A small thanks to the resident Theists..

[Mystical]

Well, yeah, I concluded that the first encounter I had with Drich. See I personally don't think most Christians are well read in the Bible enough to know what it is they're submitting their lives to. They just take the positivity the book has to offer and roll with it. Which is fine. There's positive benefits to abstaining from alcohol, for instance, if you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. The Bible provides a coping method through prayer, but there are untold amounts of coping methods. That's why people religious and non religious alike are able to get clean.
The problem is that the leaders of their faith HAVE read the Bible in its whole entirety and are the ones dictating the policies their followers must abide by. Followers in all walks of life who have jobs that affect our society.

When it comes down to it, I concluded that the Old testament may write about another time period, but existential rights never change. The fact that the god of the Bible did pander to 'the times' proves that either :
A. a man wrote that shit, or
B. god is evil.
Therefore in the New testament when Jesus says he doesn't come to abolish the law of the Old Testament, then he too is guilty of such atrocities and cannot possibly be who he says he is. Yet again, written by man to fortify the beliefs of it's Creed.
I think it's only once someone such as Drich or JohnV have been made aware of these facts and choose to back the tucked up doctrine of their god despite this: that mental illness comes into effect. I can't imagine that Drich would actually bash a babies head across a rock and be happy about it, but the fact that he'd do it and feel justified in doing so because a Book says so is pushing past the borders of sanity.