Terrorism is not about religion

[whatthehey]

49. I smell porridge-sugar coming...

Let me guess, your thought is that anybody who does anything bad due to religious motivation has impaired comprehension and that this exculpates religion, no? I'd be happy to be proven wrong but let's check...

Are parents who don't give children medical treatment for religious reasons mentally unstable or just religious?

Are RCC prelates who shift around pedophile priests to areas with new victims instead of reporting them to the police mentally unstable or just religious?

Are people who subject their children to violent "exorcisms" mentally unstable or just religious?

Are people who attack and vandalize the property of atheists mentally unstable or just religious?

And for fun let's check consistency too. Most NTS peddlers suddenly start believing in the motivating power of religion when it motivates nice but extreme behavior (what is it I wonder in religion which makes it so powerful a motivating force for good but somehow unable to motivate evil in the slightest? Why do all religions seem to have this but no other ideology such as patriotism or political belief, where nobody ever challenges their ability to foment both good and bad?)

Are people who devote their lives to missions in unpleasant and dangerous places mentally unstable or just religious?

Are people who deliberately choose a life of poverty and restriction in monasteries and convents mentally unstable or just religious?

Are people who donate huge sums of money not from secular altruism but from a desire to demonstrate scriptural values mentally unstable or just religious?