Dale and Leilani Neumann Sentenced to Jail

Dale and Leilani Neumann decided to pray instead of sending their child Madeline Kara Neumann for medical attention after collapsing in their home. She had an undiagnosed and treatable form of diabetes. The couple will receive 6 months of jail time and 10 years of probation their negligence. Read more about the story here.


You have to wonder, had they ever heard of anyone they know praying when very sick and then coming through? Did they not think about all the sickness and disease in the world, or did they think that all those that stay sick or die just didn’t pray enough? Surely, if you think God answers any prayers at all, you have to be concerned whether he will or not with your sick child, keep a backup plan of actual medical care.

Examples like these are great for forcing people to really get their hands dirty with respect to other people’s religious beliefs. Tolerance and acceptance of others is key to religious peace in our day and age when religious beliefs are still common. That said, we are forced into difficult situations when blatantly bad decisions are made through religious thinking. Just as it is tragic when Jehova’s Witnesses refuse blood or organs, it’s such a shame when religion with good intentions ends up killing people through ignorance. While we may let people carry out a strange form of unintended suicide when adults, we feel a need to step in and blame when it’s the case of a child dying because of the parents’ beliefs.

October 17, 2009 | Filed Under Power of Prayer 


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2 Responses to “Dale and Leilani Neumann Sentenced to Jail”

  1. MicheleB on December 23rd, 2009 9:54 pm

    Ya know, I get that y’all don’t like Christianity and creationism. Well, I am a Christian and a creationist. And seriously, I used to know these folks personally (in California). What you maybe don’t realize is that if they HAD gotten the sentences this act deserved they would have seen themselves as God’s martyrs suffering for “the cause.” They would have seen it as confirmation of their righteousness.

    I too wanted the full weight of the law to fall upon them. But in lieu of that, the fact is that they have lost a child. However vindicated they may “feel” by the court’s leniency, nothing changes that. And the God I believe in has a lot longer memory than the jurisprudence of our day.

  2. Darmanos on March 29th, 2010 8:40 pm

    Hi,

    You don’t have to be fucking atheist to know that you have to go to the doctor when you’re sick.

    Her parents were sent to jail because their ignorence caused the death of their daughter and NOT because they were praying, bunch of ignorants!

    So stop deforming the truth. The last entence of your post shows how stupid, ignorant and worthless you are. Seriously, you need to read some stuff, or maybe you need to read the right stuff.

    I don’t wish to the likes of you to find the right way, because people like you are ruining this world and don’t even deserve to be part of it.

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