That is the exact same kind of nonsense that would entrust the health of a young boy to the powers of a man in the sky instead of to the powers of modern medicine. If his throat swells all the way closed do we just drop down and continue to pray harder that it will magically stop? When he dies do we just pass it off as the will on a god, that the boy is in a better place now? What better place can he be in than surrounded by those that he loves? I think that the correct answer here would be that the doctors do their doctor thing and stick him with a breathing tube before it gets that bad. If it is already that bad you let the doctor perform an emergency cricothyrotomy and rock an awesome scar for the rest of his life. [...]