I'd like to dedicate this post to Madeline 'Kara' Neumann, an 11 year old girl from Weston Wisconsin, who tragically died of untreated diabetes on March 23, 2008, due to her parents insufficient faith and unwillingness to pray harder. President Bush states in his 2008 National Day of Prayer Proclamation, that...
"As we observe this National Day of Prayer, we recognize our dependence on the Almighty, we thank Him for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us, and we put our country's future in His hands."
Clearly, Kara's parents, Leilani and Dale Neumann, failed to recognize their own "dependence on the Almighty," and for this their daughter deserved to die, ... slowly. If they had only prayed harder, called on more friends to help them pray, and sent more emails asking fellow christians around the world to help them pray, maybe this tragedy could have been avoided. Thankfully, these faithless parents are now being charged with second degree reckless homicide and are facing sentences of up to 25 years in prison.
Naturally, there are terrible people in this world trying to undermine the power of prayer, such as the malicious scientists behind this 2006 study showing prayer has no effect, and recklessly subjecting innocent people to crises of faith. Who cares if there's no evidence to support a belief in prayer? There's no harm in believing (except deaths of innocent children), right? And what about those heathens who support a National Day of Reason instead of prayer. How dare they challenge the establishment of a Christian Theocracy to replace the U.S. Government for the purpose of instructing all Americans which god to follow, and how, if they intend to testify on how taxpayer dollars should (or not) be spent. Really, of all the nerve.....
