I think that belief and faith in a higher power is a wonderful thing, unless it makes you obnoxious, arrogant, or stupid - and when your 11 year old daughter is laying nearly dead in bed for days on end and all your faith tells you do do is “keep praying” you’ve left the ranks of the faithful and entered the ranks of the completely stupid, if not the criminally insane.

Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from diabetic ketoacidosis, an ailment that left her with too little insulin in her body, and she had probably been ill for about 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

The girl’s parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, attributed the death to “apparently they didn’t have enough faith,” the police chief said.

They believed the key to healing “was it was better to keep praying. Call more people to help pray,” he said.

The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected, the police chief said.

At some point along the way even the most faithful believer watching their child waste away in front of their eyes should have had at least the passing thought ‘hey, maybe {insert name of deity of choice} is tied up with other things and we should give this medicine thing a try and see how it works out‘ instead of hanging their child’s life on what it says in some often mistranslated book.

- and while we’re on the subject of stupidity

The girl has three siblings, ranging in age from 13 to 16, the police chief said.

“They are still in the home,” he said. “There is no reason to remove them. There is no abuse or signs of abuse that we can see.”

(emphasis mine)

No reason? I should think that simple fact that these two have already let one of their children die while they were out rounding up a few more of the faithful to help them pray for her should be reason enough to take the other two and put them in a sane environment and safe from their parents stupidity.

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