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He's Mennonite. They don't believe in any English medicine/science. If someone dies, it's God's will.

... he's a Mennonite, lot of them won't even use the internal combustion engine. It's one of those low-tech sects of Christianity like Amish.

Ah yes, the Electric Amish.

Ha, I got interested in researching what exactly Mennonites are, and funnily, the German Wikipedia article has, in its very introduction, this disclaimer:

In den Medien gibt es immer wieder Berichte über Mennoniten in Nord- oder Südamerika, die einen sehr konservativen bis weltabgewandten Lebensstil pflegen und die in der Regel einen deutschen Hintergrund haben. Diese Gruppen stellen jedoch nur einen kleinen Ausschnitt aus dem mennonitischen Spektrum dar, in dem es auch viele modernere, angepasstere und liberalere Gemeinschaften sowie viele andere ethnische Zugehörigkeiten gibt.

Translation by me:

"In the media, there are regular reports about Mennonites in North- or South America, who have a very conservative or even withdrawn lifestyle, who usually have German ancestry. These groups are, however, only a small section of the whole Mennonite spectrum, in which there are also many more modern, more adjusted and more liberal communities, as well as many other ethnicities."

Seems like your American Mennonite exiles are making the rest of the Mennonite world defensive.

I bet he was given the measles vaccine.

He must have been a sinner, in that case. Mennonites tend to have enough children to tend to a farm, then they have enough children to attend to those children.

It's not so bad if one is taken by disease, you just make another one and hope it's less weak.

Women love bearing children, so it is they who are blessed in the end.

/S

They fought a war to keep slavery. TWICE. The only state in the union to do so

Everything is bigger in Texas, including my middle finger to Texas twice

At this point, I can't say I would blame him for still refusing to accept it on an emotional level despite all evidence otherwise. As stupid as it is, how might you cope with knowing you are the sole reason that your daughter is dead? That if it weren't for your arrogance, you would still have a child?

I don't agree with it, but I understand. I don't think I could live with myself if I accepted reality if I were in his situation. Shutting down might be his method of coping. It is a sad situation that was easily preventable.

do you understand how much this would destroy someone to acknowledge? that's why they're doing this. they need support to dismantle modern medicine, and that support will be built from tiny little coffins.

Because conservatives have been gutting education every chance they get throughout history. 🤷‍♂️

Downvotes from people who don't like this authoritarian stance.

Fuck em, this is one authoritarian stance I share. If your kid dies because you made the active decision to feed them nothing but fruit, you get arrested. If your kid dies because you made the active decision to leave them in a hot car, you get arrested. If your kid dies because you made the active decision to not get them vaccines, you should be arrested.

I see those few downvotes, but I agree with you.

Unchecked stupidity is dangerous, and even deadly as we see evident right here.

These people should not be allowed to make decisions for others.

Once Cheeto-Christ is allowed to rampage his way down his list of enemies, I'm sure the Amish and Mennonites are hovering just after 'gypsies' (Romani) in the Purge Order.

He’s a Mennonite. He’s intentionally ignorant of the modern world and murdered his daughter.