Atheist Age

Dr. God & Red Clay for Cancer: “I’m still alive”

From Channel 7′s “Sunday Night” programme †. The appalling situation of young Tamar Stitt who whilst dying from hepatoblastoma || Wiki || [a rather graphic histological mutation & rapidly terminal cancerous growth in the liver] was whisked out of Australia by her deluded faithful Christian father to avoid medical treatment, and legal requirements to provide same.

Documents plainly spell out the living hell and painful death ahead for this innocent girl. Stitt wants to go to heaven, and will obviously kill to get there. Christian Jihad? Trevor Stitt – perhaps a few screams short of a tantrum – claims no “negative thoughts”, Dr. God and “special” red clay which “isn’t some mumbo-jumbo, sprinkling some dust and saying prayers” is the answer.

One is reminded of the fable of Abraham and Isaac. In this video we see a very ill child wise beyond her deluded fathers years. Her face almost speaks the verse, “where is the lamb father?” as Isaac the son, asked Abraham his father, who was about to sacrifice him to please his imagined god.
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7: And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

8: Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together. (Gen. 22:7-8)

Part One:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdJlndZ48FY

Part Two:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q4LWn_296c

There never was any lamb – just a lie to a child for the same sick irrationality today sustained by biblical fundamentalists across the globe. Without the compost of lying religious moderates in which fundamentalists germinate, their insanity and delusions we endure would not be as prominent.

Indeed. Where is the cure father?

Answer? I’m the one to be cured, child. You will merely die for this. God will provide.

How little changes in 4,000 years. “God did it”… again.

And Tamar’s fate? Whose father asked “Who am I to fight against it?” – “it” being God’s choice whether she lives or certainly dies under his abuse. Well, as was plain in his answer, this gig really has nothing to do with curing cancer by schlock hanky panky. This is all down to Trevor Stitt’s theopathological delusion that his fate, his daughter’s life and divine intent are linked.

Tamar died not long after the above was filmed, in San Salvador on November 12th, 2009. There’s an article here, from October 12th and a number of comments, spanning the time of death. They include input from Trevor Stitt whose limelight attraction stands in blinding contrast to the usual expressions of parental grief. Ultimately, his daughter’s demise and the socio-pathological insistence of perfection from meddling religious supporters played out in comments across many weeks. In the comment below, he slips up by admitting “the struggle is just beginning”, then stresses this struggle is not for his daughter’s life, but against “orthodox” medicine.

This is as close to an admission of manslaughter as I can remember in these cases. If we add all facts including the footage above, Stitt’s bumbling on camera image-coaching and overt defensiveness, one can identify a man clearly cognizant of the terminal risk and in denial of his own guilt as much as reality. His reaction to footage of specialists is one of disgust, fear and overt immaturity including an attempted walkout.

Comments [n = 39] from Australian couple treating daughter’s cancer with natural remedies:

Sam writes:

Unfit to be parents. I’m completely disgusted. If there is any justice in the world Tamir will be immediately removed from their custody and placed in social care where she will be in a position to be treated properly. To Tamirs parent: You are killing your daughter with your ignorance. Without treatment she will die, and it will be all your fault. I hope you spend the rest of your life in prison for murder.

T. Donnim argues a meandering yet revolting false dichotomy and proffers the personal incredulity typical of faith-crippled minds, topped off with appointing himself family apologist [bold mine]:

You people are all pathetic. If you knew this man as I do and knew what is happening in his family’s life, currently,besides their Beautiful Daughter’s tragic illness, you’d know about his actions. If the last person really does work for channel 7 (as they claim to) they’d know that the hotels were paid for by channel 7 (where their crew were staying) and on his early return for reasons known to him and immediate family and how channel 7 in a bid to seal their little box of lies, offered to pay for his hotel again in Los Angeles on his way home. Not everybody can make a long trip like that in one go. Yes he did give his younger Son, also going through hell, a visit to the kids attraction in LA to help bring him through, so what, this just demonstrates what kind of good father he is.

A lot of people, even some in his outer family circles are bitterley jealous of what this family has (Tamar’s condition aside) in faith, happiness and general stability. These people really need pity as do any other jealous folk with nothing better in life than gossip, backbiting and hateful jealousy. For them we should feel great pity. If you people want to do something positive for this family and what they’re going through then LEAVE THEM ALONE and let them deal with what they have to, in their way. The little girl is not in any harm and is actually responding quite well to her present situation and looking forward to coming back to Australia- Home- and having a stress free life with or without natural remedies. at present she is receiving both (small doses) of chemo along with natural nutrients, vitamins and supplements.
I have been asked by Trevor to deal with any situations like this from here as he is no longer interested in (as he says)negative behaviour, so will from time to time monitor these sites and relay to him and family pertinent info.Thanks Tsu.

the truth had written:

No trevor. i know exactly whats going on. Why don’t you tell the whole world the truth. Your pathetic ignorance will cost your daughters life. But then again what would you care? I’ve never known of a father who stays in a hotel while his daughter is dying …you’d think you’d want to be next to her 24/7. I pray that your daughter will survive. Just so that you know i work in channel 7 and i have let them know exactly whats going on.

MJ had previously written:

I would like to let you all know that Tamar Stitt is very Ill now and her mum has taken her to a Salvadorean hospital. She’s now receiving chemotherapy.

Trevor Stitt had written:

Hello to all of you, yes I am Tamar’s Father. Channel 7 came into our lives to supposedly portray 2 sides of the story, sadly they’ve lied and left out half the truth that they filmed. They were supposed to interview people (Doctors) and natural healers [ψ] who’ve cured people of cancer successfully, but “pulled the pin” on the interviews because it would topple their one-sided story. They also ommited to say that I trained at Guy’s Hospital, London and worked as an Operating Dept Practitioner in Anaesthesia in the UK for 10 years before coming to Oz in 1998,worked at Royal Marsden cancer hospital in London and so have quite good research engines at my disposal. I have seen “clay wraps” cure my Tamar of asthma at 2 yrs when PMH only offered steroidal inhalers, she’s never had an attack since. If 7 had’ve told the truth about what they saw without overdramatising the San Salvador situation and others for sensationalism, then maybe folks would know more of what we are doing for Tamar, who IS getting a little better each day. I have to say I don’t really know who you are Josie, you say you know us, do you have another name?

I guess the struggle is just beginning (and I don’t speak about Tamar’s condition here) those “orthodox”people will not be happy, google Roy Rife, see what happened to him. Remember Patch Adams? (a true story) didn’t fit in to orthodox practice, too happy, he had a proper bedside manner (taboo in today’s conventional medicine). “There are none so blind as those who will not see”- with the eye of faith you don’t only see, you begin to LIVE! Thanks to All who support us and also to those who don’t. [Source]

Ah. How sad. As suspected this is about Stitt’s “eye of faith” being more important to him than his daughter’s life, presumably because of what he thinks he can “see”. He is “alive” and well kicking back in a hotel whilst his daughter dies slowly in San Salvadorian heat. At least he’s right on one point – only faith can allow one to “see” when it is plain they are so very blind.

Pearl Jam in their hit song “Alive” [below], may have unwittingly penned lyrics to a much needed “spiritual visitation” that would, in Stitt’s mind, be entirely probable:

“Is something wrong?” she said
Of course there is
“You’re still alive,” she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be?
Is that the question?
And if so…if so…who answers…who answers…?

So what is happening here beside a seriously messed up arsehole killing his daughter? I touched on this last October and suggested ‘anosognosia by proxy’ may serve as a model for understanding what’s occurring. True anosognosia exists consonant with motor cortical damage that isn’t recognised by higher functions or even visual input. Specific regional strokes elicit such symptoms as denying an obviously paralysed limb is dysfunctional. The point, is that no amount of insisting the patient is wrong will by itself help.

The complex symphony that is awareness simply lacks a crucial “instrument” that contributes to perceiving and articulating movement. In recent years some psychologists and psychiatrists have extrapolated this approach to schizoid disorders – the patient’s reality is the reality we must work within. With emerging research indicating compromised analytical ability and propensity toward physically manifesting drug seeking behaviour this brings addiction into new realms of “choice” and “will power”. In the latter case applying the notion of anosognosia is most wise.

In cases of malignant religiosity denial of reality kept to oneself is really just faith – our most common cognitive detriment. Yet extending this denial – or anosognosia – such that one interferes and/or harms by proxy is disturbingly on the increase. What is far less clear is what – if anything – will be done about such quackery. Given the prior Howard government allowed a Standing Senate Inquiry chaired by Bronwyn Bishop with predetermined agendas to be hijacked by biblical fundamentalists, culminating in calls for the children of pot smokers to be permanently removed, one may be forgiven for thinking religion still commands default respect.

If we note that bigoted and homophobic extremists Focus on the Family now has command of Australia wide “How to drug proof your kids” programmes endorsed by Bill Shorten and many of our most senior D&A professionals, it’s axiomatic what reading between the lines tells us: God can get away with whatever those holding the purse strings demand. Either way, Trevor Stitt is a selfish Christo-criminal and now a killer of an innocent. At no time did he act upon his daughters needs. At all times he sought to place his own insane beliefs at the buffet table.

At a time when so many Australian Christians “rejoice” over a dead nun being made a mutant clone of a zombie messiah-savior, via a demonstrably outrageous claim about the origin of spontaneous remission, one wonders what they make of those who kill in their saviors name. Real Christians, right now killing innocents all in the name of their so-called Savior. The only “miraculous” outcome here is that Stitt remains at large.

You can check out an article by Maggie from early January at The Skeptics Book of Pooh-Pooh and gain valuable insight from a commenter [Oct. 14th] by the same name.

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YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhsYC4gKy4

† Covered by Young Australian Skeptics October 2009.

ψ Natural healers are not “doctors”, have no qualifications in medicine, cannot claim to be “medical doctors” and cannot practice any form of medicine.

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Tags: Alternative medicine, Faith Healing, Fundamentalism, Video