deconversionmovement:   Is Faith Healing Child Abuse? Two-year-old Kent Schaible died of bacterial pneumonia in 2009. His parents, Herbert and Catherine Schaible of Philadelphia, chose not to take Kent to a doctor, relying instead on faith healing, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Continue Reading  In short, faith healing is child abuse.  From the article:  A 1998 study from the journal Pediatrics found that of 172 children who died after their parents refused medical care, 140 of the deaths were from conditions for which survival rates with medical care would have exceeded 90 percent. The children's deaths resulted from treatable diseases, such as pneumonia, meningitis and insulin-dependent diabetes. In one dramatic case, a 2-year-old girl choked to death on a banana while her parents and other adults prayed for her recovery.    It's not faith healing it's faith hurting.
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