Author: Papa Giorgio

Update On RPT-My PAGES Are Growing

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Just so you guys and gals are aware… I have been working on my Pages. My most recent page that I added is

“eBooks & Audio“

which are library links to large collections of free books, many of which are required reading for seminary students who study church history and theology.  Although a lot of political books are not posted in totality, there is a collection that is politically based. There are also individual links to books I have enjoyed in the past. They fit a variety of situations or topics. You are more than welcome to email me — see the “BIO” page to email me. This page will grow like the “Quotes” page will.

 

I added the “Bloggroll” to save load time on the front page. I added a “Support RPT” to encourage you to keep me employed not by asking for $$$ but to get you a %%% off of merchandise which will keep me working in a buddy’s shop. I added the anti-conspiracy page “C-O-N Debunker” and of course added the “Quotes” page (which will always grow). Don’t forget the “Support” page if you feel like getting involved in supporting some causes or or troops, and the like. Also, if you want to suuport Israel in some way do not forget to go to the “Symbol” page. There are many orgs at ther bottom to get you to some solid places to support in some way Israel.

More Word of Faith Related Deaths Coming from The Followers of Christ Church in Oregon

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To read more on this topic and to start and look for help to escape such bad theology that leads to death instead of life, visit The Word on the Word of Faith’s group blog, especially their recovery forums.

Religion News Blog:

An Oregon City couple will face charges of second-degree manslaughter in the faith-healing death of their newborn son, the third such fatality involving the Followers of Christ church in the past two years.

Dale R. Hickman and Shannon M. Hickman, both 25, were booked about 1 a.m. Friday at the Clackamas County Jail. Dale Hickman’s father, Phillip Hickman, posted 10 percent of their $500,000 bail, and they were released about two hours later. They will be formally charged Aug. 30.

Their infant son was born in September, 2009, about six weeks premature. He weighed 3 pounds, 5 ounces and lived nine hours.

No one with medical training attended the birth, and no one called a doctor or ambulance. An autopsy determined the infant died of staph pneumonia and complications from a premature birth, including underdeveloped lungs….

….Members of the Followers of Christ church rely on Research resources on faith healing”>faith-healing rituals – anointing with oil, prayer and the laying on of hands – rather than secular medicine. Church members have testified that they would not go to a doctor or hospital even if it meant the difference between life and death, preferring to put their faith solely in God’s power to heal.

The Hickman and Wyland indictments underscore a pledge by Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote to aggressively prosecute church members who fail to provide necessary medical care to their children, as required under Oregon law.

Foote reached out to church members earlier this year, urging them to seek common ground that would assure that their children receive adequate medical care….

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