Reply #93: You don't have to convince me

[nadinbrzezinski]

but that is why it is called a belief

If you examine any religious belief, they are stupid at its core and unprovable.

Let me take one of the tenets of my faith. There is only one god and I cannot use images to represent him.

Now exactly how are you going to prove that one?

You can't.

Just as you cannot prove to a Jehovah Witness that taking blood is a graven sin that will lead to them burning in hell.

You have several problems here, first they base this on scripture... (yes a bad interpretation)

Second, taking that blood damns them to hell.

So dying, as horrible as it may be, may keep the soul pure and salvageable to the Lord when the final day comes.

In the end, arguing with religious belief is very hard, and why medical ethics has a hell of a time with these cases. When it involves adults in their full use of faculties, well people shrug shoulders and hope that they choose damnation (and life) over death. When it involves minors, you are placed in the awkward position of doing what you can for the kid. I have known of some dramatic actions by medical personnel that skirted not only medical ethics but the law itself...

And why these cases are always hell for medical personnel