A Spoon Full of Medicine Makes The Devil Rise Up

A young boy no more than three years old

Lays in a bed shivering cold

His body weak, his pulse as well

His eyes and throat beginning to swell

His parents knelt by his bed

The town's best healer touched his head

He grabbed his book, turned to the page

And read the words he'd told for an age

"Help us oh Lord" he said to no one, really

For prayer over medicine is oh so silly

But you have no logic, and your child just died

And people think that drugs make brains fried?

While it's been in the news a bit more recently, children have been dying for years as their parents, members of fundamentalist churches, believe in faith-based healing rather than modern medicine. These parents outright refuse to take their children to see a doctor when something as simple as insulin could have saved their child's life. Don't believe me? Go here. No, go... I'll wait.

Back? Right then, off we go.

These parents argue that because of their religious beliefs, they are innocent.

F**K YOU, YOU'RE NOT INNOCENT - YOU'RE STUPID.

The average age we live to nowadays is more than double what it was only 100 years ago. Now, I wonder what caused this jump... what could have changed in the past 100 years or so I wonder...

Oh wait, that's right - MODERN F**KING MEDICINE!

In the past 100 years, we've seen more advances in medicine and technology than in the previous known history of the Earth. Perhaps not so coinciden... ok, no, I can't finish that without laughing... 

Not so coincidentally at all whatsoever in any way, shape, or form, the percentage of Non-Believers has risen from being something that was not really discussed to about 15-20% of the world's population.

Thankfully, society is becoming a little smarter and realizing that religious freedom isn't all it's cracked up to be when you're some poor little kid with stupid parents who think that asking a god to heal their kid while the doctor is begging them to let him help the child. Parents are being charged with negligence causing death. One father tried to defend himself with this gem:

"We tried to fight the devil, but, in the end, the devil won" said the father of a recently deceased child.

Presumably, with his hands over his ears and his eyes closed.