(April 17, 2016 at 12:25 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 17, 2016 at 12:23 pm)robvalue Wrote: I was shocked to learn that this is still legal in some parts of America. I really thought we had moved past this kind of thing.
How absolutely fucking disgusting.
Why would you be shocked. Even death caused by faith healing and not seeing a doctor is legal in certain states. Negligent manslaughter goes unpunished if you can make a case of your heartfelt belief.
Yup. We like protecting our "religious liberties" in 'Murrica. Where a parent has a right to beat their child with a stick or refuse treatment for a perfectly curable disease.
Where a kid dies from a fucking UTI, and no one gets charged.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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