Resurrection Experiment

[Fae-wolf]

Mother Starves Son for Resurrection Experiment
April 2, 2009 by Daniel Florien

We’ve discussed what we would do if a god appeared and asked us to kill one of our children. We’d tell him to get lost and then get our heads examined. But if we believed in God and miracles, the request might not seem out of place — after all, in the Bible God did ask Abraham to kill his son as a test of faith.

Something like this happened recently to a Maryland mother.

She was involved with a Christian group called One Mind Ministries. Her son refused to say “amen,” during the meal prayers, so their leader, ”Queen Antoinette,” insisted the boy was possessed by a demon. The boy continued to refuse to say the magic word, so she said that God wanted to raise him from the dead. Which, of course, meant he had to die first.

So they put the child away in a back room and prayed — and left him there without food or water for over a week.

The boy died.

No resurrection took place. Any sane person could have told them this, because resurrections only happens in myths and fairy tales. But they were deluded and thought it could happen in real life — an unfortunate consequence of believing in miracles.

The mother has been charged with first-degree murder, but she has insisted on a clause in her plea agreement that requires the charges will be dropped once her son is resurrected. The clause has been accepted.

Amazingly, she still believes:

“She certainly recognizes that her omissions caused the death of her son,” Silverman said. “To this day, she believes it was God’s will and he will be resurrected and this will all take care of itself. She realizes if she’s wrong, then everyone has to take responsibility … and if she’s wrong, then she’s a failure as a mother and the worst thing imaginable has happened. I don’t think that, mentally, she’s ready to accept that.”

What a tragic lesson that deities can’t be relied upon.

If she had only trusted her God less and her reason more, perhaps her child would still be alive.

http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/04...on-experiment/

[Godslayer Jillian]

And people don't believe in miracles.

[Drake Dun]

The only reason this sort of thing isn't pandemic is that most "believers" don't actually believe. Think about it. If you actually believed that you were headed for paradise when you die, your fear of death would evaporate instantly. In fact, you would be positively thrilled at the prospect of it. Religious people diagnosed with leukemia would be calling up their relatives, trembling with excitement: "Guess what! I'm going to die soon!". And their religious relatives would be just as happy for them.

The reason things like that don't usually happen is that on some level, most people know how full of shit it all is. When you get someone whose grasp on reality is so tenuous that they manage to actually believe in religion, you get stories like this one.