They should be treated the same way we treat junkies, alcoholics and the like for 'unintentionally' killing there children for the sake of there addiction.
Hmm, then would you advocate for making religion illegal (like with crack, meth, herion, etc), or regulated in some way, like is done with alcohol?
Or should people be free to do it as they please and we just punish those who break the law with it?
That is they should be criminally prosecuted.
Seems like it would be hard to define a line between what is considered "child abuse" and not "child abuse."
Is refusing a blood transfusion child abuse?
What about parents who teach their children YEC, tell them that they are born sinners, that they have to ask for forgiveness, that they are being watched by an invisible entity, is that
emotional child abuse?
How about
Jesus Camp, would you consider that child abuse?
What about the Polygamist, are they exposing their children to things that may emotionally fuck them up?
And, who will be the one to decide all of this? To draw the line between "child abuse" and normal religious practice?
Or, would the best thing to do is just make it illegal?
- Oni
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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