Parents in faith-healing case never considered calling a doctor OREGON CITY — Carl and Raylene Worthington told detectives that they never considered calling a doctor, even as their 15-month-old daughter deteriorated and died. “I don’t believe in them,” Carl Worthington said of doctors. “I believe in faith healing.” Raylene Worthington said that her religious beliefs [...]

This doesn’t really have much to do with religion, but this was quite interesting because a lot of religious people came out of the woodwork claiming god had saved this woman’s life by making her miss her flight. I guess they were wrong… Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash An Italian [...]

This article isn’t new (it’s from 2002), but… damn. Saudi police ‘stopped’ fire rescue Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers. In a rare criticism of the kingdom’s powerful “mutaween” police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering [...]

See, religion DOES improve our lives. That is, by “improve”, you mean “doesn’t improve”. Pilot who paused to pray in crash-landing sentenced to 10 years in jail A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by [...]

India temple stampede kills 147 A stampede at a hill-top temple in western India killed more than 147 people and wounded 55 others who had gathered to celebrate the start of a religious holiday on Tuesday, police said. More than 25,000 devotees were trying to reach the 15th-century temple through a steep and narrow pathway [...]

Col. Kauzlarich on Pat Tillman’s Death: … if you are an atheist and you don’t believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing… that is pretty hard to get your head around that. It’s nice to see what [...]

Faith-healing parents charged in baby’s death 15-month-old girl died from untreated infection, authorities say OREGON CITY, Ore. – A couple whose church preaches against medical care are facing criminal charges after their young daughter died of an infection that authorities said went untreated. Carl and Raylene Worthington were indicted Friday on charges of manslaughter and [...]