[GalacticDomin8r]

> It’s definitely not evidence of wide scale Christian refusal to accept death.

True if you are speaking only of the events you described. However you left out the national debate(and I use that word loosely) over the matter. That was evidence of wide scale Christian refusal to accept death. It took the typical form of the extremists appealing to and living under the shield of the larger group of religious believers who didn't exactly believe the same, but presumably felt some need to side with a "believer".

[learc83]

The national debate was mostly pro-life groups trying to spin the situation for political gain.

And even among those groups, I don't remember it being a common argument that she should live because God would miraculously heal her.

The argument was that (they believed) she was still conscious and that her life was still worth living.

[GalacticDomin8r]

> The national debate was mostly pro-life groups trying to spin the situation for political gain.

That is what I would call a distinction without a difference. The underlying motivation for those actors is still the same no matter you call it religion or politics. They appealed to the identity of the religious and largely got the response they wanted. Same thing Russia did with BLM except Russia was inciting both sides.

Christian's believe in miracles/supernatural by definition. This includes faith healing. It absolutely prevalent everywhere in the religion and its different sects. The Terri Schiavo incident was not specially exempt from this belief.

[jrnichols]

>I don't remember it being a common argument that she should live because God would miraculously heal her.

It was one of many arguments for continuing care. No, it wasn't the only argument, but I remember it being a fairly common one. I remember the dozens of websites popping up around the time and the frequent call for "prayer warriors."

there are still a few pages around, but a lot of them went away with the demise of Geocities, or just link rotted.