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy file and it involves a young man who’d be alive today if the people purported to care about him would have taken him to a doctor’s office. Instead the opted to pray for God to . . . → Read More: Boy dies from easily treatable condition while family prays for healing.

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Parents use of “faith healing” results in another dead child.

By , on 2 July, 2009

Yeah, I’m going to beat on that “What’s the harm in religious belief?” meme again. This time the harm befell a 15-month-old girl named Ava Worthington who died from a combination of a benign cystic hygroma on her neck that impeded her breathing and pneumonia. Both of her parents are on trial charged with criminal . . . → Read More: Parents use of “faith healing” results in another dead child.

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Thousands of idiots believe this Preacher can heal them and raise the dead.

By , on 11 July, 2008

Continuing on the topic of delusional True Believers™ brings us to this news item about a Canadian faith healer by the name of Todd Bentley who’s apparently enjoying quite a bit of popularity in Florida. He claims God has given him the power to heal the sick and raise the dead and the overly credulous . . . → Read More: Thousands of idiots believe this Preacher can heal them and raise the dead.

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