Reply #5: Not guilty by reason of religion [View All]

Now, if there's a brain tumor that triggered all this, perhaps it would have been identified earlier if we didn't have a wacky societal habit of giving a blank check to all weirdness that allegedly stems from religion. If memory serves, she was also part of a christian cult with a domineering leader.

If religion is taken out of the equation, insanity is much easier to identify. When the supernatural of spirits and voices is held as unassailable, dangerous people don't get help or get isolated from the rest of us.

How many fundies have to kill their children before someone takes action? The answer is that they could all do it and our collective fear of questioning the big Sky Chief would be such that it still couldn't be addressed.

Religion will destroy our species, and as we go down, there will be an ever-increasing set of excuses for it.