(February 27, 2010 at 6:33 pm)Thor Wrote: As I said, I BLAME BOTH.Bullshit. You can't blame the religion for letting the child die. The mother let the child die. No one else. She is accountable only for her own actions, and her beliefs are her own, no one elses.
Quote:I blame the woman for being stupid enough to let her child starve to death. She should certainly go to jail.And so you've answered your own conundrum...
Quote:I also blame her religion for injecting fucked up beliefs into her head that made her think she was doing the right thing.Apparently you think all human beings are weak-willed, spineless *explicitive of your choice here*s who can't even think for themselves. The woman had the choice to reject or accept the ideas presented to her. Even though the ideas were imbecilic in nature, she still accepted them. That's her fault, not the religion's.
Quote:Obviously, we can't put the religion on trial because ultimately a person is responsible for their own actions. In this instance, I consider the religion to be the equivalent of an unindicted coconspirator.
I bolded where you pretty much reaffirmed my point. Ultimately, a person makes their own decisions, and whether or not they have the good sense to resist foolish ideas s up to them or not. If they can't resist stupid concepts, shame on them, not on the concept itself. You're basically asserting that there is no such thing as an individual and that we are all shaped by outside forces. Bullshit we are, the internal is the only thing wich makes you you, and your choices reflect who you are.