I really hate fundie fucktards.

[Alex]

In all seriousness, religion gave that "mentally ill" person an excuse to allow their child to die.

*nods*
Yes, that was her justification. She could have also done it for political reasons, etc.

I mean, this is the equivalent of the kids who play violent video games then go and shoot up a school / do other violent stuff, and then a bunch of cranky old white men feel that the video games themselves are to blame, instead of, I dunno, the person being fucking stupid / crazy? Same with blaming violence on those damn kids and their rock 'n roll music.

Methinks, you have a seriously bad understanding of Eastern culture and history.

Enlighten me. Also,

Article 20 of the 1976 Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea guaranteed religious freedom, but it also declared that "all reactionary religions that are detrimental to Democratic Kampuchea and the Kampuchean People are strictly forbidden." About 85 percent of the population follows the Theravada school of Buddhism. Before 1975 the Khmer Rouge tolerated the activities of the community of Buddhist monks, or sangha, in the liberated areas in order to win popular support. This changed abruptly after the fall of Phnom Penh. The country's 40,000 to 60,000 Buddhist monks, regarded by the regime as social parasites, were defrocked and forced into labor brigades. Many monks were executed; temples and pagodas were destroyed or turned into storehouses or jails. Images of the Buddha were defaced and dumped into rivers and lakes. People who were discovered praying or expressing religious sentiments in other ways were often killed. The Christian and Muslim communities also were persecuted. The Roman Catholic cathedral of Phnom Penh was completely razed. The Khmer Rouge forced Muslims to eat pork, which they regard as an abomination. Many of those who refused were killed. Christian clergy and Muslim leaders were executed.

Extremist theism and extremist atheism are both very bad things, which lead to tragedies like this. Blaming atheism or theism itself is just stupid.