I was so disgusted to hear they only use soap when hand-washing if feces are involved. I don't feel clean without liquid soap frankly. More weird cult-like 'natural' living practices. There's a lot of weird raw vegan YouTubers saying they avoid deodorant and use some natural substitutes and other people who say water is all you need to shower and bathe and don't need to use soaps and/or shower gels to clean your body.
It's pretty frightening to think Mia is being deprived of proper medical treatment for acne; I despair at the thought of people living in a cult-like atmosphere and they're cut off from the outside world and other views on things.
I know someone said Jehovah's Witnesses don't use medical treatment. As far as I know, it's Christian Scientists who believe that physical illnesses aren't real physical realities but illusions put by god and by praying we heal ourselves. Certainly not all CS people avoid medical treatment but there have been plenty of legal challenges if people have been harmed by not seeking treatment for a loved one.
There's some minor religion in Japan that has a similar belief in prayer rather than medicine.
As for Jehovah's Witnesses, they refuse blood transfusions because they're taking a quote from the Old Testament/Torah that says god commands people to not consume blood. Jews interpret this by draining blood out of eating animals before they're cut for meat pieces and JWs believe using blood transfusion is not Biblical. I know a lot of JWs use some other IV fluid instead of blood in situations where they need it.
Also, in religions, Scientology believes psychiatry, specifically, is an area of medicine that is not scientific, is a form of mind-control and money-making and causes huge amounts of harm to patients. So they teach that their practices are a substitute for psychiatric care.
It's pretty frightening to think Mia is being deprived of proper medical treatment for acne; I despair at the thought of people living in a cult-like atmosphere and they're cut off from the outside world and other views on things.
I know someone said Jehovah's Witnesses don't use medical treatment. As far as I know, it's Christian Scientists who believe that physical illnesses aren't real physical realities but illusions put by god and by praying we heal ourselves. Certainly not all CS people avoid medical treatment but there have been plenty of legal challenges if people have been harmed by not seeking treatment for a loved one.
There's some minor religion in Japan that has a similar belief in prayer rather than medicine.
As for Jehovah's Witnesses, they refuse blood transfusions because they're taking a quote from the Old Testament/Torah that says god commands people to not consume blood. Jews interpret this by draining blood out of eating animals before they're cut for meat pieces and JWs believe using blood transfusion is not Biblical. I know a lot of JWs use some other IV fluid instead of blood in situations where they need it.
Also, in religions, Scientology believes psychiatry, specifically, is an area of medicine that is not scientific, is a form of mind-control and money-making and causes huge amounts of harm to patients. So they teach that their practices are a substitute for psychiatric care.