Praying man let his daughter die

Religion . . . . pft, what a load of 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8180116.stm

The amount the bible contradicts itself is unbeleivable. . . . . Aethism for the win!

What a needless waste of life. As an Agnostic (still undecided) I respect others religions and how devoted they are to their respective religions. Althogh my grandperants are devoted catholics (and my dad was when he was growing up) I have had no desire to join the faith. Although the man in question obviously contributed to hid daughters demise.

"A mystic is a man who surrendered his mind at its first encounter with the minds of others. Somewhere in the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of independence that he renounced his rational faculty. At the crossroads of the choice between 'I know' and 'They say,' he chose the authority of others, he chose to submit rather than to understand, to believe rather than to think. Faith in the supernatural begins as faith in the superiority of others. His surrender took the form of the feeling that he must hide his lack of understanding, that others possess some mysterious knowledge of which he alone is deprived, that reality is whatever they want it to be, through some means forever denied to him."

"From then on, afraid to think, he is left at the mercy of unidentified feelings. His feelings become his only guide, his only remnant of personal identity, he clings to them with ferocious possessiveness - and whatever thinking he does is devoted to the struggle of hiding from himself that the nature of his feelings is terror."

Ayn Rand

Of course they're still in print. Yeah the Fountainhead is like vol. 1 and Atlas Shrugged like vol. 2. She's faced a lot of criticism because of what they claim is a very individualistic philosophy, she did say "Selfishness is a virtue" but if you fully read Atlas Shrugged you'll understand what selfishness she meant, certainly not the one toward your friends. Her philosophy is entirely compatible with my way of living and I don't ask anyone to judge nor do I try and convince anyone to adopt it.