Reply #2: Faith Healing [View All]

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But her attorney, Gene Linehan, immediately said Neumann will appeal the verdict, partly because a defense expert on faith healing was barred from testifying.

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I was raised in a fundamentalist church which believed in faith healing. However, whenever someone got sick they received traditional mainstream medical care in addition to the prayers.

It is hard for me to imagine someone who would let their child get so sick they would die.

When my 34 year old daughter was 6, she became ill from what we thought was a virus. For several days, she appeared to have the virus. Then, after she became weak, we took her to the doctor. He smelled her breath and said "This child is a diabetic.". At no point did we consider that faith healing, alone, would have been the solution.

In retrospect, I wish we had taken her to the doctor sooner. However, it wouldn't have made any difference with her condition. With our health care system, it can be a difficult decision to make, deciding whether a condition is serious enough to go to the doctor.