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Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen.

Malachi died from pneumonia and bleeding lungs, according to an autopsy.

It would have been treatable with antibiotics and newborn care in a hospital, said doctors who reviewed his death records for ProPublica.

But Malachi’s parents belong to a faith-healing sect that doesn’t believe in medical care, based on a literal interpretation of several Bible verses. The Followers of Christ sect believes that God heals the faithful and that life and death must be left to God’s divine will.

When the coroner’s deputy lifted Malachi’s body to take it away that night in October 2023, there was no wailing or sobbing from his parents. Malachi’s father stood quietly as his mother hung her head and rested it in her hand.

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Well, see, a snake told a couple to eat some fruit a long time ago, so now we're all born with a sinful nature. Something something free will.

Children and babies can’t make their own decision to rely on faith healing. Kangas said their parents must keep them away from the doctor to set an example, so the young ones won’t be cursed later in life by turning to medicine.

Kangas lost his own wife and their last child during labor 23 years ago. Three of his 65 grandchildren also have died.

Babies are being sacrificed to yahweh. It's a fucking death cult.

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