(February 26, 2010 at 4:30 pm)Alex Wrote: *nods*
Yes, that was her justification. She could have also done it for political reasons, etc.
Except that no political ideology demands that you deny yourself or your children medical treatment because it's "the will" of an invisible man who lives in the sky. In fact, I would challenge you to come up with ANY "political reason" that someone could use to justify starving their child to death.
Quote: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.
Except that the video games aren't an established institution. Religions are.
Imagine that your kids went to school and they were taught that it was their patriotic duty to set fire to gas stations owned by Muslims. They then set fire to such a gas station on their way home from school. Wouldn't you blame the school for your child's actions?
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
