Minister's wife starves herself to death

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Nicole on March 13, 2010 at 8:01pm

Is it sad that I'm jealous she lost thirty pounds? >.>;;


If she had chosen not to eat because of Body Dysmorphia, she would be forcibly hospitalized for her own health. And then forced into therapy. However, because she claimed it was for religiosity, she was allowed to risk her own health. It's ridiculous the double-standards that exist for religion, but at least in this case, she was the only one directly harmed. She didn't seem to force her children to starve fast or anything.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon P on March 19, 2010 at 7:38pm

If she had harmed someone else in the process, I might be upset.

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Permalink Reply by Objection on March 19, 2010 at 8:48pm

The world needs more sensible insensitive pricks like you. God bless you. God bless atheism. R'Amen.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle on March 19, 2010 at 10:28pm

Boyd said his wife had gotten "a little chubby" before her last fast, about 170 pounds.
Evelyn Boyd was obeying what God told her to do, John Boyd said. "God called her home."

Is it me, or does the husband sound a bit callous? For such a young woman to die like this is just sad. When it is for such a nonsense reason it is infuriating.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Kramer on March 19, 2010 at 10:58pm

What bothers me about this incident is not just that the wife behaved stupidly thanks to religion, but that everyone around her did too... and for the same reason. Husband, family, friends and neighbors all knew what she was doing but gave her a free pass to do what any thinking person would have known was a recklessly dangerous thing to do (fast with nothing but water for 3 weeks), done in an even more recklessly dangerous manner (unsupervised), simply because it was done as a religious act.

That's what makes religion so insidiously dangerous. Not that it made one woman do crazy shit, but that it made all those around her unable to see that it was crazy shit.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Thompson on March 19, 2010 at 11:12pm

This is another fine example of how religion values suffering, followed by death, and how the delusional are perfectly accepting of that course.

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