For the faithful, of course. For people who don’t have enough faith, however, he just let’s them die right? If someone were to stay at home and pray instead of going to a doctor or hospital, that would show, at least outwardly, that he has the utmost faith that god will help him. Suppose he does have a little remnant of doubt that gnaws at him. God won’t do jack and he’ll die, much like the poor girl with treatable diabetes whose parents were too stupid, stubborn, or trapped by religious beliefs to seek real help.
If the sick person dies, everyone in the religious community can just say “It’s sad, but he wasn’t truly faithful. If he were, he’d be alive.” That’s essentially what people did when the girl died. Apparently the parents just didn’t have enough faith in god. If only they had faith in our knowledge of how the pancreas works.
Here’s my proposal: Everyone who claims to have the utmost faith in god and gets sick should avoid any sort of medical treatment and use faith instead. Provided they don’t have kids, it would certainly cull the population of crazies.
And don’t say that the hospitals and doctors work through god. That’s the same as saying that you don’t trust god enough so you’re hedging your bets by seeking tangible help. I work in health care and I’ve never asked god before doing anything, just consulted peer reviewed literature. Neither the bible, quran, torah, nor any other religious texts count as peer reviewed, not even with 12 apostles.
