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In unsurprising news - she’s a fundie.

Six weeks ago, Ethan Moran Lopez was like most 7-year-olds — spending the weekend riding his new bike or playing Minecraft on his iPad on a rainy day.

“He just learned how to ride, he got the hang of it right away,” Ethan’s dad, Luis Moran Lopez, said proudly. “He wanted to go outside because he wanted to jump on his bike it was an amazing thing for him.”

Instead, since late January, the schoolboy has been confined to a hospital bed with measles encephalitis, a complication that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain. “He’s pretty much as if he was paralyzed,” his devastated father, 41, told The Independent in a phone interview from his son’s hospital bedside.

Ethan’s parents decided not to immunize him against measles as they did with his three brothers. Three out of four of them contracted measles. Still, despite Ethan’s ordeal, his mom stands by their decision. “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina Moran Lopez. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we’re gonna glorify his name regardless.

  • lamassu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina Moran Lopez. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we’re gonna glorify his name regardless.

    This sounds like she’s “blaming god”. The vaccine was available to her child. She made the decision to not have her child immunized. This is her fault.

  • EatPotatoes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    “Our biggest reason why we didn’t do it is just with all the unnecessary stuff they add into it,” Kristina added, referring to her beliefs about the vaccine. “With my own eyes, I have seen the damage it does to kids who are perfectly normal, and then once they get it, they’re not the same anymore,” she claimed.

    Who is putting in all the “unnecessary stuff”, why is all the “unnecessary stuff” being put in? If they believe such evil exists, then why aren’t they martyring themselves for all children? Instead of experimenting with their own?

    It’s just bring out the reddit atheist in me when they talk about their son walking again. Him being trapped in his body is terrifying enough but he is fundamentally a different person now. Not a straight personality change but a thicking time bomb of untold lifelong horrors. The idea of souls becomes so meaningless when you see the personality changes and loss of control an acquired brain injury brings on. It’s an abstract nostalgia people depend on especially with grief.

  • hellinkilla [they/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    There was a story from texas measles outbreak where the parents said the same thing, I swear word for word. Obviously they are being inoculated (ironically…) very well. Would love to know how this is being done.