I was watching tv last night and on TVLAND (a cable channel that shows older tv shows from the 50's onward) they had some drama about this little boy who gets edison's disease.
His mom is in a cult called Satan Fighters. Now here's an interesting beleif system, is it based on a real cult?
They beleive when someone gets deathly ill, they are 'Angel Possesed' and that the angel is possessing the poor person to take him to heaven. God needs this person and so is killing him.
The satan fighters beleive that if you were to take the angel possesed [person to a hospital, Satan will control the doctors and make sure that the angel is killed and the person will go to hell when they die.
So the mom refuses treatment from the doctors because they will ruin her childs ticket to heaven. This is why I dont like the heaven beleif.
Cus if heaven is such bliss and so great, I would be doing a kind thing by sluaghtering innocent people so they dont have to suffer on earth but go on to a better place.
At the end of the movie, when the doctors finally find the kid who has been hidden so that they cant take him to the hospital, the mom is crying and telling her son 'we have failed..satan wins this time..im soo sorry you will not go to heaven.'
Crazy, and it could happen. Like taking blood transfusion will not get you into paradise, but dying over blood guarantees you to paradise.
After that was over I watched a facinating show entitled 'Wet Tight Tina and her playpals III: How low can YOU go?'
-Dan