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 Friendly Atheist ✏ Elizabeth Struhs' own parents denied her life-saving insulin, believing God would cure her. Then she died.

Instead, they all prayed for her to get better. It never crossed their mind that they could just attribute the discovery of insulin medication to God.

For six agonizing days, they chose “faith-healing” over proven medicine, believing that’s what God truly wanted, and the little girl eventually paid the price for their religious negligence.

Even more damning? It wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. In 2019, her parents withheld insulin from her as well. Elizabeth fell into a coma and had to be taken to a hospital. When she was admitted, she only weighed 29 pounds. She spent a month recovering.


Elizabeth Struhs in the hospital (screenshot via YouTube)

Jason Richard Struhs and Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs were eventually sentenced to six months and 18 months in jail, respectively, for that incident. Jason, who expressed remorse, served no actual time behind bars. Kerrie was released after only five months but remained on parole.

A few weeks after Kerrie returned home, Elizabeth was dead.

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 Friendly Atheist ✏ Elizabeth Struhs' own parents denied her life-saving insulin, believing God would cure her. Then she died.

Instead, they all prayed for her to get better. It never crossed their mind that they could just attribute the discovery of insulin medication to God.

For six agonizing days, they chose “faith-healing” over proven medicine, believing that’s what God truly wanted, and the little girl eventually paid the price for their religious negligence.

Even more damning? It wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. In 2019, her parents withheld insulin from her as well. Elizabeth fell into a coma and had to be taken to a hospital. When she was admitted, she only weighed 29 pounds. She spent a month recovering.


Elizabeth Struhs in the hospital (screenshot via YouTube)

Jason Richard Struhs and Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs were eventually sentenced to six months and 18 months in jail, respectively, for that incident. Jason, who expressed remorse, served no actual time behind bars. Kerrie was released after only five months but remained on parole.

A few weeks after Kerrie returned home, Elizabeth was dead.

Continue reading @ Friendly Atheist.

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