Judging Faith or Conventional Medicine To whom should we judge, doctors or christian parents? Many people, including laws judge Christian faith, especially when an ill person makes the decision of refusing medical treatments and believe on God's healing. People think that many ill people could have survived if they had turned to conventional medicine. However, we should never forget and accept that there are many people that have died believing in conventional medicine. Could not they have survived with prayers, too? The story of Amy Hermanson, who died because her parents believed only in christianity, tells us how parents are judged. According to the Constitution, they did wrong when they just were aiming to help their child by
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And we have to accept that sometimes when we have the intentions to do good, we do not find a solution for the situation. However, we still have other ways to find a solution for the same problem. In the case of healing someone it is more complicated. For example; Amy Hermanson and her parents believed on something but did not work and she died. In this situation there was no more opportunities to try again and find another solution. I agree that Amy had the right to be taken to a doctor and have access to medicine, but I also believe that parents also had the right to do what they thought was good for child. This is part of the rights, in the Constitution, they as parents have. They have the right to choose on what to believe. They are free to choose the religion they want to follow. In my opinion, people can not be judged just because we think they should, especially when knowing that their intention was not to kill someone. They have the right to believe on medical healing or christian healing. They are free to choose the treatment and the religion they want to follow as long as their intention is to do good. Of course not all the time people will have good intentions with their believes. That is why we have to gather enough and valid evidences before judging a
And we have to accept that sometimes when we have the intentions to do good, we do not find a solution for the situation. However, we still have other ways to find a solution for the same problem. In the case of healing someone it is more complicated. For example; Amy Hermanson and her parents believed on something but did not work and she died. In this situation there was no more opportunities to try again and find another solution. I agree that Amy had the right to be taken to a doctor and have access to medicine, but I also believe that parents also had the right to do what they thought was good for child. This is part of the rights, in the Constitution, they as parents have. They have the right to choose on what to believe. They are free to choose the religion they want to follow. In my opinion, people can not be judged just because we think they should, especially when knowing that their intention was not to kill someone. They have the right to believe on medical healing or christian healing. They are free to choose the treatment and the religion they want to follow as long as their intention is to do good. Of course not all the time people will have good intentions with their believes. That is why we have to gather enough and valid evidences before judging a