Another infant dies due to belief in faith-healing

Christian faith-healing is proven false by the mere ex-
istence of hospitals. (AP Photo/Jason Decrow)

The Associated Press reports a baby born prematurely to a 24 year old mother who belongs to a Christian sect which believes in the Bible's promise of faith-healing has died.

The mother belongs to Followers of Christ Church in Oregon City, Oregon. People in the church said the mother experienced complications and the baby was born about six to eight weeks premature. The baby boy lived for about nine hours and died of pneumonia and complications from premature birth. 15 month old Ava Worthington, whose parents also belong to Followers of Christ Church and who also did not seek medical care for their child because they believe in the Bible promise of faith-healing, also died of pneumonia in March of 2008.

Christian faith-healing churches want to win converts. If the Bible promises of faith-healing were true, there is no doubt that faith-healing would win millions of new followers for Jesus and Christianity. However, faith-healing does NOT work. That is why these babies die. It's very plain and simple: if faith-healing worked these babies would be alive and healthy. Since these babies are now dead it means the Bible promises of faith-healing are nothing but an ancient superstition and a fraud which are still taking the lives of innocent children even in the 21st century.

Even those who promote faith-healing for others don't rely on it for themselves. For example faith-healing televangelist Pat Robertson recently had 10 hours of heart surgery when he became ill, and Christian faith-healer Joe Daugherty is in the hospital for cancer treatments. I guess they didn't want to go to heaven just yet! Like the Black Oak Arkansas song says, "Everybody wants to see heaven, nobody wants to die." These clergymen are reminiscent of  the Christian preacher referenced by a Confederate Civil War soldier, Samuel R. Watkins, in his memoirs, Company Aytch. Watkins said a preacher was trying to encourage the Confederate soldiers as they marched toward the battlefield by saying not to fear for if they fell in battle that day, they would have supper with the Lord that night. Just then a Yankee cannon ball landed near by. The "reverend" spun his horse around and took off for the rear and the rebel soldiers joked that the reverend wasn't that hungry!

Is it time for people to let go of their unreasonable ancient deadly dogmatic religious beliefs and instead embrace their God-given reason before more innocent children fall victim? They have an alternative to their ancient Middle East "revealed" religion, an alternative that is in line with their God-given reason. That alternative is Deism.