Good call, as it would be un-Constitutional. Using public funds, that is. Or, promoting it in any way.

I once read the account of a former Christian Science practitioner: People with terminal cancer would be lying in one of their centers in terrible pain, and they would send someone in to pray over them. When the screaming got too loud, they just pumped loud music over the sound system, so as not to alarm the other patients.

I remember someone else who was a reader at a Christian Science church. He started to develop rheumatoid arthritis, a horrible disfiguring and crippling disease. So long as he could still hobble around with a cane, he continued to lecture, and the church was very supportive, but when he gave it up and sought medical attention, they threw him out.

The founder of this church made exceptions for herself:

None of this should be taken to suggest that Mary Baker Eddy never herself used the services of a physician - on the contrary, she did regularly, even while teaching others that all illness was simply a consequence of inadequate faith. She wore eyeglasses, used a dental plate, and relied on morphine for the last years of her life because of gallstones. Eddy had all of her grandchildren vaccinated and even paid for her sister-in-law to have a mastectomy. She rationalized this behavior by saying that the world simply hadn't yet advanced to the point where the human mind and the Divine mind could easily achieve the sort of union necessary to eliminate illness. Thus, at least for some, the illnesses were not a result of inadequate faith.

atheism.about.com/library/g...cience.htm


Mark Twain's book on Christian Science:

www.classicreader.com/book/1286/2/

Who in their right mind would have put it in there in the first place?

Repeal Faith Exemption, Place Humanity over Dogma

Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Foundation Co-President

October 7, 2009

"The sentencing of the parents of 11-year-old Madeline “Kara” Neumann for their role in Kara's tragic death should galvanize our state legislature to ensure no other child will die needlessly in the name of dogma. Repeal the dangerous faith exemption shielding faith-healing parents from responsibility for the deaths of their children.

Unrepentant Dale and Leilani Neumann, of Weston, Wis., insist it would have been “disobedience to God” to seek medical evaluation for their acutely ill, diabetic daughter. It is fortunate the Marathon County District Attorney found an avenue to prosecute them for second-degree reckless homicide, but the exemption will be the basis for their appeal.

A simple repeal proposed by Wis. State Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, (known as LRB2190), has stalled due to attacks by the Christian Science lobby. The lobby is promoting a sham repeal by Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee that could result in Wisconsin adopting the worst law in the nation to shield parents.

Our state should not countenance child sacrifice as a so-called "accommodation" of parental religion. Prayers are no substitute for insulin. Kara could have been saved until the end, had her parents had the decency to take Kara to a doctor as she slipped into a coma after long, painful months of intense weight loss, sickness, and decline.

Place humanity over dogma. The only meaningful memorial to Kara Neumann is to repeal the faith exemption that killed her.

* The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., is a national association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics) that has been working since 1978 to keep church and state separate."

www.ffrf.org/news/2009/alneumannsent.php

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Any attempt to separate spirit from body results in medical failure.

In the Wellness Center on the Mother Ship, we treat the whole person.

Imagine how much money the politicians could squander on that?

Damn good thing they nixed it.