@Skipper : Religion is not necessarily child abuse, but it very easily and very frequently lapse into child abuse. So one might draw an analogy and say it might not be rape in itself, nor does it always rape at every opportunity, but it is a registered sex offender.
@Paul : Many forms of child abuse were not done with what perpetrator would consider malice. Those who pray in lieu of giving their sick children available medical care often commits the supreme child abuse of child murder. Those who prevent their children from receiving basic secular education out of religious convictions commits abuse that will scar the entire course of the child's life. In both of those cases the abuse came from no intentional malice. But in both of those cases, I would find it impossible to avoid condamning the acts as most aggregious of child abuse and demanding the severest punishments on the prepetrators to reduce the occurrence of such behavior amongst religiously afflicted parents.
@Paul : Many forms of child abuse were not done with what perpetrator would consider malice. Those who pray in lieu of giving their sick children available medical care often commits the supreme child abuse of child murder. Those who prevent their children from receiving basic secular education out of religious convictions commits abuse that will scar the entire course of the child's life. In both of those cases the abuse came from no intentional malice. But in both of those cases, I would find it impossible to avoid condamning the acts as most aggregious of child abuse and demanding the severest punishments on the prepetrators to reduce the occurrence of such behavior amongst religiously afflicted parents.
