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page | Quotations, Summaries & Descriptions Here’s a place for you to capture important quotations from the text you are reading. - Transcribe important details, sentences, and phrases.
or - Summarize key ideas, events, and information from the text.
| My Questions and Comments Here’s a place to ask questions, speculate, and comment on the quotations. - What questions do you have about what you are reading? You can ask questions to clear up confusion, or as a tool to get more deeply into your inquiry about a text.
- You chose important ideas and information from the text. Why are they especially important. Give your thoughts.
- Why are specific quotations and details significant? What is their significance?
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Campbell | “...were not from esoteric entities but ordinary ailments seen and treated routinely in community medical centers. Deaths from dehydration, appendicitis, labor complications, antibiotic-sensitive bacterial infections, vaccine-preventable disorders, or hemorrhagic disease of the newborn have a very low frequency in the United States.” | - Why did people who were close to someone who is ill wait and watch them suffer until they die?
- I think an important piece of information in this text is when it says that ”were not from esoteric entities but ordinary ailments seen and treated routinely in community medical centers” because this is saying that people who died trying faith healing could have survived because medical centers deal with these kind of things routinely.
- Specific quotations and details are significant because these are cases that affect peoples lives especially the lives of the people who are at risk of death. They are significant because they are real problems that holds Religion responsible.
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wikipedia | “to require that a State find, or to prohibit a State from finding, abuse or neglect in cases in which a parent or legal guardian relies solely or partially upon spiritual means rather than medical treatment, in accordance with the religious beliefs of the parent or legal guardian.” | - What goes through a parents head when they allow their child to suffer then die slowly.
- I think the State would be unable to find any signs of abuse or neglect because the parents or guardians refuse to take their child to a hospital.
- The details in this quote are significant because there is almost no way a doctor can confirm or report abuse or neglect because they can’t just go to the child a check them for bruises, dehydration and the like. This is very significant because if a doctor can’t tell a parent that something is wrong with their child then they may never actually know.
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Psychology today | A lot of medical problems can be cured with just your mind alone. Placebo accounts for half of the effects of non surgical medicines for example sugar pills are one. Some say that with these odds faith healing could become a trillion dollar industry in the U.S. | - What part of the brain gets most active when placebo occurs.
- I think that it is pretty amazing that the mind can heal the body through placebo.
- I think where it says “some say that with these odds faith healing could become a trillion dollar industry in the U.S.” is just crazy, a trillion dollars just for believing that your better.
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Campbell | Most mainstream Christian traditions have come to the conclusion that the biblical passages in question cannot be understood as providing literal instructions to be followed in all circumstances with an assurance of healing and thus have made accommodations for professional medical treatment within their theologies. | - Why do faith healers take healing so literal but not any of the other things the bible mentioned like giving up your house to the poor or giving up all your possessions to someone who needs it more than yourself?
- Some important information in this text is that it is saying that biblical passages cannot be understood.
- I think something in this passage that is significant is still that biblical passages cannot be understood.
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wikipedia | Reliance on faith healing to the exclusion of other forms of treatment can have a public health impact when it reduces or eliminates access to modern medical techniques. This is evident in both higher mortality rates for children and in reduced life expectancy for adults. Critics have also made note of serious injury that has resulted from falsely labelled "healings", where patients erroneously consider themselves cured and cease or withdraw from treatment. For example, at least six people have died after faith healing by their church and being told they had been healed of HIV and could stop taking their medications. It is the stated position of the AMA that "prayer as therapy should not delay access to traditional medical care." | - I wonder if people know about this kind of information, and if they do why are they not spreading it around especially to people who is trying to get healed by faith?
- I think an important piece of information in this text is when it says “ Reliance on faith healing to the exclusion of other forms of treatment can have a public health impact when it reduces or eliminates access to modern medical techniques. This is evident in both higher mortality rates for children and in reduced life expectancy for adults” because this has an impact on the lives of people who wants to believe in God.
- Specific details in this passage that I think are significant is when it says that people died after faith healing after being told by their church that they were completely healed and could stop taking their medications.
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Psychology today | If there is a history of successful outcomes, then people who consult the faith healer are likely to show up because they already have a positive expectation of cure, even if they consider themselves too sophisticated to be taken in by magical thinking. | - Does placebo takes effect when people have facts or just anything that can help remove doubt?
- I think just having a positive expectation about some things which change the outcome of someones life or circumstance is kind of awesome.
- Some significant details in this part is that no matter who or what you say think or believe you are you are not too sophisticated to be taken in by magical thinking, just not literally magical.
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Campbell | It is the connection of these two points that makes the theodicy of eschatological consolation suspect, even dangerous. The background assumption is that parents can make an assessment that a child, who might well have been treated by medical care, is perhaps better off dead than alive if the choice enables the child to enter an afterlife free of sorrow and sickness. This is precisely where the “martyr” language from the Prince case is poignantly relevant: a martyr chooses death when they could opt for life in order to bear witness to their religious convictions. In the case of a child, however, death is being chosen for them to fulfill the convic-tions of their parents. The child then cannot really be a martyr but must be understood as a victim. | - Why would someone have a child if they are going to be disposed of or sacrificed as a tool for religious conviction?
- I think a part of this text that is especially significant is “ a martyr chooses death when they could opt for life in order to bear witness to their religious convictions” a child that don’t fully understand the the decision that they or their parents are making cannot be used as an example of faith.
- What they say about child martyrs is extremely significant because they are using children as lab rats to achieve their religious goals.
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| According to the American Cancer Society: ...available scientific evidence does not support claims that faith healing can actually cure physical ailments... One review published in 1998 looked at 172 cases of deaths among children treated by faith healing instead of conventional methods. These researchers estimated that if conventional treatment had been given, the survival rate for most of these children would have been more than 90 percent, with the remainder of the children also having a good chance of survival. A more recent study found that more than 200 children had died of treatable illnesses in the United States over the past thirty years because their parents relied on spiritual healing rather than conventional medical treatment. | - Why are faith healer telling people or believe that they can heal these physical ailments when they know they can’t.
- Some important information that I think would be impactful to people is the part where it says that researchers found that there were more than 200 cases where a child died from a curable illnesses due to faith healing.
- I think some details that are significant are without a doubt the numbers of deaths of children which should make parents cautious about taking their child to a faith healer and realized that their child shouldn't be apart of the 90% of children that could have survived but instead be apart of the 10 that does.
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Psychology today
| By means unknown, faith healing is evidently capable of boosting immune function. This would explain why minor lesions clear up faster than would otherwise be the case. If placebos account for half of the effects of non surgical medicine ( which may be too conservative) faith healing may be a trillion-dollar industry in the U.S.. | - Why would faith healing boost a person's immune system?
- Some important information that I think can add some clarity to people is, Yes faith healing does boost a person's immune system through the body reacting to a positive reaction in your brain called placebo and, No it does not fix broken bones, the immune system is not directly connected to your bone structure so placebo won't work therefore unlike biblical times where God's presence was more clearly noticed faith healing won't let the blind see, won't let the crippled walk, won't let the deaf hear, and so on.
- Something in this that I think is very significant information is because doctors allow the brain to become a healing factor faith healing could become a trillion dollar industry.
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Campbell | The most common form of interpretative theodicy articulated by members of faith-healing communities appeals to some variation on the idea that faith healing failed because of human sinfulness. In some instances, affliction with what proves to be a fatal disease is attributable to sin by the parents or within the community. For example, in the 2009 Wisconsin case over the death of Kara Neumann, her mother testified that sickness has a spiritual root cause (Starck 2009). In rare instances, it is not the parents but the child who is deemed responsible for disease from their sins (Peters 2008, p. 11). | - Why would a child be deemed responsible for the sins of the parents or the community if the God they worship is merciful?
- Some important information in this part of this article is that the mother of Kara Neumann testified that sickness has a spiritual root cause. Does that mean the the mother, father or community sinned and God took it out on Kara?
- A significant quote in this text is where it say “The most common form of interpretative theodicy articulated by members of faith-healing communities appeals to some variation on the idea that faith healing failed because of human sinfulness.” because the bible says that ALL HUMANS ARE SINFUL so based on what they say, why do the even try.
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| A group at Johns Hopkins published a study in 2011 reporting no significant effects on pain, mood, health perceptions, illness intrusiveness, or self-efficacy, but a small improvement in reported energy in a double-blind study to test the efficacy of spiritual exercise in chronically ill adults. | - Is this saying that they took chronically ill adults and let people try to heal them through?
- I think an important idea from text was that a group are a school studied the different moods that ill people felt while being “healed” I makes me want to act like I’m healing people just to see how the react.
- Some that they said in this that was significant to what I’ve been researching is where it says that there were no reporting no significant effects on pain, mood, health perceptions, illness intrusiveness, or self-efficacy, but a small improvement in reported energy.
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Psychology today | From a scientific perspective, faith healing is unexplained, incomprehensible, of course. Scientists recognize that there are placebo effects but have trouble accounting for them. | - Why do Scientists think faith healing is unexplained and incomprehensible?
- I think a scientific opinion on faith healing is really important and should be more reliable than just saying that they “recognize that there are placebo effects but have trouble accounting for them.”
- Something that was said in this was that the couldn’t recognize where the placebo effects.
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