ldsfaqs wrote:And people die all the time doing similar things that have nothing to do with religion.... There is no "malice" or evil here needing to be condemned.
That makes you bigots, trying to make the church "evil" in some way for simply going on an outdoor hike/activity.
If you all can't get that, then there is no hope for you. Evil has full control over your souls.
No, people do not die all the time doing similar things as reenacting pioneer handcart treks in full pioneer gear from their tippy heads to their tippy toes on 95 degree days during the summer to prove how faithful they are to a fringe religious cult.
Going on a hike in weather like that suitably dressed with plenty of water and in top physical form would still have been a bad idea, during a heat wave. Anyone using plain common sense would know to take it easy during a dry hot spell, where even under the best of conditions it places people at greater risk of heatstroke and death.
What's different about the Mormon outing was the extent they tuned out common sense about their clothing, their own physical condition, and the degree of heat they were in. Most all of that very poor decision making was preventable, in other words. The fact it's an organized church activity places the church in a position of liability for sponsoring the pioneer trek in the first place. It was bad judgment from the top of the decision making ladder down to the plebs they sent to their death like this young mother of two.
They could have taken a rain check and rescheduled it after the heat wave had broken. It's called exercising common sense, along with due diligence. Apparently the two do not co-exist in your mentality or the Mormon mindset. And no, this kind of death does not happen by experienced hikers, and was very preventable. So where does the buck stop? You're blaming it on a twist of fate. That twist as you like to see it was stupidity. and sheer ignorance of the forces of nature.
Check out Ceeboo's post, quote:
PAWHUSKA, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma heat claimed the life an Arkansas woman this week. The 29-year-old died Monday of a heat stroke while at a Mormon church camp in Pawhuska.
Paramedics said they took five juveniles to the hospital for heat-related illnesses last week - three of those minors were unconscious when medics got to camp.
So not only the woman dies from the same camp, same week. There were five children taken to the local hospital for heat related illness, three of whom were unconscious when they got there.
This is not everyday occurrences, anywhere USA. Chalk it up to the stupidity of those running the camp, because this should have been stopped before allowed to continue. It wasn't an isolated occurrence as you choose to see it, but an epidemic.
