Healthy Fitness Ideas

As reported by the Asso­ci­ated Press, on Fri­day, Brown County Dis­trict Judge John Roden­berg issued a deci­sion rul­ing that the State of Min­nesota had demon­strated a “com­pelling state inter­est” in pre­serv­ing the life of Daniel, a 13-year old boy, that was suf­fi­cient to over­ride con­sti­tu­tional rights of both the par­ents and Daniel to the free exer­cise of reli­gion.  Daniel has Hodgkin’s lym­phoma, and sev­eral respected doc­tors pro­vided tes­ti­mony that, con­sid­er­ing the stage and type of tumor, Daniel could have at least an 85% chance of sur­viv­ing with chemother­apy but that with­out ther­apy he is cer­tain to die of his dis­ease, except if  a very rare spon­ta­neous remis­sion of Hodgkin’s occurs.

Already, the rul­ing has sparked out­cry from reli­gious groups and con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tors.  But what isn’t widely-reported is that the reli­gious belief is based upon Nemen­hah, an internet-based reli­gion whose web­site requests a $250 “Spir­i­tual Adop­tion” dona­tion and what­ever sub­se­quent monthly finan­cial con­tri­bu­tion a believer wish to make.  The leader of Nemen­hah is a white man who describes him­self as a natur­opath and Native Amer­i­can “healer” with cures for AIDS and can­cer.  Surely free­dom of reli­gion is cher­ished in this coun­try, but com­mon sense dic­tates cau­tion when a reli­gious leader has his hand in your pocket while promis­ing a mirac­u­lous cure.  While pro­fess­ing to be adher­ents of Nemenhah’s tenets, sup­pos­edly derived from Native Amer­i­can tra­di­tions, Daniel’s par­ents and Daniel are not of Native Amer­i­can ances­try.  As pointed out by NAFPS, because Native Amer­i­can teach­ings are trans­mit­ted face-to-face, any sup­posed Native Amer­i­can tra­di­tional teach­ings in touted books or on web­sites are sim­ply  “not authen­tic.”
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