I really hate fundie fucktards.

[Thor]

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.

Yes, the mother let the child die. Because she believed the tenets of a particular religion. Someone tells you from a young age that you must follow certain rules or you will burn in hell when you die. This crap has been pounded into your head since you were a toddler. You believe this crap because everyone you know believes it. You feel as though you have no choice but to follow these rules. (You don't want to burn in hell for eternity, do you?) As a result of following these rules, your child dies.

And you want to give the religion a free pass?

Apparently you think all human beings are weak-willed, spineless *explicitive of your choice here*s who can't even think for themselves.

Not at all. If anything, it's BECAUSE these people are so strong willed that they let their children die.

The woman had the choice to reject or accept the ideas presented to her.

Yes. And in her mind, rejecting the ideas would have resulted in something worse than her child dying. Because this is what she had been taught.

Even though the ideas were imbecilic in nature, she still accepted them. That's her fault, not the religion's.

Yes, it's her fault for accepting the ideas. But the religion shares the blame for promoting these ideas.

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.

But what if those ideas aren't believed to be foolish? It is not uncommon for young Muslims to strap bombs to their body and blow themselves up in a crowd of strangers. They think that what they are doing is good and that they will be rewarded in the afterlife. Would they be killing themselves in this way if a religion were not filling their heads with bullshit? Take away the religion and the behavior is radically different.

Imagine that your kid goes to your local public school. Throughout his entire education the school system tells the kids that it is your patriotic duty to blow up gasoline station owned by Muslims. On your kid's 18th birthday he decides to become a "true patriot" and he blows up a gas station owned by Muslims. Your kid is arrested. Would you not blame the school system for putting garbage like this into your kid's head? Or would you hold the school system blameless?