(February 26, 2010 at 1:15 pm)Thor Wrote:(February 26, 2010 at 1:12 pm)Watson Wrote:(February 26, 2010 at 11:56 am)Thor Wrote: And ANOTHER person dies because of religion. Just amazes me how a 12th century mindset can still exist in the 21st century.
Last I checked, religion did not kill that boy. A mother's stupidity and negligence did.
That aside, this is extremely tragic and that poor boy did not deserve what happened to him.
Religion ABSOLUTELY killed that boy. If the mother didn't believe the stupidity that was being told to her by religious morons her son would still be alive. And yes, the mother was stupid and negligent. But these things were motivated by religious beliefs.
These things were motivated by her religious belief, not by the belief itself. if she id not hold the belief, she would not have let the child die. That's the point. It was her fault she beleived what she did, not the belief's fault she belied in it.
Quote:This woman behaved the way she did because of her religious beliefs. If she didn't believe the religious bullshit she absolutely would have acted differently. So, yes, this death can be laid right at religion's front door. Think about it... this woman is the poster child for religion! She believes this crap so much that she let her child die!Again. She believes it, not the other way around. Are you seriously suggesting that the belief holds her, rather than that she holds the belief? That's ridiculous and shows that you can't be bothered to blame people's problems on internal error, but can only see external fault as being what motivates people.
Now, if you can direct me in that article to a group of priests/pastors/rabbi who stood over the woman and told her not to interfere the entire time with her child's illness, then I might say it was religion's fault...and yet, even then, it wasn't religion. It would have been a group of religious men.