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For the Love of God: Children dying for God (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Lawrence Gold (Autore), Dawné Dominique (Illustratore) Formato: Formato Kindle
4,4 4,4 su 5 stelle 82 voti
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The plot for this book is not only superb, it is a 10 star work in that we have more than one mystery, and all of it is woven together so well, we never loose track. The characters are totally believable and so well written that I can relate to them all. This book grabs your attention and keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. 
If you enjoy medical drama, you’ll love For the Love of God, a novel that accurately depicts what happens when a cult denies sick children lifesaving medical care.
While this is fiction, the novel shows practices that continue to this day. 
Do not misconstrue this novel as anti-religious...it's against those who would sacrifice innocent children based on their own beliefs. 
An incidental and shocking discovery of a cave with tiny unmarked graves shatters the peace of Exton, a small town in upstate N.Y. 
More horrifying is the forensic analysis that reveals that these young children died needlessly as the result of neglect and abuse at the hands of a religious fundamentalist cult that disavows medical care. 
Fundamentalists and their political action groups come to the defense of the cult and the parents of the dead children setting the stage for the final courtroom clash to come. 
The sheriff, an investigative reporter, the local coroner and two forensic experts from Albany develop the case. When the county DA, a fundamentalist, resists vigorous prosecution, the Governor of New York intervenes and appoints Rosemary and Calvin Brandt to represent the State and speak for the dead children. These controversial attorneys and former fundamentalists have devoted their lives to the protection of children.
The final courtroom clash sets freedom of religion against the State's responsibility to protect innocent children.
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I was born in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, moved to Queens, and then, as New Yorkers say, we ascended to the Island. After graduating from Valley Stream Central High School, I went to Adelphi, a college then, a university now, and then to medical school in Chicago. The war in Vietnam interrupted my postgraduate training with a year in Colorado Springs and another as a Battalion Surgeon in Vietnam. I spent seven months in the Central Highlands with the 4th Infantry and five months in an evacuation hospital in Long Binh outside Saigon where I ran the emergency room. I returned intact in 1968 to complete my training in internal medicine and diseases of the kidney, nephrology. I worked for twenty-three years in Berkeley, California in a hospital-based practice caring for patients with complicated illnesses often in ICU and served as Chief of Medicine. My wife Dorlis and I retired in October 1995 and sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge for a life at sea in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Four years later, exhausted from repairing everything on board, (often many times) we sold the sailboat and within a year took the lazy man’s out; we bought a Nordic Tug, a trawler. We motored around Florida, the Bahamas, the entire East Coast and completed two ‘Circle trips’ to Canada and back, eight months, the first time, five months, the second. I wrote professionally as a physician to inform but rarely to entertain, at least not on purpose. First, Do No Harm was published in April 2007. No Cure for Murder, the original version, was released in August 2011. (both available in print and Kindle) In the last two years, I’ve written three screenplays based on my novels and hope to see one or more produced for the screen. I submitted my screenplay, Rage to the 80th Annual Writer’s Digest contest and won honorable mention (57 out of 11,000). We live in beautiful Grass Valley with 13 year old Mike, a terrier mix and Bennie, a 7 year old purebred Yorkie who, looks like he’s on steroids, but he’s not. Website: lawrencewgoldmd.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006R7I8F4
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Grass Valley Publishing (30 dicembre 2013)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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EMW
5,0 su 5 stelle Truly a Must Read book!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 dicembre 2013
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An excellent and important novel that entertains and outrages since it is based on a reality that exists in this country and which causes real deaths.

The author does himself and the subject matter a disservice with the lack of proper editing and I hope he'll see to fixing it. This book serves as a powerhouse example of what an indie author is capable of - and it lives up to the poor reputation indie authors have for less than perfect publishing standards. (Physician, heal thy book!)

I not only highly recommend this book, but I urge you to read it. You will be entertained, educated, and I hope, outraged. Maybe someday soon a sufficient number of Americans will become aware of and intolerant of the death of children by tragically misguided and ignorant parents and denying basic medical care will finally be outlawed in this country.
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Ajoobacats
5,0 su 5 stelle Gripping beyond belief
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 31 maggio 2013
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This thriller tackles some very difficult and controversial material. Writing about religion and politics is always going to be hard as you cannot please everyone but I think Gold tackles a lot of the issues with sensitivity and sincerity. Reading this book I did not feel Christianity, religion or spiritual beliefs were on trial but the best for those who are dependent on others to choose their welfare. The issues are deep.

This is a tough read as it deals with deaths of children, babies and abortion. The story comes to a crescendo once we are in the court room and the surprises keep coming. The character Daniel Zimmer is on trial and is malevolent in this book which I class as one of the most gripping reads for me this year.
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Hillel Kaminsky
4,0 su 5 stelle Denial of Medical Care to Kids and Reliance on Faith Healing is a Real Thing.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 febbraio 2014
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Several recent news stories have demonstrated that this barbaric and cruel practice is still going on today. It boggles the mind how parents can let their children die when they can easily be saved through medical intervention. The whole subject of cults is fascinating, especially when the brainwashing can overcome as basic an instinct as a parents need to protect their children.

Daniel is the charismatic leader of a cult of religious nuts who practice faith healing on their kids instead of taking them to doctors. Needless to say many kids die from easily treated diseases. When a cave full of graves is discovered, the parents of the kids and Daniel are put on trial. The cult takes the position that it is their religious freedom being put on trial (even though the Supreme Court has held that adults can kill themselves through faith healing, but they many not kill their kids by denying them medical care.) It seems a slam dunk case for the prosecution but things do not always go as planned especially when strong emotions and religious faith collide. I was very pleased by the ending, which I did not see coming following the outcome of the trial.
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Rita R. Swan
5,0 su 5 stelle a page turner with meat on the bones
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 maggio 2012
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Physician Larry Gold has written a very engaging novel about religion-based abuse and neglect.

From the first page the book plunges us into the middle of multiple mysteries. Gold's skillful use of details makes many characters come alive so we care about what is happening to them while we're also wondering how they will collide with each other and resolve the plot strands.

The cultic group responsible for the opening tragedy seems more extreme and isolationist than the faith-healing groups in the news today, yet Gold quickly backtracks to narrate and portray the journeys of characters to get to that point. We see their childhoods, the sociological and cultural factors impinging on them, their disappointments--and their behavior makes a certain kind of sense.

However comprehensible their behavior, it is of course wrong in its consequences for children. The epigraph quotes Ralph Emerson, "The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide" and quotes Galileo, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

The novel holds the reader's attention from dramatic beginning to unpredictable ending.
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Glenda
5,0 su 5 stelle PLEASE Consider A Must Read - On Faith Healing!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 18 marzo 2013
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The second novel I read this weekend by Dr. Gold just might be more traumatic to read than the first one... But fortunately, it does not happen as often--or at least I didn't think so, until I found the following on Dr. Gold's site:

If you believe that prayer for the sick to the exclusion of medical care is a thing of the past, think again...

God forgive us!

Words leave me as I now realize that Dr. Gold's story is based upon fact! I remember when, upon being diagnosed with clinical depression for job burnout, my older sister told me she'd take me for prayer at church...And I'd get over it...What she didn't know was that I had already called our pastor. When he and his wife came, they did pray, but they also sent me immediately to a doctor! I took that advice and went on immediate medical leave for exhaustion.

It is hard for me to understand how anybody could have a sick child and not immediately take them for all the wonderful care that is available to them. Please know that this book is detailed in describing these activities and people who are doing this. The important part, however, for me, was the trial portion. So I also consider it a legal thriller of importance!

A small farm had been established when Patricia inherited the land. Daniel and she had just left a church under duress, and they took those that had become to be known as followers with them...

It was only by accident that what was happening was discovered. Two fugitives who had escaped prison had come to their town and the sheriff went after them, finding the cave they were going to use after he'd killed both of them... When the crime scene investigators came, it was then that they entered the cave where the fugitives apparently planned to hide...and found the graves...

Ages ranged, but mostly they were all children. When the Medical Examiner and a Forensics Anthropology began the review of the bones, they not only couldn't believe it, but they later "demanded" that they both testify in court about their findings. All of the children could have been saved through relatively simple medical assistance...

While there's a romance between the sheriff and a news reporter, which lightens the book up a little, it still supports the overall story and they bargain with each other on what she can publish. Finally, she refuses to hold off and releases the terrible discovery of the bodies...but there was sooooo much more to discover...

Daniel might have at one time felt God's touch in healing someone he loved, but that had been a long time ago. Soon his intellect resulted in his own version of beliefs that may have had some truth, until he began to feel, perhaps, above God...or really believed God spoke to him in guiding his actions...

The legal actions taking place in the book were NOT about freedom of religion, but rather ignoring the lives of those too young, who could not make their own decisions...

Pictures on my blog, included are linked to the site mentioned in Dr. Gold's statement. If you have any doubt about legal issues regarding faith healing, please investigate further!

There were many reasons that I was reading until 2AM until I finished! If this review makes you at least curious to know more, I urge you to read For the Love of God!

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