How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?

[Belacqua]

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I have not denied that some acts done in the name of religion can be child abuse. Everybody knows that's true. 

Do you think that such abusive practices are essential, or representative, of religion? If parents raise a child in a religion without those practices, is it child abuse?

Is any child raised within a religion abused? If so, should the parents of that child be punished? 

If you point to the worst examples from a worldwide, wildly varied phenomenon, and declare that they are the very definition of that phenomenon, it may not be a balanced interpretation.