Let's roast this motherfucking pea!
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 emergency 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 thoroughly 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.

UPDATE: Phil died. I kinda felt sad for him. I don't think many other people did tho. Except for some of his fellow congregation members. They were probably a bit disappointed that God wasn't listening to their prayers. Oh well, better luck next time....
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 12:47, 18 replies)

Holy Shit. Literally.

(PockGibberty Likes to satisfy his Quimlust!, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 12:51, closed)

Wow!
Good story well told.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 11 Oct 2013, 13:31, closed)

Auto-complete is well lol.
You clearly meant to type 'old lie rehashed drearily'.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 12 Oct 2013, 19:59, closed)

Another expert on the veracity of this story
enters the fray.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sat 12 Oct 2013, 20:40, closed)

Poetic justice.
Still no silver lining though :(
(immadme, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 13:58, closed)

Hmm.
Fair to say it falls completely in the "Lose-lose" scenario.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sat 12 Oct 2013, 6:38, closed)

Natural selection at work.
A bit of Darwin must really rub it in.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 11 Oct 2013, 15:31, closed)

He bred
His sprog died without putting (1/2)his genes back into the gene pool.
While I am genuinely sorry for his kid's death, I can't help but think his is a dead end of evolution*.

* Clearly not evolution, has to be God's will. FFS
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 15:38, closed)

Good, the fucking murderer.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 15:58, closed)

Fucking hell
that is all
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 17:16, closed)

in the UK
he'd probably have been jailed for allowing or causing the death of a child through gross negligence. Law's about the only viable defence against darwinism. Law and heavy calibre weapons.. Law, heavy calibre weapons and surprise... Law, heavy calibre weapons, surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the..

No wait I seem to have tuned to a different channel
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 18:14, closed)

Are you as slow as Rob? The story is a lie. Any amount of logical reason goes out of the window.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 22:51, closed)

Since you were clearly there and know so much more than I do about the situation -
please do elucidate.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 23:06, closed)

Elucidate it is a fucking lie. Clear enough now.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Sat 12 Oct 2013, 12:28, closed)

Settle Petal.

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sat 12 Oct 2013, 19:39, closed)

I have met people
who have these sort of beliefs, and find this story quite plausible. They're out there, believe it.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 13:00, closed)

I actually really wish I could say it was untrue.

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 13:31, 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.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sat 12 Oct 2013, 6:30, closed)