WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?   DFO 330C         2/75

         [HomeARC note (9/98): The current Charter articulates the Family's principles, policies and attitudes regarding faith healing and getting outside medical attention.]

         1. WHY DID WE START HAVING BABIES AT HOME & where were we?--We were in the U.S. where it COSTS a helluva lot & they don't let you be led by your CONVICTIONS, & you're surrounded by UNGODLY people & a SATANIC atmosphere!
         2. Now if you're in a country like THAT you can understand why our girls didn't prefer to be in an atmosphere like that. Besides the horrible expense, they dictate every little thing & are so terribly nosey!
         3. IN THE U.S. THEY CAN TAKE YOUR BABY AWAY FROM YOU at any little provocation. If you run into a hospital to have a baby at the last minute, they could call you an "unfit mother" & have your baby taken away by the courts! But it is not so in most of the REST of the World.
         4. MOST OTHER COUNTRIES ARE POOR & HAVE MIDWIVES, & they'll let you have your baby at home if you want to, as long as you have a midwife in attendance or somebody who knows a little about it, so in case you have a serious problem they can take you to the hospital--& it doesn't cost you a fortune!
         5. IN THE UNITED STATES IT IS ALMOST A SHAME TO HAVE CHILDREN AT ALL, MUCH LESS AT HOME!--But in most other countries of the World, children are still considered a BLESSING & they LIKE to have children. They still consider them a blessing of God & enjoy them.
         6. THE U.S. IS A DICTATORSHIP, ESPECIALLY ITS MEDICAL SYSTEM, & they don't give you any choice once you put yourself in their hands. You HAVE to do what they tell you to do, & if you DON'T, they can have you behind BARS!--It's the LAW!
         7. IN THE HOSPITALS IN THESE OTHER COUNTRIES THEY GIVE YOU YOUR CHOICE: If you don't want to be cut, they don't cut you. But in the U.S., if you don't comply with everything they do, then you have to sign a release taking responsibility for your life in your own hands.--And if they CAN, they'll RAILROAD it through, choice or NO choice!
         8. IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH COMPARED WITH THE POOR NATIONS OF THE WORLD, where you can have a baby at home & have it naturally any way you want, & where even if you call a midwife or go to the doctor or hospital it doesn't cost you a fortune--& they let your family come right along WITH you!
         9. THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS WHY I WOULD RATHER [NOT] GO TO ONE OF THEIR U.S. HOSPITALS!
         10. NUMBER ONE: THE WAY THEY HANDLE ANY KIND OF CASES--ILLNESSES, BIRTHS, WHATEVER--IS TOTALLY DICTATORIAL & you have almost NO choice whatsoever. You are compelled by LAW to do whatever THEY say. There are very few times when you have any choice whatsoever.
         11. Number two: The whole U.S. medical system is as anti-Christ as can be!
         12. NUMBER THREE: IT'S AS EXPENSIVE AS CAN BE & costs you a fortune, & for what?
         13. NUMBER FOUR: IT'S AS UNNATURAL as can be!
         14. NUMBER FIVE: THEY WON'T LET HUSBAND, WIFE, RELATIVES OR FRIENDS ANYWHERE NEAR YOU WHEN YOU NEED THEM THE MOST, when you're going through the worst of your crisis, & they don't even TELL you what's going on! Somebody could die & you wouldn't know until THEY decide to tell you, & they'd like to send you home & send you a notice through the MAIL so you wouldn't create a fuss!
         15. Number six: They won't allow anybody there to pray with you or encourage you, & they especially don't like people hanging around who have any FAITH or believe in HEALING or PRAYER!
         16. NUMBER SEVEN: I FRANKLY BELIEVE THAT FOR A CHILD OF GOD AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL IS DANGEROUS!
         17. BUT THIS ISN'T TRUE IN MOST OF THE REST OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD!--In fact, it's just the OPPOSITE.
         18. Number one: You do have a choice. It's not against the law in most countries if you want to trust GOD or if you want to have your baby at HOME. So there's nothing bad about going to a hospital in other countries where they are not so dictatorial & you DO have a CHOICE.
         19. NUMBER TWO: THESE OTHER SIMPLE HOSPITALS, DOCTORS & CLINICS ARE MUCH MORE NATURAL & less anti-God & Satanic--much more natural & closer to God's way of doing things.
         20. NUMBER THREE: IT DOESN'T COST A FORTUNE! It only costs $100 on the average to have a baby in some places whereas in the U.S. it's as high as $1,000!
         21. NUMBER FOUR: IN THE POORER WORLD EVERYTHING IS DONE MORE NATURALLY, but the whole medical system in the United States is anti-natural! Naturopathy is now illegal in the States. Pills are a moneymaking proposition!--And of course chiropractors are still looked on as quacks in much of the U.S.!
         22. BUT THE POOR COUNTRIES ARE NOT IN IT TO MAKE MONEY: They couldn't possibly make money off their poor people even if they tried! And in the U.S. they want all the money in advance for a baby delivery before they will even let you through the hospital door & before the doctor will even give you any prenatal care! In other countries it's FREE!
         23. NUMBER FIVE: IN OTHER COUNTRIES THEY'LL LET THE WHOLE FAMILY IN ON IT! In the poorer countries of the World you can have the whole family there to help with the delivery, & everything is so nice & natural, everybody takes part!--It's a totally different thing!
         24. NUMBER SIX: HERE YOU KNOW EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING: YOU ARE THERE! In the U.S. they keep you in total ignorance & don't let you know a thing about what's going on.
         25. NUMBER SEVEN: WE ARE MORE ACCEPTED IN THE POORER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. But the Americans know we hate their system & stand against everything they stand for, & they hate people who trust God for healing. In most of these other countries I don't think the doctors or nurses in hospitals have anything against us.--In fact, I think they kind of LIKE us 'cause we're friendly & trying to help poor people.
         26. SO I DON'T THINK IT'S ALL THAT DANGEROUS FOR US TO PUT OURSELVES IN THE HANDS OF THE DOCTORS IN THE POORER WORLD'S HOSPITALS where they're not in it for the money like they are in the States where they have such total power over you & power over your money.--And operations in the U.S. are so expensive!--If you ever have one & live through it, it will take you the rest of your life to pay for it!
         27. BUT IN THE POOR WORLD THEY DON'T CRAM MEDICINES DOWN YOUR THROAT & jab you with knives & needles if you don't want them! In some poor countries everything is so natural & normal there's hardly any infant or maternal mortality at all!--Think of THAT!
         28. TRAINED MEDICAL ATTENTION & SERVICES IN OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE POOR WORLD ARE THERE FOR YOUR HELP & SERVICE. They came to MINISTER, not to be ministered UNTO! Also, in many other countries of the World the health services are SOCIALISED & FREE to the POOR!
         29. SO I DON'T KNOW WHY OUR KIDS HAVE SUCH OBJECTIONS TO TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE NORMAL HEALTH SERVICES IN OTHER COUNTRIES: Midwives for children, doctors' advice & hospitals & clinics are equipped to handle things like births or various illnesses or mechanical operations for something that HAS to be done. So why shouldn't we be willing to take advantage of these very reasonable & very liberal & very convenient & well-trained medical services in OTHER countries?--USE the System! It's there FOR you!
         30. THEY'VE ALREADY GOT THE TRAINING & KNOW ALL ABOUT IT.--USE IT! In most other countries you'll find doctors, nurses & midwives your FRIENDS. But doctors in the U.S. have taken the place of God to Man!
         31. SO WHEN YOU NEED DOCTORS OR NURSES OR HOSPITALS OR MEDICINE, YOU SHOULDN'T HESITATE TO ASK FOR IT & USE IT! In most of the rest of the World they're not going to make you sell your SOUL or FORCE you or MAKE you do it if you don't WANT to like they do in the States! The thing that brought this question up was that you said we don't have enough girls trained for midwifery.--Well, that's what the SYSTEM is for!
         32. WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO TAKE MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING. WE have a BIGGER & more IMPORTANT job WITNESSING to the World, which the System doesn't WANT to do & WON'T do. We have a MESSAGE to give out & CHRIST to preach, & we can't take time doing things OURSELVES that the SYSTEM can do FOR us!
         33. WE NEED TO GIVE OUR GIRLS SPIRITUAL ADVICE, how to trust the Lord for birth & childcare, & all such good spiritual & practical advice as we can give them.
         34. I'M VERY PLEASED THAT SOME OF YOU GIRLS HAVE GOTTEN SOME GOOD CHILDCARE TRAINING & you can know if the doctor is doing what he should, especially in cases of emergency. By experience & faith you know what WORKS & what DOESN'T. But most times we should let the System handle it.
         35. I SEE NO REASON WHY WE SHOULDN'T GIVE THE PARENTS THEIR CHOICE of where & how they want to have their baby. I think we should tell them the advantages & disadvantages of BOTH home & hospital deliveries, & then ask, "Now what do YOU want to do?" I don't think we should influence them one way or the other, unless in SOME cases in some PLACES we feel this or that is definitely BETTER.
         36. MOST OF WHAT WE'VE WRITTEN AGAINST THE "SYSTEM" IS AGAINST THE AMERICAN SYSTEM.--There IS a DIFFERENCE! The same set of rules doesn't fit EVERYTHING or EVERY country or every person or situation.--There IS a DIFFERENCE!--And there's a GREAT DEAL of difference between the AMERICAN system & the systems of most OTHER COUNTRIES!
         37. EVEN SOME OF THESE SO-CALLED "GOOD" BABY BOOKS HAVE MAJOR POINTS IN THEM THAT WE CANNOT POSSIBLY AGREE WITH & THAT PROMOTE FEAR INSTEAD OF FAITH! If you advise using a certain book & then say, "Well, you can't necessarily go by EVERYTHING in it," then the poor kids will also say, "Well then how do WE know what's TRUE & what's NOT?" That's why you need to also say that "It's according to your OWN faith,"--Mat.9:29.
         38. WE CAN'T BE A DICTATORSHIP! If a girl wants to SQUAT down & have her baby, well why not? You can't pass rules or absolute laws to fit every country & local situation & individual!
         39. AS FOR JUST TRUSTING GOD, YOU'VE EITHER GOT THE FAITH OR YOU HAVEN'T!--You don't try to WORK it up!--You just KNOW. If you haven't got that kind of SUPERNATURAL miraculous faith, which it seems very FEW people HAVE, you'd better beat it to the nearest hospital & doctor & feel no condemnation about it!
         40. TO SUM IT UP VERY SIMPLY: In AMERICA you're at THEIR service.--You serve THEM!--Whereas in most OTHER countries medical services are at YOUR service & they are there to serve YOU!
         41. ONCE AGAIN: USE IT! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH USING THE SYSTEM. It's there to SERVE us with all the men, money, training & service we need, except the spirit. So it's just like any other mechanical thing: Just like we use their OTHER services, we should use their MEDICAL services. We don't have any objections against using their water, lights, gas, sanitary services, garbage disposal, sewage disposal, policemen & so on.--So why not use their MEDICAL services?
         42. SO PRAISE GOD FOR THE MEDICAL SERVICES OF OTHER COUNTRIES where there's still choice & the freedom & liberty to choose or not to choose!--Use it!
         43. BUT IF YOU ARE IN THE U.S., EVEN THE MEDICAL SERVICES THERE CAN BE BETTER THAN NOTHING!--Especially naturopathic, osteopathic, chiropractic, general practitioners, old-fashioned country doctors & smaller hospitals in rural areas--or even some of your welfare services! Don't just SIT there!--DO something! USE IT!


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