What happens when faith healing goes sour?
WHEN FAITH HEALING GOES SOUR A child is dead. And bad religion killed her. The little girl’s mother and grandmother forced her to drink a deadly combination of chemicals because the child was supposedly possessed by demons. The objective was to exorcise the demons from the tiny tot, but the result was the dead child was toted away and tossed into a dumpster. This incident just happened, but it is hardly unique and it has not been a long time since similar disasters have ocurred. Just a month ago a 12 year old diabetic perished because his parents refused medical care. They said that going to a doctor would exhibit a lack of faith on their part, which would prevent God’s healing. There are enough anecdotes of this nature to fill a very large, tear stained book. Some of us remember a local lady, now dead, who perished when she refused a blood transfusion. The Bible forbids the eating of blood and her church says that a transfusion would be the same thing as ingesting blood. There are man