I really hate fundie fucktards.

[Tiberius]

ITT: A mentally ill person lets someone die through negligence, and it's somehow religion's fault.

Seriously guys, this is stupid. Using your logic I should say "atheism is bad, just look at Joseph Stalin!"

There is a direct connection between what the mother's cult beliefs were, and what she did to her child. You have no evidence to suggest that if she weren't a member of that cult, she would have acted in the same way. The only reason she did this to her child was because the cult leaders told her to, and have still brainwashed her into thinking that it was the right thing to do. This is why the cult are to blame. This is why religious beliefs *can* be dangerous.

Just because a cult causes the death of a child doesn't mean religion is to blame, I'll give you that, but it does mean than a specific religion is to blame, and it demonstrates how religious beliefs have the capacity to be dangerous, given that some of them are based on faith alone.

The logic "atheism is bad, just look at Joseph Stalin" is of the form:

P believes X.
P does bad things.
Therefore P does bad things because of X.

Whereas the logic for my position is:

P believes X.
X tells P to act in a certain way.
P acts in this way and Y is a consequence.
Therefore X is (at least partly) responsible for Y.