Unbeliever!!!
I used to know a guy called Phillip.
Phillip was a fairly normal guy, we went to school with each other and kept in touch after school as we went about our lives doing the "growing up" stuff.
He was raised mostly happily by both his parents and got on fairly well with his older sister. He didn't really go in for drinking, philandering or any real law-breaking type activities (that I knew of). The only real blip on the "Slightly Different" radar was that his parents were members of a church that held some beliefs that were not always run-of-the-mill. Phil was a member of this church too and truth be told was probably far more adherent to it's strictures than his parents.
One of these strongly held beliefs was that modern medicine was a sham, a device controlled by the devil to thwart God's will. The church believed (very strongly) that the only way to cure a serious illness was thru the power of prayer and that if that failed then it was simply God's Will.

Anyhoo...
Phillip met a nice girl, Janene at uni, they married and after Phil had been quite strict about pre-marital sex Janene managed to pop their son Digby out about 10 months after the wedding. Digby seemed like a fairly normal bub. Of course he was born at home safely with the aid of a church sanctioned mid-wife and received no immunisations whatsoever. Janene didn't share Phil's beliefs as strongly (she had to convert to get married) but she was prepared to toe the line because she loved her hubby.
That was until Janene noticed one day that Digby had a fairly bad sniffle. He felt hot and was clearly in a lot of discomfort. Now before she met Phil, Janene had been a 3rd Year Vet. student, so she knew enough that this was serious. Weighing up her husbands beliefs against the health of their child she made a choice and took him to the local emegency room. Where her hubby called her, found out where she was, turned up and in the midst of castigating her and accusing her and the hospital staff of being agents for the Devil took his son away and left the hospital. Despite them trying desperately to convince him that his infant son probably had meningococcal meningitis (they hadn't yet had a chance to test) and that with treatment he could easily survive and flourish. All of which fell on deaf ears.

Apparently Digby died in Phil's arms a couple of days later. Due to God's Will.
Janene never really forgave Phil and a few months later told him exactly where he could stick his fucking beliefs as she packed her bags. Even Phil's parents expressed their disgust at the fact that he had allowed their grandson to die a slow, agonising death simply because someone had preached to Phil long ago that medicine was evil.
Phil stood steadfastly by his church and their beliefs, sometimes one of the congregation would feel sad for him and try to console him with the thought that his son rather than being raised by a pair of loving parents was now throughly ensconced in the bosom of the very being that had brought about his horrible death in the first place.

Last year Phil was diagnosed with Stage 3 Pancreatic Cancer. Which of course is a test of his faith in God by Satan. He was diagnosed after he was involved in a car accident (God's Will) where he sustained some head injuries (a test of faith) and spent sometime in hospital ncm. As soon as he was awake and upright he was out of there - being nurtured & given strength by The Lord Our Father.

I'm going to toast Phil at his grave. Toast him and his pointless beliefs that brought him more suffering than any demon of Hell could possibly dole out.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 26 Apr 2013, 0:12, 10 replies)

You are either embelishing your life's experiences or you
truly have been acquainted with an endless series of right proper cunts.
I think this is pointless existence and/or needless death #5.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Fri 26 Apr 2013, 2:28, closed)

Unfortunately mostly column "B".
Now I'm just an autism, neckbeard shutin and you guys are my only source of companionship.

Scary thought.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 26 Apr 2013, 3:06, closed)

Shut the fuck up and touch my winky

(woocfot friends with Sacha Distel, Fri 26 Apr 2013, 3:18, closed)

That would come under the "Premium Services" heading on my website.
The winky touching I mean. I'll shut the fuck up for free.

Just not for you. ;-P

Oh sorry, sorry, I forgot.
alright cowfoot?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 26 Apr 2013, 4:19, closed)

Since you're counting
can you give me the other 4?
Please.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 26 Apr 2013, 6:33, closed)

I would have thought that denying medical treatment to a sick child,
against the wishes of the child's mother, would have some legal consequences. Particularly if this course of action led to the death of said child.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 26 Apr 2013, 9:06, closed)

^^ This
Surely the permission of the mother alone was enough?

Also, I'm assuming that Phil's a christian scientist?
(Lord of Marzipan Fact: Clouds are worse than Hitler, Fri 26 Apr 2013, 12:38, closed)

I believe that it's legal to refuse medical treatment if it's on religious grounds.
Although I admit I can't remember where I heard that, so I may have made it up or dreamed it.

Edit: With the mother wanting her child treated it might ne one for the courts to decide. Again I may be making shit up.
(Thor McLegend FUCK SHITPANTS PAC MAN, Fri 26 Apr 2013, 12:40, closed)

I don't know what legal stuff went on between Janene and Phil
but unfortunately Digby died well and truly before any of it would have been seen by a magistrate. I couldn't even say what he died of as the church's view was that even an autopsy would have been sacrilegious.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 26 Apr 2013, 13:13, closed)

its

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 26 Apr 2013, 11:51, closed)